The European Union’s tough new stance on immigration and asylum policies has ramifications for the region’s labor shortages, coming demographic crises, and adherence to the rule of law. Brussels-based journalist Shada Islam writes that perhaps the most controversial aspect of this new stance is...
In the current financial crisis, the world has pinned its hopes on Brazil, Russia, India, and China – known as the BRICs – to lift the global economy out of its funk. And while some of these countries may have more positive growth prospects than the developed world, there’s more to economic...
Once the poster child for the benefits of globalization, Cambodia is now being asked to cope with its darker side in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The four pillars of the country’s economy – tourism, garment-making, construction, and agriculture – are feeling the global pinch in their...
New terms like ‘Chimerica’ and G2 coined in recent years, describing ties between China and the US have acquired new currency as the world sought a way out of the global financial crisis. With China taking the spotlight during the G20 meeting in London and senior Chinese and American officials...
最近几年来，新的术语，如中美（Chimerica）和G2等词不断被创造出来描述中美关系。随着全世界不断寻求全球金融危机的出路，它们已经获得了新的认同。随着中国在伦敦举行的20国集团会议上成了会议的焦点，以及中美高级官员最近在华盛顿举行了战略与经济对话，，两国将有望合作结束金融危机。但是，一些人担心G2这一术语可能反映了新的共同治理的现实。中国分析专家克利斯朵夫•M•克拉克（Christopher M. Clarke）认为，那不过是表面而已。他写道，某些人看到中美两国的经济“共生”关系就杜撰出中美（Chimerica）一词，但这一经济共生关系不过是因为害怕“与对方一起坠入深渊”，...
ASEAN’s status as a successful association that fosters regional economic development and trade remains largely unquestioned. But the association has a poor record as a forum of modern democratic states upholding broader objectives such as human rights. In fact, human rights issues involving some...
Demographic trends, often ignored by policymakers, are clearly linked with the US’ immigration policy. If Congress and the Obama administration plan to implement an effective immigration policy, they need to understand how over time it will affect the country’s population figure. As demographer...
The global financial crisis is far from over, and Joergen Oerstroem Moeller argues for a stimulation in global demand. Unfortunately, the big drivers of demand growth in the past – primarily the US, but also Japan and Europe – each face major hurdles sufficiently large to suggest they won’t be the...
China and the US are planning their first combined Strategic and Economic Dialogue against the backdrop of a severe financial crisis and a growing concern over global warming. Such engagements thus provide ample opportunities for collaboration as well as the managing of conflict, according to Shen...
On her first visit to India, charismatic US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton sought to reassure India that the Indo-US friendship remains strong. But there is no mistaking that the warmth generated thanks in part to George W. Bush’s recognition of India as a de facto nuclear power is absent,...
在对印度进行首次访问时，魅力十足的美国国务卿希拉里・克林顿（Hilary Clinton）试图向印度保证，印美两国的友谊仍然牢固。但伦敦大学国王学院哈西・潘特（Harsh Pant）教授认为，两国之间的这种友好关系，在一定程度上是因为前任总统乔治・布什（George W. Bush）承认印度是一个事实上的核大国而形成的，然而现在这种友好关系已经冷却。导致美印关系降温的原因多种多样，但其中最主要的原因可能是奥巴马政府主张优先推行核不扩散进程，而最近的八国集团宣言也已证明了这一点。在八国集团会议上，奥巴马说服其他成员国共同签署了一项声明，...
The Mekong, one of the world’s major rivers, starting in Tibet and flowing through south China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, provides sustenance through irrigation and fishing to those living in its basin. But it also provides hydroelectric power through dams, three of which were...
