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In Le Monde Diplomatique, Martine Bulard reports on the rise of India and implications for both China and the US: India’s trade with the US rose to almost 11% of the Indian total in 2005-6; trade with Russia, which was formerly its main partner, was only just over 1%. India wants a lot more. Stunned […]
Read MoreFrom New American Media, a Q & A about environmental issues facing China: China is becoming increasingly aware of the demands unsustainable development will place on its environment and the impact that can have on its own economy and the world. But lax regulations and weak enforcement still bedevil its environmental policy says Peter Navarro, […]
Read MoreA boy flies a kite in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, by captainava
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The execution of Saddam Hussein, however, has stirred feelings in this part of the world as nothing else has since the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. East Asians have no particular brief for Saddam. He was not a great friend of any government in this region, and his passage here […]
Read MoreForeign Policy Magazine article uses the shooting of Tibetan refugees by Chinese border guards as an example of the so-called “YouTube effect”: A video shows a single line of people slowly trudging up a snow-covered footpath. A shot is heard; the first person in line falls. A voice-over says, “They are shooting them like dogs.” […]
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