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U.S.-China Ideological Rivalry Heats Up

Eric Teo Chu Cheow January 6, 2006
While the US relies on free markets and free societies as the basis for contemporary socioeconomic and political movement, China focuses on stability as the essence of its foreign policy. The Anglo-Saxon model, which has fueled globalization, stems from a collection of neo-liberal practices called the “Washington Consensus,” whereas the Chinese model, based on a dual economy of private and public...

U.S.–China Ideological Rivalry Heats Up

Eric Teo Chu Cheow January 6, 2006
While the US relies on free markets and free societies as the basis for contemporary socioeconomic and political movement, China focuses on stability as the essence of its foreign policy. The Anglo-Saxon model, which has fueled globalization, stems from a collection of neo-liberal practices called the “Washington Consensus,” whereas the Chinese model, based on a dual economy of private and public...

The East Asia Summit: More Discord than Accord

Mohan Malik December 20, 2005
Some hoped that the recent East Asian Summit (EAS)—which included China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)—would be the first step towards building an East Asian Community. Instead, EAS brought historical rivalries and conflicting geopolitical interests into sharp relief. In this article, Mohan Malik, a professor at the...

Vietnam Goes Global

Jordan Ryan December 15, 2005
Although Vietnam had hoped to join the WTO before that body’s December ministerial meeting, an accession deal is not likely to finalized before mid-2006. Still, Vietnam’s eagerness to join the global trading system marks a noteworthy ideological shift for the ruling Communist Party, writes Jordan Ryan, the United Nations Development Program Representative in Hanoi. Vietnam’s Communist leaders...

It’s Now Hollywood Outsourcing to India

December 14, 2005
The Indian government is altering its decades-old stance of suspicion towards Hollywood and foreign cultural influence, and deliberatly positioning India as an outsourcing destination for the international film industry. India has become an attractive location for future blockbusters, offering cost savings of forty to sixty percent on typical big-budget productions and potential for profit. The...

Ogre to Slay? Outsource it to Chinese

David Barboza December 9, 2005
Online gamers with money to burn, who have neither the time nor patience to battle their way up to the higher levels of games such as World of Warcraft and Magic Land, are willing to pay others to do it for them. A business known as "gold farming" has appeared in China, in which young men, mostly with dim employment prospects, spend hours playing online games, accumulating points,...

Penchant For Secrecy Harming China’s Image

Frank Ching December 5, 2005
The Chinese government has a culture of secrecy. In the effort to protect delicate information, officials may lie. A perfect example was the explosion at the Jilin Petrochemical Company, and subsequent pollution of the Songhua River. A concerted effort to obscure the nature and magnitude of the disaster suggests that China has a problem. In the name of social stability, China has been lying...