Despite a recent slowdown, China’s economy is still growing. Its citizens are much wealthier than they were just a few decades ago and like investors around the world, they seek secure places to store assets. “However, the fact is that enormous amounts of liquid money held by Chinese individuals...
Money flow: Chinese investment in Hong Kong opens the door to fund transfers to the West, top; Chinese oil giant owns major share of Australia’s Queensland Curtis Island LNG
NEW BRUNSWICK: China’s sinking stock market and the government’s assiduous...
Asia accounts for 27 percent of the global economy and nearly 60 percent of the world’s population. Analysts anticipate growth and influence, but labels of an Asian Century could be premature, warns an Asian Development Bank report, analyzed by Philip Bowring for the Asia Sentinel. Asia has...
The notion that the 21st century is the Asian century must not be taken for granted, warns the Asian Development Bank in a thoughtful and critical document Asia 2050: Realizing the Asian Century.
The report was unveiled this week at the bank’s...
Student demonstrations at Tiananmen Square during spring of 1989, ending with a massacre on June 4, prompted many foreigners mistakenly to predict the downfall of the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP remains in power today, but confronts a growing set of challenges, both domestic and international...
In the spring of 1989, giant crowds marched through the streets of China's cities, demanding an end to official corruption and more political freedom.
Inspired by the spectacle of these dramatic demonstrations...
People forced to pay their own health-care costs tend to hunt for bargains. As a result, medical tourism is booming, with patients in the US, Canada and UK scheduling flights to obtain surgery in India, Thailand, and other countries with trained physicians and procedures that cost 25 percent or...
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Liberalism – and the values of liberty, equality, individual dignity, tolerance, and freedom from bigotry and extremism – are under siege around much of the world, including the world’s largest democracy. India inherited an appreciation for liberal values as a result of British colonialism,...
Violent face of liberalism: Low-caste minorities in India in the aftermath of communal violence, and Indians mutinied against the illiberal British raj in 1857
NEW DELHI: Liberalism is under siege in India. Violence against minority communities,...
A trade war is underway, and the US president may next target German carmakers – even though his first round of trade tariffs has already provoked retaliation, increasing steel prices and making US products less competitive, prompting one US motorcycle company to announce plans for shifting some...
Conflict and disasters have increased human displacement to record levels worldwide, requiring efficient distribution of humanitarian aid. Focusing on renewables for provision of energy services could promote sustainability, explains a team of writers representing the Payne Institute at the...
Survival and sustainability: The UNHCR provides solar cooking tools to refugees in Burkina Faso, and a Syrian girl carries water in a refugee settlement in Jordan
GOLDEN, COLORADO: The world has 140 million people in need of humanitarian aid. More...
The world wrestles over what to do when nations and the UN Security Council fail in their responsibility to protect civilians from atrocities. A strike, as threatened by US President Barack Obama for a chemical weapons attack on Syrians, would have been legal, argues Harold Hongju Koh, former dean...
Crime without punishment : President Obama failed to publicly blame President Putin for Syrian mass slaughter (top); Syrian victims of gas attack by Russia’s ally President al-Assad
NEW HAVEN: Crises are lived forward, but understood backwards....