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China Seeks "Strategic Partnership" With Africa

April 27, 2006
After making economic inroads throughout Africa, China seeks to strengthen political ties. Speaking in Nigeria – Africa’s top oil-producing nation – China President Hu Jintao promised respect for African sovereignty, which contrasts with the ongoing US demands for democracy and a war on terror....

Globalization Exposes Food Supply to Unsanitary Practices

June 13, 2008
Countries that import food must check on producers’ sanitary standards, warn scientists attending an American Society for Microbiology meeting, reported on by Science Centric. Lower wages in developing nations and specialized growing environments contribute to the trends in food trade. The US...

The Free-Trade Paradox

October 19, 2007
The collapse last year of the Doha Round has had little apparent impact on global trade. Worldwide merchandise exports increased fivefold in the quarter century following 1980, and two thirds of the global reduction in tariff barriers may be attributed to unilateral decisions as opposed to regional...

India's Knowledge Economy

March 29, 2005
A visit to the gleaming corporate campuses of Bangalore shatters most myths about India's outsourcing industry. Some people still believe that Indian outsourcing companies pay a bunch of PhDs pitifully low wages to do menial drudgework while working in sweatshops. "If these are sweatshops...

A Problem for Merkel and Germany

September 7, 2016
State parliament elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were widely regarded as a referendum on immigration. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union lost to a right-wing populist party. Alternative for Germany, formed in 2013, initially opposed the euro and eurozone...

Filler in Animal Feed Is Open Secret in China

May 4, 2007
Since it joined the WTO in 2001, China has come under increasing pressure to crack down on manufacturing of counterfeit and illegal goods within its borders. Beyond intellectual property concerns, safety fears are becoming increasingly prominent amid criticism of China’s lax enforcement against...

A Rampaging Market, but a Long Way from Global Power

November 13, 2004
Many observers in the West have in recent years greeted China's steamrolling economic growth with unabashed optimism and glee. Yet amidst predictions of imminent superpower-dom, China faces stark internal inequalities that threaten to derail its lofty aspirations. While much of its urban...

Outsourcing at Crux of Boeing Strike

September 9, 2008
Job security used to mean workers didn’t have to worry much about competition. But a strike at Boeing has redefined the notion of job security, with striking workers pleading for the chance to compete for company projects. The aerospace industry has adopted outsourcing supply methods of the...
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