China’s plan to export cut flowers is less about conquering another industry and more about creating jobs in provinces other than those along the crowded, booming coast. Roses from impoverished Yunnan Province, grown and packed by workers who earn about $25 per month, have suddenly swept the...
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Protectionists assign blame for the COVID-19 pandemic on the trade, travel and migration associated with globalization. This overlooks how globalization has delivered prosperity and benefits. Still, an interconnected world cannot avoid shared risks, and even the most protectionist nations struggle...
Global governance fail? WHO declared a global emergency on January 30, yet many global leaders did not prepare; Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus meets with Xi Jinping, and President Donald Trump suspends US funding for the health...
The May 8 anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe has long been celebrated as a triumph of democracy over fascism. The truth is more complicated, argues researcher Ruth Lawlor. As Germany fought for white supremacy, killing millions of Jews, other European nations conscripted African and...
Catalyst for civil rights: More than a million African Americans served during the Second World War, but returned home to discrimination in many communities (Source: National Archives and undated photo)
NEW HAVEN: May 8 marks the anniversary of the...
今天，全世界的物质、思想、机构以及人员的交流在成指数增长，这个现象只是一个长期历史趋势的一部分。在人类历史上，人们对更为美好事物的追求一直激励着全球范围内的人口流动、贸易往来和思想文化的交流。
1962年，“全球化” 第一次出现在我们的词汇中，而现在，这个词语已经从一个那时的专门术语变成了今天的一个口头禅。《经济学人》杂志 （The Economist） 已经把它称之为“21世纪被滥用词语之最”。在我们最近的记忆里，没有哪个词语能够像“全球化”一样对不同的人群有如此不同的含义...
South Korea hosts US bases and more than 25,000 troops, contributing to the costs. The Trump administration wants the country to pay $5 billion for maintaining that presence. South Korea suggests that the request lacks specifics, showing a lack of respect for allies. “Such concerns were greatly...
China has placed hundreds of thousands of Muslims in prison camps for reeducation. “China is eradicating the language, traditions and religion of Uighur, Kazakh and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang in China’s far northwest, corralling them into concentration camps and bombarding them with...
内部分裂会比外部威胁更深地伤害到一个联盟。在分析希腊债务危机的两篇系列文章中，政治经济学教授让-皮埃尔•莱曼（Jean-Pierre Lehmann）在下篇中指出，缺乏互信——没有共享的基本价值观或前瞻视野——将会严重妨害合作的展开。文中，莱曼教授描述了希腊的巨额债务负担、腐败历史及此二者对欧洲联盟的影响。对强调善治的欧盟来说，为保全组织的完整性而去帮助一个贪污腐败、挥霍无度的成员国摆脱财务危机，似乎并不是最为道德的做法。莱曼教授警告大家，短期的利益和安全并不足以维系一个强大、持久的联盟。他指出，欧盟之理想需要的是对“一个梦想，一份使命，一种远见”的长期约定与牺牲。为能够保留欧盟，...
日内瓦：希腊主权债务危机引发了一系列远超“纯”经济范围的争论。本质性的深刻问题渐渐浮现。不过到目前为止，它们都被遮掩在拯救希腊，并继而拯救欧元的忙乱行动之下。对这些经济问题的应对，至少在短期内，将可能决定欧元的存亡。而那些关乎信任与诚实的哲学问题，则将决定欧盟究竟何去何从。
我们可以仔细地研究一下。1957年，《罗马条约》（Treaty of Rome）签署，该条约确定了欧洲经济共同体（European Economic Community , EEC）的成立。其目的在于形成一个更为开放、...
For solving the world's biggest problems in defense, energy, finance or physics, China could have a new edge. The nation is poised to take the world's top spot in supercomputers, bypassing the United States. The Tianhe-A1 computer – developed by the Chinese National University of Defense...
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