Bullying Barack Stakes Rising on Pres-elect’s First Test (China Post, TAIWAN)

Barack Obama campaigned on the promise of “change,” but one change the president-elect may be planning on — not deploying a U.S. missile defense in Eastern Europe — would be a big mistake.

Indeed, it’s exactly the type of about-face that nations like Russia, Iran and North Korea hope for from the incoming administration.

Worse, it will likely be seen abroad as knuckling to Russian bullying.

Two weeks ago, just a day after the U.S. elections, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made a virulently anti-American speech — his first major address since taking office this spring and arguably the first foreign “test” of the president-elect.

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