Political leaders, frustrated by collapsing economies due to the Covid-19 pandemic, consider providing assistance for domestic companies to pull operations out of China. “The goal is threefold: Punish China for the coronavirus, eliminate a source of vulnerability in production lines of critical...
Value chain: Tim Cook, as chief operating officer for Apple and now CEO, spent years re-engineering an elaborate supply chain to produce the iPhone; workers assemble Apple products in a Taiwan assembly plant
NEW HAVEN: Global supply chains –...
选择中国共产党最高领导人———九名政治局常务委员——背后的过程冗长、仔细掂量且不为人知。这层神秘的面纱让薄熙来稍微揭起了一点。薄熙来原来似乎有望进入常委的队伍，但因为野心过大而突然被解职。这位被驱逐的重庆市委书记为了获得国家权力，进行了种种运动，包括提供大规模补贴、重拳打击腐败、调动民族主义，用高唱文革时期的歌曲来赞颂毛泽东。目前，九名常委包括主席胡锦涛、总理温家宝、副主席习近平就薄熙来事件站在统一战线上。驻香港记者秦家骢分析了政治局常委的候选人和他们的背景。他预计包括改革派汪洋在内的温和派会上升，这是外国投资者所乐意见到的 。也许政治局会确保不断的合作，...
香港：高调的政治局成员薄熙来突然被撤职，这一事件背后的谜团似乎越来越复杂，影响之一非常明显：中国共产党苦心经营的、为未来十年打造的领导层按原计划将在今年晚些时候揭晓，但薄熙来事件的搅局可能扰乱了这一布局。政治局九名权力极大的常务委员的人选将决定这个国家未来的走向以及与世界的互动。
薄熙来原是重庆市党书记。位于中国西南的重庆是抗战时期的首都，人口三千万。薄熙来苦心孤诣要进入党的最高权力集团，在此过程中造成了领导层的分裂。
自2007年掌政重庆以来，薄熙来为自己及其“重庆模式”...
Population growth is linked to conflict, water shortages and resource depletion, climate change and mass migrations. The global population is now 7.3 billion people, up from 2.5 billion in 1950, and is expected to swell to near 11 billion by the end of the century. World leaders convene this week...
Developing population gap: Booming population of Uganda, top, is set to reach same level as that for the United Kingdom – though the UK's was three times larger than Uganda's in 1995
NEW YORK: As world leaders convene for the UN Sustainable...
While most Chinese applicants to US universities apply only to top Ivy League schools, a small but rapidly increasing number have started applying to a wider variety of liberal arts colleges. A liberal arts education can be a tough sell for entrants into the Chinese labor market, where immediate...
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When the US Congress voted to close a tax law loophole this month, some German city governments began to worry. Over the past seven years Germany municipalities have signed more than 150 cross-border leasing agreements with US investors. Under the agreements, Americans leased German...
German municipalities have just lost a lucrative source of income after the U.S. House of Representatives, following the path already taken by the Senate, voted in favor of closing a loophole in the country'...
China plans to scrap term limits for its president, consolidating Xi Jinping’s power and reducing power for others in the Communist Party. Some in China contend the move promotes stability, but Peter Marino, writing for Reuters, suggests that assessing political events could become more challenging...
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On February 9, 1796, Qianlong, the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty and the leader of China at its pre-modern peak of power, size, and prestige, abdicated in the 61st year of his reign in favor of his 35-year-old son. Though, until his...
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
NEW HAVEN: On June 18th, news outlets...
A brutal civil war reigns in Syria, as demonstrated by scenes of a neighborhood waking to a chemical attack that killed hundreds. International critics allege that the regime, clinging to power, is responsible for the attack, even as the United Nations investigates. The country has become the...
Politics of death: Syrian civilians killed by gas attack, allegedly by the Assad regime (top); distraught Tunisian supporters of Mohamed Brahmi, who was assassinated by Islamic extremists
LONDON: The horrific early morning gas attack on the suburb...
