The following article appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 7, 2011 at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704415104576065202958261290.html?KEYWORDS=Vietnam+Plays+Rough.

Vietnam's government is attracting unwelcome attention after a security officer manhandled an American diplomat this week in the central city of Hue. The case is a warning to Hanoi of the challenges it will face in trying to forge closer ties with the U.S. to counterbalance China's influence in Southeast Asia.

The following interview took place on January 23, 2010 on CNN. It can be found at http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/12/22/ctw.greene.christians.persecuted.cnn.

“The worst place of all undoubtedly is Iraq, where there was a recent church bombing, but we’ve also seen church attacks and village attacks in Egypt. We saw the deportation of scores of Christians in the relatively moderate country of Morocco. There is a Christian pastor on death row for apostasy in Iran. And in Pakistan, now for the first time a Christian woman has been condemned to death for blasphemy.”