The US and EU initiated a new round of closed discussions on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a free trade agreement, with much of the content still kept top secret. However, the EU position on raw materials and energy was leaked in May, and the deal could eliminate restrictions...
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Emerging markets can prepare for a slowdown in the US by allowing their currencies to appreciate in value and developing new products for their own consumers, advises Raghuram Rajan, finance professor with the University of Chicago and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. The...
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Some analysts suggest that China and India are on a path to perpetual cooperation. Both are populous Asian nations experiencing high rates of economic growth with more exposure to international market forces. However, diverging political and economic ambitions could drive the two powerhouses into...
Future partners? Authoritarian China (top) and democratic India share many
similarities, but display contrasting styles and methods in economics and the workplace
STAMFORD: In late September 2007, a leading financial analyst...
Surveys find solid disapproval of adultery in every country, yet technology and social media, modern lifestyles and flexible gender roles, films and news reports about the affairs of politicians and celebrities make the activity more visible worldwide. “Historically, most cultures consider the...
Adultery on trial: From Chinese leader Bo Xilai, with wife Gu Kailai, to a Pakistani commoner, adulterers in some nations face punishment and shame
NEW YORK: Adultery, despite near universal disapproval, has become more visible and prevalent...
Claims that Islam is incompatible with democracy and modernity are terribly off-base, says Asghar Ali Engineer, a scholar and author at the Institute of Islamic Studies in Mumbai. The observation that science and democracy are not found in contemporary Islamic countries is fair, he says, but the...
Because of certain happenings and because there happens to be monarchy or dictatorships in most of the Muslim countries it has been concluded that Islam is not compatible with democracy and also with modernity. Some...
The Statute of Liberty, who promises open arms to all immigrants rich and poor, will soon be greeted by some of her new Americans. In an attempt to recapture the spirit of anti-racism activism in the 1960s, thousands are traveling across America's 'Heartland' to decry anti-immigrant...
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如果奥巴马总统无法让美国民众信服，他的国际主义政策和多边政策符合美国人的最大利益，那么这种政策就可能走向失败。专栏作家布鲁斯•斯托克斯（Bruce Stokes）认为，更重要的是，如果美国公众舆论不能被扭转，那么一个孤立的国家形象会削弱美国的国际地位，其在各种事务上取得广泛共识的能力也会有所削弱。相比过去40年，美国人从来没有像现在这样坚持孤立主义和单边主义。毫无疑问，这种态度使公众对奥巴马的大部分政策产生了极大的怀疑或者直接的分歧：从阿富汗增兵到气候变化政策，从移民政策到应对恐怖分子。实际上，许多美国人干脆相信: 世界其它地区应该自己去解决自己的问题。...
华盛顿：美国总统巴拉克•奥巴马奉行国际主义政策。他不断提升美国在阿富汗的军事承诺。他支持全球气候变化条约。他承诺改革美国的移民政策。而且他还支持美国继续融入世界经济。
民意调查显示，在所有这些问题上，政府政策都与许多美国人的观点相悖。而且，在一些情形中，这样的政策甚至还跟总统自己民主党内部成员的意见相左。
美国民众态度和美国政府政策的不协调,引起了人们对奥巴马政府国际议程可持续性的疑问，而且还有可能破坏一年前在选举奥巴马时对美国的良好祝愿。
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The 2015 general election in Myanmar marked a critical transition to democracy from military rule, when the people elected Aung San Suu Kyi in the first openly-contested election in a quarter-century. However, the military, known as the Tatmadaw in Burmese, still controls much of the country’s...
