With its invasion of Crimea and intervention in eastern Ukraine, Russia invited condemnation and sanctions from the West and had little choice but to tighten ties with China. Stronger Sino-Russian relations prompt some analysts to compare China and Russia. “China should take such questions and...
Unequal friends: China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin celebrate a long-term gas deal; isolation following the intervention in Ukraine makes Russia more dependent on China
BEIJING: Many observers ponder Russia’s...
Mexico and Canada are trying to save the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has delivered trade, efficiency and jobs to three nations. The Trump administration views the trade agreement as unfair. Edward Luce, writing for the Financial Times, describes three demands that suggest the United...
Offshoring work overseas by US companies is a handy populist issue during a US presidential campaigns. The issue distinguishes the two candidates: Republican John McCain staunchly supports free trade and low taxes; Democrat Barack Obama supports free-trade agreements, but urges tax incentives for...
Politics of outsourcing: During a US presidential election year, outsourcing has emerged as a hot button issue
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky: Offshoring has become a well-accepted business practice in the United States,...
“Pay-per-click” online advertising, how many websites charge customers, is a new target for computer hackers. Illegal software, which can be surreptitiously attached to private PCs, generates false clicks in massive numbers. The potential for false accounting could place advertisers in financial...
The rise of "pay-per-click" online advertising, celebrated for turning Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. into enormous businesses, is proving a boon for cyberthieves.
Hackers are using increasingly sophisticated...
In 1990, “Foreign Policy” first analyzed “soft power.” Here, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., author of the original article, returns to correct notions that have since become associated with soft power. The concept, he asserts, is the power of “attraction,” as opposed to the power of “coercion” or “payment...
“Soft Power Is Cultural Power”
Partly. Power is the ability to alter the behavior of others to get what you want. There are basically three ways to do that: coercion (sticks), payments (carrots), and...
The world’s wealthiest can easily ignore rising temperatures by turning up their air conditioners. “But the effects of air conditioners reach far beyond atmospherics to the ways we build our houses, where in the country we live, and how we spend our time,” explains Rebecca J. Rosen of the Atlantic...
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Competitive nations recognize that education helps societies advance. China is embracing research in sensors, brain-image scanners and other high-tech equipment to study children’s learning and performance in real time. “Neuroscience – studies of brain development, structure, function and...
Shaping young minds: Students at Jinhua Xiaoshun Primary School wear headbands with sensors developed by a Massachusetts company, and a UNESCO delegation visits the State Key laboratory of Neuroscience and Cognitive Learning (Photos: Wall Street...
中国发展道路不明，引发众多学者有关中国崛起、和平过渡或者是崩溃的种种猜想。哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心研究员谭若思（另译罗斯•特里尔——Ross Terrill）则集中讨论了中国可能崩溃的几个领域，并美其名曰“选择性失败”。在谭若思看来，中国成败在于以下四个关键方面：（1）进一步提高人民的生活水平，（2）维持其广褒的多民族的领土完整，（3）中国共产党保持对政治权力的垄断，以及（4）中国超过美国，扩展其在亚洲以外地区的影响。而且，我们还必须考虑到以下的一些现象：首先，以廉价劳动力、出口导向和追随西方技术为特征的发展模式一旦枯竭，将引发中国长期的经济衰退；其次，自下而上的社会抗议层出不穷；第三，...
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