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Globalization, here we come!
Sol Sanders l
Friday, October 3, 2008
It is obvious that the fall-out of the U.S. financial crisis, not only in the U.S., but throughout the world will be enormous and unfathomable for months to come as the debris is sorted out.
But one effect already seems to be clear and far-reaching: the crisis and its implications for the world outside the U.S. already indicate that the pace of globalization will be given a further spurt. It will lead to a whole new plateau of intensified relationships on the economic, and therefore, the political plane among the world players.
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Taiwan case again confronts China at UN door
John Metzler l
Mon. Oct. 6, 2008
UNITED NATIONS — In a world organization which stresses universality, commitment to peace, and goals of humanitarian aid and assistance, it would be almost correct to assume that Taiwan, an East Asian democracy, would certainly be among the 192 member states. Yet, a quick reality check shows that despite being undeniably qualified for full United Nations membership, the rights of the 23 million people of the Republic of China on Taiwan are blocked at the door, by Big Brother in Beijing. Few UN members even dare to mention this exclusion lest it incur the diplomatic wrath of the dragon.
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Time to bail, saving the villains
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Wesley Pruden l
Friday, October 3, 2008
Bankers, like politicians and lawyers, are immune from the kinder, gentler impulses that quicken conscience in the rest of us. But sometimes a banker, even on Wall Street, can be thought of too harshly. (Lawyers, not so much. Politicians, never.)
We're coming off a roaring credit drunk, and the worst of the hangover lies still ahead.
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Missing in the great debates, 2008: China, original ideas
Lev Navrozov l
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
After Japan’s unconditional surrender in 1945 as a result of the U.S. destruction of two Japanese cities by atom bombs, produced by the U.S. “Manhattan Project,” it became clear that the outcome of a war is now decided not by the number and quality of soldiers, but by the number and quality of scientists and engineers able to develop the most advanced new weapons.
As an example of a possible war enemy today, let me take not Iraq, Afghanistan, or Iran, but China, left outside McCain-Obama chatter. Here is an article in front of me produced, on the basis of China’s Statistical Yearbook of 2005, by AFAR (Association for Asian Research). Nothing secret or military! The “Yearbook” is available in the New York Public Library, and the article is amicably entitled “China’s Revolution in Higher Education.”
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Iraq trip tests Obama on leadership issue
Robert Novak l
Monday, July 21, 2008
asked one of the Republican Party's smartest, most candid heavy hitters whether John McCain really has a chance to defeat Barack Obama in this season of Republican discontent. ''No, if the campaign is about McCain,'' he replied. ''Yes, if it's about Obama.'' That underlines the importance of Obama's visit to Iraq, beginning weeks of scrutiny under a GOP spotlight.
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Not going tingly over Obama
Mark Steyn l
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The short version of the Democratic Party primary campaign is that the media fell in love with Barack Obama but the Democratic electorate declined to. "I felt this thrill going up my leg," said MSNBC's Chris Matthews after one of the Senator's speeches.
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