The US-China trade clash centers on intellectual property theft. “An underlying factor is the Chinese government’s rigorous censorship of imported cultural products,” explains Ge Chen, professor of law. The US Constitution protects speech as a check against excessive government power with the First...
Market without freedom: China’s authoritarian government incarcerated Nobel laureate and democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo who died in Chinese custody in 2017; Chinese citizens enjoyed a brief moment of freedom in 1979 when the government allowed...
The world awaits the outcome of the US mid-term elections, which will decide all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 33 seats in the Senate. If Democrats win either chamber, the president’s policies will face new scrutiny: A “Democratic majority's greatest influence will be oversight...
Japan and Italy are major economies, ranked third and ninth in the world, respectively. Yet both have slipped in recent years, a result of insular policies that in turn encourage provincialism. The cultures offer beautiful and unusual elements that draw admiration from around the world. Ironically...
Between local and global: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi seek to open to the world (top); but local charm endures in both countries - hilltop town of Pienza in Tuscany
ROME: It might seem odd but two inward...
US companies, journalists and communities are being targeted with hoaxes about false disasters including fake videos and photographs over email and Twitter. Adrian Chen details a fake report of an explosion at a chemicals plant in Louisiana and describes a It was “a highly coordinated...
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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”...
Colorless, odorless natural gas is touted as a clean combustible with few emissions. But it’s composed of at least 70 percent methane. A Cornell University study suggests that extracting natural gas from shale with hydraulic fracturing can release methane. The greenhouse gas traps far more heat...
WASHINGTON—Extracting natural gas from shale formations using hydraulic fracturing generates more greenhouse-gas emissions than burning coal, according to a new study that drew immediate attacks from oil and gas interests already facing pressure...
Even though the new US embargo is not the first of its kind against China, it is the biggest in scope and it comes only a week before the two countries’ leaders meet in Russia. China sold weapons to Iran during its conflict with Iraq in the 80’s, but the US says a more recent arms sale breaks a...
The US on Thursday accused China of failing to enforce a weapons proliferation agreement, and imposed tough sanctions on Norinco, one of China's biggest and most prestigious state-owned conglomerates, for supplying...
The US economic recovery and Asian trade growth should push global trade higher this year, according to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Yet such growth is susceptible to three risk factors: the level of the US current account and budget deficits; the extent of European economic growth and the...
GLOBAL trade is expected to grow by 7.5 per cent this year following the sharp economic recovery in the United States and unexpected surge in the performance of key Asian trading giants last year, according to the World...