This decade has witnessed a strengthening of economic ties between a number of Middle Eastern countries and China. While previously the Middle East was seen primarily as a petrol station, explains the Economist, with nearly half of China’s oil supplied by Arab countries and Iran, there was little...
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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pursued an “Act East Policy,” intended to strengthen Indo-Pacific strategic relationships, regional political stability, and economic exchanges with Myanmar and other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN. Stronger ties require...
Talk or act? India's Act East policy faces resistance from insurgent groups even as Indian officials seek to enlist support of political leaders in the country’s northeast states
NEW HAVEN: The Narendra Modi–led Bharatiya Janata Party has been...
US diplomacy is under a cloud as details emerge from US impeachment proceedings. The investigation focuses on efforts to persuade Ukraine’s new president to announce an investigation into activities of a US politician's son. Ukraine, at war at Russia, depends on a show of US support, including...
The recent Chinese acquisition of the IBM PC division does not illustrate China's rise at the expense of the US. Rather, it signals a deeper shift in the information technology (IT) business, which has been changing the global economic landscape. Jean-Pierre Lehmann contends that the shift...
Wanna hold your hand: Lenovo Chairman Liu Chuanzhi (Left) with John Joyce, Senior Vice-President of IBM Global Services, at a ceremony in Beijing December 8, 2004, cementing the new relationship
NEW DELHI: The recent...
History professor Harold James argues that the political challenges globalization presents today are similar to the challenges at the turn of the twentieth century. These problems drive a wedge between the normal left/right division.
As James notes, “a triple division, between anti-globalisation...
DEBATES and protests about globalisation have been muted since last September's terrorist attacks. But that silence does not mean that they are over.
Indeed, protests about globalisation seem likely to return...
HSBC is the latest in a series of financial institutions that are moving certain functions out of the US and UK and into areas that provide cheaper labor. Malaysia and India have become some of the most attractive relocation sites, given the preponderance of English speakers. Banks, as well as...
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The 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis seriously disrupted many economies in the Asia-Pacific region and impeded global economic growth. Governments and international institutions have since tried to draw lessons from that nightmare. In this article in The Economist, the author says that there is...
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叙利亚在今年4月份停火之后，经过了几个月的谈判，最近又战火重燃。联合国前秘书长和诺贝尔和平奖获得者、于近日辞去联合国-阿盟(League of Arab)叙利亚危机联合特使职务的科菲•安南讲述了他对促成停火的努力以及后来这种努力又告失败的失望。叙利亚当今的局势的关键之所在，安南总结道，在于双方认为有希望采用军事手段来推进自己狭隘的议程。回首去年叙利亚危机爆发之时，抗议者们掀起的是一场旨在争取公民权利和政治权利、倡导变革主张的群众运动，他们不顾政府不断升级的暴力镇压，以极大的勇气日复一日的上街游行。这本来可以赢得叙利亚国内不同阶层、不同背景的人的支持和理解，也可以获得国际社会的帮助和参与，但是...
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