Globalization, while less popular in some countries, still contributes to rapid change throughout the world. Global networks allow for immediate spread of new ideas, and Jeff Desjardins of Visual Capitalist identifies eight forces of global change with striking information graphics: Technology,...
巴基斯坦这边打击基地组织，那边又支持伊斯兰激进分子对抗印度，政策自相矛盾，结果恰恰反受其害。前美国情报官员、现布鲁金斯学会萨班中东政策研究中心资深研究员布鲁斯•里德尔（Bruce Riedel），质疑巴基斯坦是一个“失败国家”这一观点。这个国家现在被极端激进分子操纵，而这些激进分子，是巴基斯坦军方的一些部门，为了向宿敌印度发动袭击而培育出来的。自从奥萨马•本•拉登死后，巴基斯坦军方避开了美国的言辞攻击和基地组织的致命袭击。由于伊斯兰圣战分子野心勃勃，妄图夺取巴基斯坦并接管其核武器，如今，这些极端组织掉转枪头对准他们的国家。里德尔得出结论认为，通过谈判迅速结束印度—巴基斯坦之间的冲突，...
华盛顿：巴基斯坦即将成为世界第五人口大国，其拥有的核武库规模排世界第五，对巴基斯坦的争夺战，一天比一天剧烈，结果难以预测。关键方面——巴基斯坦军方，似乎矛盾重重，不知该偏向哪一边：是它所创造出来却倒戈相向的伊斯兰圣战分子，还是它所鄙视的民主选举出来的文官政府？
美国突击队在5月2日突袭并击毙奥萨马·本·拉登的行动，使得巴基斯坦国内如火如荼的斗争更趋白热化，这种斗争决定了巴基斯坦的未来。与某些成见相反，巴基斯坦既不是“失败国家”，也不是“正走向衰败的国家”。今天的巴基斯坦，...
US President-elect Donald Trump follows a pattern, confounding global media and world leaders with provocative statements on Twitter, at rallies or during television programs. His staff then attempts to reassure the public with interpretations and insistence that social media messages do not...
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“American companies have outsourced just about everything else but never thought of outsourcing health care,” says Curtis Schroeder, chief executive of Bumrungrad hospital in Thailand. “Now they are.” Bumrungrad in particular, but also some of its rival hospitals are enjoying a new international...
BANGKOK The crisis in American health care is turning into very good news for Bumrungrad Hospital.
Bumrungrad treated more than 350,000 international patients last year, up from 161,000 in 2000. This year it...
Although South Korea’s legislature just approved the deployment of 3000 troops to Iraq, South Koreans’ anger about US military actions has reached a boiling point, argues Sook-Jong Lee, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. South Koreans have become increasingly critical of the US since...
Be careful what you wish for: A third of American forces will be leaving South Korea.
WASHINGTON: Last October, South Korea’s liberal civic organizations began to protest more loudly as the South Korean government...
Plastic sachets are the plastic bags used to package and redistribute bulk supplies of all types of food and other small items. The Philippines, an economy that participates in such repackaging, uses about 60 billion plastic sachets each year, suggests the Global Alliance for Incinerator...
'American imperialism' has become a common refrain for people seeking to understand the glue holding together the current international order. A variety of scholars and commentators claim authority on the topic, says author Jonathan Schell. But, he cautions, in their rush to proclaim...
L. Paul Bremer III, Chief US administrator in Iraq: Does he have the political power to hand it over to the Iraqis? (Photo: AFP)
NEW HAVEN: In the wake of September 11, 2001, American political observers have...
The Mekong, one of the world’s major rivers, starting in Tibet and flowing through south China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, provides sustenance through irrigation and fishing to those living in its basin. But it also provides hydroelectric power through dams, three of which were...
China's Xiaowan dam, the world's tallest, poses a huge challenge to the Mekong river basin countries
SINGAPORE: Back in 1986, when China began building the first of a series of dams on the Mekong River, hardly anyone in the downstream countries of...