Networks of trade contribute to peaceful relations among nations, but Europe, China and the United States are finding themselves in a challenging love triangle. Increasing US antagonism on trade may move other economies closer together, explains Xueying Zhang, a 2018-2019 Fox Fellow at Yale...
Big FDI trades: China has led with foreign direct investment in Europe, including takeovers of firms like Germany’s KUKA robotics; President of the European Council Donald Tusk, left, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker welcome...
China has repeatedly harassed foreign ships in the South China Sea. “The harassment of the Liberian registered tanker the Green Aura by Chinese naval and coast guard elements off Scarborough Shoal has generated a huge amount of debate and discussion, especially with regard to the manner in which...
The United States is in turmoil over gun rights, police shootings, and racial and political divides during a heated presidential campaign. Protesters associated with the Black Lives Matter movement gathered around the nation after police shootings of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota. During...
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More than a decade of war in Afghanistan has devastated Pakistan economically and politically. Yet Pakistan is key to Afghan security, capable of acting as a regional enforcer or spoiler as the US and NATO plan to withdraw forces from Afghanistan before the end 2014. Contrary to what’s widely...
Rocky road: Pakistani soldier guards border checkpoint in Kurram tribal region; the country could be hero or spoiler as the war in Afghanistan comes to a close
ISLAMABAD: Contrary to the general perception, Pakistan is not pushing for the return of...
Since 2001, China has funded nonprofit Chinese language institutes in nearly100 countries. The institutes have since branched out into business and other areas while also funding scholarships and study in China. In an article for the Asia Sentinel, Glenn Anthony May of the University of Oregon...
If you are an American academician specializing in Asian affairs, you may have noticed that an organization called the "Confucius Institute" has sprung up on a nearby US college campus.
Not long ago one was launched at my own academic institution,...
The Quichua people of Ecuador are no longer simply cultivators of cacao, transforming their role into manufacturers and owners, by forming their own cooperative known as Kallari. “Chocolate making has always been less common in cacao producing countries than it has been in Europe, where the...
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Population growth is linked to conflict, water shortages and resource depletion, climate change and mass migrations. The global population is now 7.3 billion people, up from 2.5 billion in 1950, and is expected to swell to near 11 billion by the end of the century. World leaders convene this week...
Developing population gap: Booming population of Uganda, top, is set to reach same level as that for the United Kingdom – though the UK's was three times larger than Uganda's in 1995
NEW YORK: As world leaders convene for the UN Sustainable...
在中国从依赖出口型经济进一步向国内消费型经济转变的过程当中，什么因素最关键？麦肯锡公司亚洲区负责人欧高敦认为，答案在于提高中国的创新能力。从积极的方面来看，中国研发支出占国内生产总值(GDP)的比例正在不断增加，已从2004年的1.25%提高到2008年的1.5%，且中国研发支出占全球研发支出的比例高达12%。另一方面，中国研发支出的主体也在悄然发生变化，正从政府控制的研究所向大中型企业转变，而后者的研发支出占中国研发总支出的 60%。但是，在道出这些可喜的发展成就和趋势之后，欧高敦同样指出了中国在创新方面的薄弱环节，即创新仍然缺乏“发明式”创新，...
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