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CHINA AND INDIA: A WAR OF GIANTS

August 30, 2010The highly respected British magazine “The Economist” featured a front-page article in their 21 August issue about the possibility of a major war between China and India.More… Continue reading

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Where Are the Men in Black Suits? Maybe They Are in Our Heads

“What do you think of China?”That’s a hard question to answer, especially when the person asking it is the executive vice-president of a $4 billion retail chain, and when that person is clearly Chinese. But, Wilson Zhu, executive vice president of Mich… Continue reading

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From the Commune to the Condo

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, Thomas Palmer, an American educator, wrote in the early 1800s.You don’t have to convince China of that saying. It’s a firm believer.More… Continue reading

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UN Carbon Trading Scheme: $2.7 Billion Market Could Be ‘Biggest Environmental Scandal In History’

UNITED NATIONS — An obscure U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling a huge scam.A… Continue reading

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Why Growth Is Good

Economic growth is slowing in the United States. It’s also slowing in Japan, France, Britain, Italy, Spain, and Canada. It’s even slowing in China. And it’s likely to be slowing soon in Germany.If governments keep hacking away at their budgets while co… Continue reading

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The Truth About China As #2

It’s official. China is now #2. Its economy (measured in nominal GDP for the second quarter) is now bigger than Japan’s (according to numbers released today from the Japanese government). And at the rate it’s growing, China could be the world’s bigges… Continue reading

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What to Create Millions of Jobs? Look to China

How to beat China at its own gameBy John F. WasikMore… Continue reading

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The Tale of a Smarter Planet

A butterfly flaps its wings in China and sometime later a thunderstorm occurs in Chicago? Not buying the butterfly effect? We’ve all heard it in some form, but IBMers are taking the concept and applying to the thousands of systems at work across the gl… Continue reading

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What’s Green, White and Blue? American Jobs

Red, as in furiously red, defined the day last fall when a consortium of companies announced it wanted $450 million in U.S. stimulus money to build a wind farm in Texas, creating 2,000 jobs in China and 300 in America.Now, nine months later, things hav… Continue reading

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Sen. Bennet Will Have Plenty of Time to Think About China Soon

Volunteers for Andrew Romanoff are busting their behinds day in and day out and Mr. Romanoff himself is crisscrossing the state connecting with voters and making his case for their vote.What’s Bennet up to? From the latest edition of the New Yorker:M… Continue reading

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