As the international community condemned the bombing, UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, said that his staff would remain in Iraq and continue their humanitarian mission. Countries around the world echoed Mr Annan's resolve, though responses varied from country to country. While Thailand...
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国际贸易和金融学教授杰里弗•加藤指出，中国和谷歌的纷争其实与两种未来的前景有关。这是开放、国际化与稳定、民族主义之争。对中国而言，目标是继续把数百万人从贫困中拯救出来；如果这一目标需要国家稳定，要求网络控制，那就照办。对西方人而言，他们重视法治和表达自由，中国的做法在他们看来可能是落后的。但是，糟糕的企业管治、信用危机、以及无法在哥本哈根就扭转气候变化采取行动，都说明了西方模式的缺陷，在这种情况下，西方人近来实在没有什么道德高地。目前，好牌似乎都在中国手里：伊朗和朝鲜问题需要中国帮忙，中国掌握着巨额美国债券，而其它企业也不愿意因为支持谷歌而伤害他们在这世界最大市场上的前景。结果，...
纽黑文：因为成为网络攻击和审查的对象，谷歌威胁着退出中国。这不是过去与将来开战的号角，而是关于将来的两种可能性相当的前景之间的战争，其间中国占有起初优势。
当然，这不是大部分西方人所看到的。毕竟，这庞大的互联网搜索引擎公司是技术创新和跨越边界通讯的代表，让世界上许多人受益。而另一面，则是谷歌受攻击，在美国人和欧洲人眼里，中国就是要阻止前进的车轮。
但从北京的角度，事情并不一样。对中国官员而言，将来可能是继续把数百万人从贫困中拯救出来，促进迅速发展的中产阶层的崛起，...
Venezuela has high levels of sludge, called bitumen, once thought of as useless. But now, technology introduced by foreign oil companies such as Chevron Corporation transforms the sludge into oil. The discovery puts the government and oil companies at odds. The government claims that exploration...
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Globalization is creating “cultural schizophrenia” in developing nations, which lack the ability to protect their traditional ways of life against the constant bombardment of a dazzling and well-packaged Western culture. The author, reflecting on his travels in the Muslim world − a Muslim family...
A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the popular music video channel, MTV....
Islamic extremist groups are expanding their use of the internet as a tool to further their war against the West. Some jihadi websites offer instructions on hacking. While US defense officals claim jihadists are attempting to recruit computer experts to raise funds through online fraud schemes and...
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The Turkish Parliament’s decision to send troops to the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon is a milestone event, according to banker Matein Khalid. Since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, Turkey’s policies and politics have largely distanced the secularized country from the Arab...
THE Turkish Parliament has now voted to send troops on the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. This is a milestone event in Turkish foreign policy under the Recip Tayyip Erdogan government. The 340 -192 vote is a...
The global economy is in a shambles, due to a credit crunch, uncertain values of homes and other assets, and complex loan packages that few people understand. US President George Bush convened a meeting of 20 major economies and acknowledged that emerging economies like China, India and Brazil...
Calls for global negotiations to resolve the growing crisis have been heard for some time. But this time, it is the very real threat of the global economy teetering on the edge that brought about the first meeting of the Group...
The economic crisis of 2008 and the uncertain recovery that has followed did not result in large-scale protectionism as some expected. There have been worrying signs of the traditional propensity of nation-states to turn inwards when the global economic outlook is bad, but for the most part,...
GENEVA: Protectionism has been described as "the dog that didn't bark" in the long, troubled night of the financial crisis; remarkable precisely because of its absence.
In the years since the crisis erupted, the world economy has borne witness to...
