An Introductory remark on the Interview by Dewang Having just read an interview (translated by Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) of Xi Jinping when he was still governor of Fujian Province back in 2000, I am struck…
Category: Desk Column
The world needs to be awakened to Israel’s deplorable and reprehensible slaughtering of the citizens of Gaza, and their practice of deliberately targeting children, and to condemn this internationally in the strongest possible terms. The…
Entrepreneurship and economic growth? South-East Asian governments are developing policy on the misconception that entrepreneurship creates economic growth Throughout the South-East Asian region entrepreneur creation has almost unquestionably been seen as a viable policy instrument…
A description of David Sassoon in Fortune Magazine in the US, in the 1930s. The 99 year British lease on Hong Kong expired in July, 1997, allowing China to take over its land once…
Recently, I was boarding the C train in New York City where I encountered a woman who looked to be in her late 70’s sitting on the subway wearing a t-shirt which read: IS…
As many of you already know, a “Dear John” letter is a kiss-off, a way to tell someone, “I don’t love you anymore. I never want to see you again. Good-bye”. Or, “Get lost”. You…
Readers will no doubt recall the almost incessant Western media attention paid to the Chinese RMB during the past several years, the constant claims of China ‘cheating’ by keeping its currency undervalued, the…
U.S. Officials Created a False Link Between Iraq and 9/11 5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said “my interest is to hit Saddam”. He also said “Go massive . . . Sweep it all up….
While the United States is busy plotting the downfall of various anti-hegemonic regimes in the global south, it has also been pursuing another strategy to stave off crisis and possible loss of global supremacy: fusion…
The School of the Americas One part of this almost unbelievable US torture scandal is the little-known U.S. Army “School of the Americas”, located in Fort Benning, Georgia, which trains Latin American military officers and…