Foreign governments donate millions to US think tanks to promote their positons, suggests a report in the New York Times. Research costs money; donors, foreign or domestic, may influence topics of research, sources and conclusions. “Washington think tanks, which were originally intended as a source...
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India has deployed supersonic cruise missiles to Arunachal in the northeast, and China promised counter-measures. India developed the missiles with Russia. “The deployment of the cruise missiles is the latest in what is starting to look like an arms race between the two countries, which have...
New Delhi’s decision to deploy the BrahMos supersonic missile – the world’s fastest anti-ship cruise missile, which can fly at 2.8 times the speed of sound – in the disputed northeast state of Arunachal, has left its rival and neighbor fuming as big...
The Venezuelan president announced plans to increase oil exports to China tenfold over the next five years, with the expectation that China will invest in the nation’s oil infrastructure, particularly in developing the reserves of the Orinoco Belt. The heavy tar-like reserves, which require special...
Thumbs up for oil power: Venzuela's President Hugo Chavez signed a deal to get Chinese investment in developing his country's oil resource
NEW YORK AND CARACAS: Hugo Chávez ended his recent visit to Beijing with...
The boom in India's technology sector, and its status as the top destination for many American and European outsourcers, has brought the country high growth and a widespread boost in standard of living – at least for the middle and upper classes. But the majority of Indians, especially those...
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to William D. Nordhaus of Yale University and Paul M. Romer of New York University’s Stern School of Business for research “addressing some of our time’s most basic and pressing questions about how we create long-term sustained and sustainable...
The US president whose campaign is under a special counsel investigation for Russian interference took steps to withdraw the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan. “Before, during and after its now infamous meddling in our last presidential election, Russia practiced the art of...
Unemployment in Indonesia is widespread, and jobs are hard to find. An estimated 600,000 Indonesians have migrated to neighboring Malaysia and taken jobs. About 400,000 of those are working in Malaysia illegally. To protect its domestic labor market, Malaysia recently passed a strong anti-...
The issue of illegal workers has reached new heights over the past few days. Reactions have been coming thick and fast not only from our state officials, but also we have witnessed anti-Malaysian protesters burning that...
经济史学家尼尔•弗格森（Niall Ferguson）是“中美经济体”（Chimerica）一词的提出者之一。但是他现在认为，中美两国业已融为一个经济体即“中美经济体”的观点，可能是一种幻想（chimera）。这并不意味着两国不会紧密地联系在一起；也许，两国关系是如此之紧密，彼此间的纽带一旦松动就可能立即引发难以预测的不利后果。但中美经济体只是幻想的看法也的确引起了人们对中美两国集团（G2）这一构想的怀疑。的确，美国迫切需要中国继续购买其国债，而中国最希望的则莫过于摆脱美元为其带来的风险。然而，由于美国的许多高科技设备可能被用于军事领域，并由此导致国家安全问题，...
历史上的每一个时期 都会产生能抓住时代本质的新术语和缩略词。2006年年末，英国历史学家尼尔•弗格森和经济学家莫里茨•石里克（Moritz Schularick）杜撰了“中美经济体”这一术语来指称中美两国。他们认为，中美两国已经有效地融为一个单一经济体了。两年后，随着金融风暴的加剧， 美国经济学家弗雷德•伯格斯滕（Fred Bergsten）指出，整个世界应当由中美两国集团（G2）来管理。
当世界上第一个20国集团聚首华盛顿，讨论应对金融危机时，伯格斯滕杜撰的这个新术语 （G2）...