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Weak Think Tanks Shackle Nation’s Governance Upgrade

Wang Wenwen January 29, 2015
The mission of most think tanks is to analyze and propose policies for all segments of society, and this requires the ability to investigate, criticize and envision policies freely, often with government or foundation funding. China has more than 400 think tanks, second after the United States with more than 1,800 think tanks, reports Wang Wenwen for Global Times. The Central Committee of the...

Pull of Global Economy Increases Latin America-Africa Engagement

Manuel Orozco and Julia Yansura January 26, 2015
Africa and Latin America are opening new trade and diplomatic relations, particularly in four key countries of Brazil, Mexico, Cuba and South Africa. Compared with their exports to the northern hemisphere, the exchange of goods between Latin American and African countries remains small, around 3 percent. However, trade between the two continents grew 75 percent between 2005 and 2012, and new...

China and Japan Mending Frail Relationship One Step at a Time

Kristine Kwok January 21, 2015
Negotiating the politics of a shared history of war and territorial disputes is less easy than managing trade. China and Japan are each other’s second largest trade partner . Despite nationalistic fervor and intense mistrust in both nations, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met briefly in November during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, preceded by...

Globalization Is in Peril, Bankers Say

Peter Coy December 10, 2014
The Institute of International Finance warns about restricted flows for capital in a report "Financial Globalization: Maximizing Benefits, Containing Risks." The report analyzes “the slowdown of cross-border flows and raises concerns that while the recent regulatory agenda should help to ensure a more stable and secure financial system, the extensive benefits from cross-border flows...

EU Politics Could Look to Multiethnic India for Strategies

Pallavi Aiyar November 11, 2014
Visions of a united Europe are under strain as anti-EU parties have made political gains in France, Sweden, the UK and other nations. Although the European Union is often thought of as a “United States of Europe,” journalist Pallavi Aiyar argues that the EU more resembles chaotic India. “India, like the European Union, is the antithesis of the 19th-century European conception of the ‘nation state...

What If Britain Left the EU?

Michael White, Larry Elliott and Charlotte Higgins November 7, 2014
If the United Kingdom left the European Union, the country would face additional political and social problems including internal divisions and popular disillusionment. The move would also destabilize the EU overall, aggravating tensions between France and Germany and generating pessimism that could recreate the power-feuding Europe of the early-20th century. Some politicians in Britain use EU...

Global Problem Solving Without the Globaloney

Pankaj Ghemawat October 29, 2014
Many challenges, like climate change, are global in scale, but citizens often have an exaggerated sense of other global connections, including internet use and immigration. Pankaj Ghemawat refers to outsized estimates as globaloney: “It obscures the potential gains from additional globalization, swells fears about its adverse consequences, and causes companies to adopt strategies of ‘bigger and...