Votes at the UN General Assembly reveal foreign-policy objectives and concerns. In March, Bangladesh, China and India along with 55 other nations abstained on a resolution suggesting Russia’s annexation of Crimea was illegal. “Dhaka claims that Bangladesh abstained because the country did not wish...
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Traces of cadmium found in Chinese rice samples are expected to boost imports. In recent years, China has been a major importer of rice despite strong domestic production. Rice expert Samarendu Mohanty offers two possible reasons in the Asia Sentinel: Foreign rice is less expensive than Chinese...
China has been a savior for the global rice market in the past year, importing 2.3 million tonnes, and it has continued that role so far this year.
It is very likely China will hold the top spot in 2013 with 3 million tonnes of imports. However,...
Protests for representative government and human rights in Egypt have given way to thuggery and lawlessness, suggests David Ignatius in an opinion essay for the Washington Post. He compares “soccer thugs” roaming Egypt’s streets, defying authority, to the aggressive youth gangs in the 1962 novel A...
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The French have long been critical of globalizing forces that disrupt their nation’s economy or threaten their identity. Calls for démondialisation, or deglobalization, has emerged as a leading issue in the French presidential campaign. Intense opposition to engagement with the world builds among...
Stop the world: In the coming presidential election, France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen (top) campaigns against globalization; one of the Socialist Party candidates, Arnaud Montebourg, calls for deglobalization
PARIS: As France gears up...
The specter of declining industry has loomed over the USA in recent years. As the imperatives of free trade and globalization send jobs and factories across borders and beyond oceans, the American worker and the American CEO both recognize they’re in a bind. American manufacturing, once the...
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India is already well known as the center of software development outsourcing, but following an I.B.M. agreement, it may soon be recognized as a hub for microprocessor design as well. I.B.M. has announced that the first design center for Power Architecture chips outside of the company’s walls will...
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