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Report Shows Darker Side of Globalization

June 23, 2007
Lower costs of transportation, communication and other technology allow businesses to move to the most profitable points on the globe. Such relocations have contributed to rising economies in China, India, Russia and Brazil, with those four nations accounting for almost half of the world’s labor...

Donors Warn of Lost Foreign Expertise

December 12, 2003
Believing it has 'outgrown' the need for international donors' assistance, the government of Thailand has announced that it will no longer accept technical assistance from foreign countries. Once a recipient of Official Development Assistance (ODA) from countries such as Australia,...

中国海外投资面临的阻碍

June 26, 2009
在观念世界里，“全球化”栖身于一个快乐的王国，在那里，在“效用最大化”这一根本力量的指导下，商品、资本和人力自由地流动。但现实世界却比概念世界拥挤许多。比起理想世界，现实世界中的劳动力流动常常面临更多的摩擦。而资本，当它由政府所有的企业提供时，也碰到了大量路障。尽管解释这些路障的说辞通常是商业上的原因，但是国家安全或经济民族主义往往才是真正的缘由。自然资源被视作一个国家的战略资产；同时，人们也担心外国人拥有本国的成功企业。最新的例证便是中国国有铝业公司（Chinalco）收购澳大利亚铁矿公司力拓（Rio Tinto）部分资产竞标失败。但以上并非个案，...

A Conflict That Will Stay Close to Home

July 18, 2006
The heated missile exchange between Israel and Hezbollah factions in southern Lebanon is influenced by Syria and Iran, both openly supportive of Islamist agendas to obliterate the Zionist state, according to political analyst Edward M. Luttwak. However, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reasons...

重新平衡全球经济，势在必行

July 19, 2012
近年来，从拉美债务危机、到美国次贷危机以及到现在的欧洲主权债务危机，都给了我们这么一个教训：全球不平衡发展的态势难以为继。由于坚信未来经济必定增长的错误理念，这些国家大量举债，使得经济的繁荣和稳定面临极大风险。全球经济增长现在面临困难：因担忧债务问题，美国消费者如今缩减花销；作为新兴新经济体的印度和中国，在全球市场中是无法弥补这一花销的。耶鲁大学教授、金融界资深经济学家斯蒂芬•罗奇呼吁道：全世界尤其是世界最大的经贸伙伴美国和中国，必须直面债务危机这一现实，消除经济失衡。他提出一个重新平衡的方案，其中包括中国要发展其经济中的服务业。美国政治领导人必须停止攻击人民币，...

Bhutto’s Return Brings Pakistani Politics to a Boil

October 31, 2007
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan, ready to run for office, force General Pervez Musharraf to share power and combat terrorism. Crowds of passionate supporters greeted her when she arrived in mid-October, along with a bomb blast that killed 140 people. Confusion and...

Fed Chief Gives Seminar on History of Globalization

August 29, 2006
Governments must prepare their citizens for the increasing disruptions of new competition caused by the force of globalization. The world will face fewer disruptions if the “benefits of global economic integration are sufficiently shared,” urged Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve...

巴基斯坦争掌阿富汗战争残局

September 30, 2011
在美国放手阿富汗战争这件事上，巴基斯坦军事及情报机构的领导人们已经等得不耐烦，他们甚至鼓励塔利班向北约发动攻击。巴基斯坦的目的就是要阻止亲印度政府在阿富汗的形成，取而代之，设立一个傀儡伊斯兰政权。一向直言不讳的美国参谋长联席会议（US Joint Chiefs of Staff）主席，海军上将迈克•马伦（Admiral Mike Mullen）在美国参议院军事委员会（US Senate Armed Services Committee）听证会上毫不客气地指出，塔利班领导人及哈卡尼（Haqqani）网络“能在巴基斯坦境内发号施令而毫不受妨”。布鲁金斯学会（Brookings...
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