The process of globalization continues to produce new surprises. Thomas L. Friedman, whose 1999 classic “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” has been translated in 30 languages, offers an update on globalization since his last interview with YaleGlobal editor Nayan Chanda a year ago. Friedman says that...
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The following is a partial transcript of Nayan Chanda's interview with the New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman conducted on March 25, 2004.
Nayan Chanda:...
China aspires to great power status by 2050, and the ongoing transition requires “a full complement of internal adjustments aimed at the structural rebalancing of the Chinese economy – from manufacturing to services, from exports to household consumption, from surplus saving to saving absorption,...
China faces US challenge: President Donald Trump with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, after initiating trade action against China, and export merchandise jams China’s ports
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The world’s major religions urge both respect for nature’s power and gratitude for Earth’s bounty. No one should have been surprised by the encyclical of Pope Francis, rallying believers and non-believers in a global call: “The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring...
Integrated solution for the planet and its people: Pope Francis calls on all faiths for a moral approach to addressing climate change, top, along with concern for the poor and inequity in all aspects of life
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Pollution, destroying quality of life for many communities in China, is the source of numerous public complaints. In response, China has started environmental inspections nationwide and cracks down on violators. After two rounds of inspections since 2016, about 29,000 companies were fined with more...
US President Barack Obama has emphasized that Russia is a weaker country than the United States. US military spending is 12 times more than Russia’s, and the Russian economy, under sanction for interventions in Ukraine, has been crowded out of the top 10 economies in recent years. Still, Russia...
Triangular game: Russian President Vladimir Putin sets out to charm Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, top, and China’s President Xi Jinping woos Russian allies like Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov
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Religious minorities in undeveloped nations are susceptible to funds and influence from outside sources. Fundamentalists in Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia target poor Muslims around the globe, including the Cham community in Cambodia. “Tracing their descent from the...
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Samoa is an independent nation in the Pacific and nearby American Samoa is a US territory. Many on these islands, like others throughout the world, once dismissed measles as a harmless childhood disease, and now both contend with the disease. An outbreak began in September, disrupting Samoan...
Despite Iran’s recent equivocation over a deal crafted to lower the threat of the country producing nuclear weapons, there are signs that the Islamic Republic could, nevertheless, settle the issue, according to Iranian and International Studies professor Jamsheed K. Choksy. First, President Mahmoud...
Cry from the street: Middle class demonstrators in Tehran want a democratic Iran to join the world
BLOOMINGTON: If Iran were to settle the nuclear weapons issue completely with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the world body, then...