If China's So Powerful, Why Isn't It More Powerful? | Foreign Policy
"This week, during the latest meeting of the twice-a-year U.S.-China strategic dialogue, leaders from both countries are talking economic policy. Cabinet members, led by their respective finance ministers and central bank governors, are discussing trade, climate change, the fates of the dollar and yuan, and other vital issues. But there are signs that this dialogue may become bogged down in the same old tit-for-tat economic disputes and fear-driven rhetoric. " Wen Liao in Foreign Policy
Saturday, August 22, 2009
If China's So Powerful, Why Isn't It More Powerful? | Foreign Policy
Friday, August 21, 2009
Epic Exaggerations
Epic Exaggerations - Edit Page - OPINION - The Times of India:
"Jaswant Singh's expulsion from the BJP, for writing a book on history, shows how powerful historical narratives can be. National narratives can be organised around who the heroes and villains of partition were. India and Pakistan can even go to war around these narratives. One possibility that remains obscured by them, however, is that the holocaust that accompanied partition was not actually willed by anyone. It was just the result of extraordinary political incompetence all round."
Tech giants unite against Google
"Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library." BBC News
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