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Trade Threats Underscore China’s Global Challenges

April 5, 2018
China aspires to great power status by 2050, and the ongoing transition requires “a full complement of internal adjustments aimed at the structural rebalancing of the Chinese economy – from manufacturing to services, from exports to household consumption, from surplus saving to saving absorption,...

Immigration Reform Divides America Again

September 5, 2017
US immigration policies contribute to growth and prosperity and maintain population levels as the nation’s fertility rates decline. “During the country’s first century, Congress did not enact limits on immigration and migrants arrived from Europe, Africa and Asia,” explains demographer Joseph...

When Chinese Martial Arts Flies Through the Global Box Office

December 9, 2002
Taiwan-born director Ang Lee won accolades for turning a Chinese novel into the fantastical, money-making movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. With undeniably Chinese martial arts action and a romantic story the Brothers Grimm would have praised, Lee's blockbuster appealed to audiences the...

China and India Pull Back on Doklam

September 14, 2017
The abrupt hostilities that flared this summer at the tri-border region of Bhutan, China and India were settled peacefully. Harsh V Pant, professor of international relations, credits the BRICS summit meeting – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – for hastening agreement. “It would have...

Russia Sets Out to Bring the Middle East Under New Order

November 8, 2016
With a combination of low-cost intervention in Syria, counterterrorism resources and support for Iran, Russia is making strides in bringing the Middle East into multipolar balance. “Moscow is eyeing a new order,” explains Yale scholar Chris Miller. “The main fracture dividing the Middle East will...

What Does Putin Really Want?

March 20, 2018
Vladimir Putin, ready to start another six-year term as Russia’s president, continues to perplex US leaders. "Concerns about Putin’s ambitions abroad soared after he reclaimed the Russian presidency in 2012 and used military force to reassert Russian prerogatives in Europe (Ukraine) and the...

Kenya: Globalizing with Flowers

April 9, 2004
Although Kenya has attracted some foreign dollars through tourism and export-based flower and tea industries, a majority of Kenyans remain mired in poverty. Jean-Pierre Lehmann, founding director of the Evian group, argues here that although its future could be bright, Kenya has not yet exploited...

China and Saudi Arabia Converge on Pakistan

March 7, 2019
Pakistan received substantial US military and financial aid since 2001, and the Trump administration canceled those payments in 2018, with the president suggesting that the country doesn't "do anything for us." Pakistan still has support from China, an ally since 1962, and Saudi...
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