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China Steps Up to a Global Threat

December 5, 2003
World AIDS Day on December 1 was marked in China by an unprecedented openness on the subject of HIV-AIDS. One of the nation's top leaders, Premier Wen Jiabao, visited patients in AIDS wards and proclaimed a new commitment to providing medical treatment for HIV-infected people and to...

Party's Over

March 8, 2004
On January 1, 2004, the Egyptian government stopped granting foreign belly dancers licenses to dance within the nation. Claiming that the national dance was being appropriated by foreigners, the Ministry of Labor says it moved to alleviate Egyptian unemployment in the dancing industry. Belly...

WHO Puzzled by Deadly Chinese Bird-Flu Strain

April 22, 2013
A World Health Organization team of researchers is in China, trying to determine how a new strain of bird flu, H7N9, spreads. Human-to-human transmission would be dangerous, and researchers are investigating family members who share the flu strain. “So far, investigators have said they can't...

Not End of the Road Yet

September 22, 2014
Individuals and countries, too, find it convenient to blame their own failings on globalization, with many going so far as to suggest that the interconnections can be halted. Reports of a decline in globalization are greatly exaggerated, argues Nayan Chanda, YaleGlobal’s editor in his column for...

Paying the China Price

November 15, 2013
Manufacturing that adapts to new technologies and conditions shapes societies and economies. The challenge for India and other countries is competing with China’s low costs. Nayan Chanda, YaleGlobal’s editor in his column for Businessworld, describes how business people place manufacturing orders...

Emails Reveal How Foundation Donors Got Access to Clinton and Aides at State Department

August 23, 2016
The Clinton Foundation’s website, transparent about the source of its donations, lists names of major foreign donors including those from Australia, Saudi Arabia and Sweden. The website also insists that “Secretary Clinton was not involved in the work of the Foundation when she was serving as...

Brookings: 5 Things to Known About the New NAFTA

October 15, 2018
In a Brookings blog post, Geoffrey Gertz picks out five salient facts about the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. The trade deal replaces the North America Free Trade Agreement, and while it will be officially signed by the three heads of state on December 1, it will only become law...

Today's Capitalism Has Run Its Course

October 7, 2008
As with politics, extremist and rigid economic policies cannot be sustained. As investor trust wanes and a credit crunch grips the globe, critics lash out. But extremist responses, pure capitalism or pure socialism, are inappropriate, suggests Bashir Goth writing for PostGlobal, moderated by Fareed...
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