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China Play in US Election

October 15, 2012
US politicians often gripe about China, but campaign promises to “get tough” aren’t easy to keep. China is the third largest export market for US products. The Obama administration has already heightened enforcement of trade laws and filed more trade complaints than the previous administration....

饥饿的痛苦考验北朝鲜的政权交接

February 1, 2012
孤立的北朝鲜已经完成了从金正日到他的三儿子金正恩的权力过渡的初期阶段。金正恩现在拥有复杂的头衔，并得到明显的尊敬。但政府却面临几十年来先军政治和核武器项目造成的严峻挑战，以及自1950-1953年朝鲜战争以来与韩国之间的紧张关系，并持续拒绝进行经济改革或与国际社会合作。据估计达到国民生产总值四分之一的军队开支使2400万民众缺乏基本的生活必需品和最基本的人权。记者沈在勋报道说，北朝鲜遭遇严峻的粮食危机，可能导致三分之一的国民陷入挨饿状态。指挥和责任的链条落在一个年仅29岁缺乏经验的年轻人身上，新政府在重复从前的模式，要求粮食援助以换取终止铀浓缩项目。...

Why India Trails China

June 20, 2013
India as a democracy has made great strides in education, poverty reduction and economic reform, but the country, destined to the world’s most populous, still lags behind China. “The far greater gap between India and China is in the provision of essential public services — a failing that depresses...

Tort and Technology

January 24, 2013
Activists can use the US judicial system and the Alien Tort Claims Act to shame all sorts of multinational corporations from cooperating with authoritarian governments that violate international law. For example, a dozen Chinese citizens joined a suit against Cisco Systems, based in California, in...

The 7,000-Km Journey That Links Amazon Destruction to Fast Food

April 10, 2006
Greenpeace released a report detailing the illegal destruction of large portions of the Amazon rainforest by multinational food companies and commodity traders involved in the Brazilian soya bean industry. The process begins with farmers clearing vast tracts of virgin forest for soya, destined to...

Washington Post: Bomb Targets and Trump’s Words

October 25, 2018
Nationalism is defined by Oxford Living Dictionaries as “Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.” The extreme ideology regarding any criticism as threat is especially dangerous when so many...

Liberal Applications

February 15, 2010
While most Chinese applicants to US universities apply only to top Ivy League schools, a small but rapidly increasing number have started applying to a wider variety of liberal arts colleges. A liberal arts education can be a tough sell for entrants into the Chinese labor market, where immediate...

Mourn the Death of the Great Barrier Reef

May 3, 2016
With minimal enforcement for protecting the ocean commons, coral reef are being destroyed. Coral reefs survive within a narrow range of temperatures, and a report from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies points out that more than 90 percent of the Great...
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