July 17, 2008
In April, the IHT/NYT columnist Roger Cohen gauged the public opinion of Asia in sweeping, clumsy strokes. While "Europe votes Democrat", he argued, "Asia tends Republican". Supposedly, Asians see the world more in terms of "classic balance-of-power equations, driven by the might and self-interest o...
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Are there factors informing your perception of China circa 2008? Novelist-blogger and researcher of worldly affairs Yang Hengjun moves on from ‘How did America cover up the truth of the bombing of our embassy in Yugoslavia?' to his post last week, ‘Are Western countries afraid of the...
go to article »July 12, 2008
DANWEI posts an article by Pete Sweeney questioning the U.S government's policy in blocking Chinese direct investment. ...
go to article »July 9, 2008
Today is a sad day in Africa, Robert Mugabe has been sworn in for a 6th term in a country that is falling apart. Some people even argue this fact which is beyond understanding since the numbers tell the story; 3 million Zimbabwean refugees live in South Africa. That is 25% of the countries populat...
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June 14, 2008
The 16 months debate with all its melodrama shifted to the upper level and strategists and thinkers all over the world are trying to decipher the mind of Barack Hossain Obama, 46, the democratic hopeful of the US Presidency. Whether he will take along the existing policies or even favour more or put...
go to article »June 11, 2008
The price of oil increased significantly on Friday, climbing to $138.54 a barrel with the possibility of the price reaching $150 a barrel in July according to analysts at Morgan Stanley. This is not surprising given that summer is peak driving time for many Americans, but what happens after summer,...
go to article »May 31, 2008
From inside and outside China, concerned citizens are helping, and putting their hands out to help the victims of the devastating 7.9 in the Richter scale earthquake that leveled out industrial cities, transforming them into refugee camps where people are living under plastic bags, trying to find o...
go to article »May 8, 2008
Kaie pointed out that the devaluation of U.S dollar becomes everyone else's problem [zh], especially for China as Chinese capital has been flowing around the world. ...
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