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In Crackdown on Energy Use, China to Shut 2,000 Factories

August 12, 2010
Analysts predict that the countries that pursue energy efficiency and green technology – ending their dependence on fossil fuels – will emerge economic winners in the years ahead. Intent on not wasting energy, China applies strict targets on aging factories by ending bank loans, export credits,...

Stumbling Blocks Threaten Kyoto, Copenhagen

October 16, 2009
It is no secret that global community must act swiftly and decisively to curb carbon emissions and thus halt climate change. Originally, the Kyoto Protocol was one attempt to solve such problems, its many critics notwithstanding. Now the US and a small group of developed nations want to dismantle...

How Bush’s Nuclear Deal Burned Canada

March 24, 2006
To achieve the deal that was the focal point of his recent visit to India, President Bush retracted an original US demand that all of India’s nuclear facilities be classified as civilian facilities and subjected to permanent IAEA monitoring. Under the current agreement – yet to be approved by...

China Builds Commerce Codes

March 3, 2007
China's economy is the second largest in the world after the US and, with more than a billion people, growing fast. But the nation’s legal system is immature and fails to protect all business interests, particularly private-property rights and other elements not traditionally part of a...

China Soon to Be World's Biggest Internet User

January 29, 2007
With one out of ten Chinese using the internet and more signing on every day, China’s users will soon outnumber Americans online. The Chinese government encourages internet use for business or education purposes, reports Randeep Ramesh in The Guardian, and censors any controversial material...

Sensible Ideas on Why to Engage Tehran

October 17, 2006
Since the end of the Cold War, the US has led the international effort to encourage global security and nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. The US unabashedly has used regime change and an array of diplomacy to promote arms control and democracy. But the tools have failed when it comes to Iran...

Pakistan’s Governance Imperative

May 27, 2008
After a turbulent year in Pakistan, a civilian parliament has taken over the reins of government from General Pervez Musharraf and confronts a range of domestic and foreign issues. “Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gillani therefore faces not only the problems created by Musharraf’s national security...

Just When Africa’s Luck Was Changing

August 6, 2009
Contrary to the initial belief that Africa would escape the impact of the credit crisis because of its little to no investment in the global subprime market, the continent is feeling the pinch. According to the World Bank, African economies will grow at a meager 3 percent this year compared to 6...
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