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Anti-Immigration Backlash Roils Ties between Australia and India – Part II

Sadanand Dhume March 8, 2010
Australia and India are spending more time mending relations between the two nations than reaching a consensus on major international issues, according to journalist Sadanand Dhume. In part II of the two-part series, Dhume notes that despite Australia being the most popular Western country in India after the US, the violence against their countrymen there has appalled Indians and damaged...

Anti-Immigration Backlash Roils Ties between Australia and India – Part I

Robin Jeffrey March 5, 2010
Despite being a nation built by immigrants, Australia faces fresh challenges in dealing with new arrivals, particularly from India. The recent spate of violent attacks on Indian immigrants has brought a spotlight on the changing nature of migration from Asian neighbors and its impact on Australian society. In part I of this two part series, South Asia scholar Robin Jeffrey explores the reason...

Is There a Chinese Model?

David Shambaugh March 2, 2010
China's extraordinary growth in recent years has led many to wonder if a model can be erected based on this development. In China, though, scholars disagree whether a “Chinese model” of growth exists sufficient to export to other developing countries. According to David Shambaugh, director of George Washington University's China Policy Program, one must isolate four key elements of any...

Animosity Against English Teachers in Seoul

Jiyeon Lee February 9, 2010
Foreign English teachers in South Korea are coming under attack. The group “Citizens of Right Education” was formed to rid South Korea of unqualified foreign English teachers, involved in criminal or scandalous activities. Meanwhile, the Association for Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK) claims that English teachers have been vilified in the news, frequently presented as being involved in sexual...

Will Japan Emerge from its Shell? – Part II

Daniel Sneider February 5, 2010
Since the Democratic Party of Japan came to power in August of 2009, upsetting fifty years of conservative rule, US-Japan relations have been on rocky ground. It would seem that the DPJ is upending decades old policies, hewing its own path with the US, China, and the Asia Pacific region. As Asia-Pacific expert Daniel Sneider notes, Japan’s new tack not only has caught the US flat-footed, but also...

Who Needs Whom More?

Philip Bowring February 5, 2010
Recent US arms sales to Taiwan met a sharp Chinese response that unnerved US business interests. So far, the Obama Administration has preferred accommodation to confrontation with Beijing. Business concerns, of course, fear any disruption to growth in China. But is what is good for business necessarily good for the US in the case of China? According to the author, the US should recognize that...

Beijing Sanctions Over Arms Sales Could Backfire

Jamil Anderlini, Kevin Brown February 4, 2010
China threatened to impose sanctions on US defense companies, including Boeing, following their participation in the Obama Administration’s intended arms sale to Taiwan. But China could be shooting itself in the foot. Boeing enjoys a dominant presence in the Chinese commercial aviation industry. In addition, China’s hopes to develop its own jumbo jet by 2020 depend on continuing technical...