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Australia: Populate and We Will PerishChina is accused of a refusal to accept anything touching on its sovereignty
True, everyone has a different story about Copenhagen. Europeans are cross with America, India and others in a “low-ambition coalition”. But their strongest words are reserved for China, accused of a refusal to accept anything touching on its sovereignty and of secretly inciting small, poor allies to obstruct a deal. Read more
Unforeseen rise of Asia creates new world order
The theme of this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos is undeniably ambitious: “Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild.” Such aspirations reflect the timing of this year’s event, as economies around the world look to rebuild confidence after the global financial crisis. I look forward to the Davos sessions, but, whatever the outcomes, it is clear that the rebalancing of global leadership towards the East will be a key trend. Read more
China’s World Order
Davos, which many in Asia consider to be a rich man’s club dominated by “western thinking”, proved the perfect venue last year for Wen Jiabao, China’s premier, to let off steam. After years of being lectured about the virtues of free markets and financial deregulation, Mr Wen turned the table on his hosts, lacerating the west for bringing the world to the brink of crisis with lax oversight, profligate fiscal policy and the “blind pursuit of profit”. Together with Vladimir Putin, Russia’s then-buoyant prime minister, he used Davos to send a message about the crumbling state of the old order and the shift to something new. Read more
China’s New Economic World Order
Since 1978, China has exposed itself to the disadvantages of export trade denominated in dollars. Much of the wealth created in China during the last 30 years has ended up in the US, leaving China in an extended state of capital shortage despite being the largest holder of foreign reserves in the world. When it comes to consumer power and environmental pollution, China is only the kitchen; the dining room is in the US. In a new world economic order, China should move the dining room back inside China. Read more
North America and Europe will have to adjust to a new world order
That may have been true a few years ago, but it is no longer the case. Very quietly, China has become the world’s second-largest producer of scientific knowledge, surpassed only by the US, a status it has achieved at an awe-inspiring rate. If it continues on its current trajectory China will overtake the US before 2020 and the world will look very different as a result. The historical scientific dominance of North America and Europe will have to adjust to a new world order. Read more
Korea Taking a Lead in Shaping New World Order
“A hundred years after the historic shame of the forced annexation, the nation takes on a leading role in shaping a new world order,” the president was quoted as saying by his aides.
“Korea has now steered itself away from an Asian periphery to the center of the world,” Lee said during a new conference later in that month. Read more
Did Akmal Shaikh Deserve To Be Executed For Selling Drugs?
Following two years of failed appeals, 53-year-old Akmal Shaikh was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday morning at a prison in Urumqi, China. In 2007, Shaikh was convicted by Chinese officials of smuggling drugs in a suitcase from nearby Tajikstan. The father of three denied any knowledge of the four kilograms of heroin found in luggage reportedly belonging to Shaikh. Read more
The New World Order, Rachel Maddow and Black Helicopters
In an August 10, 1973 New York Times article, Rockefeller said the following about Chairman Mao and his “social experiment”:
One is impressed immediately by the sense of national harmony…. Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded … in fostering high morale and community purpose. General social and economic progress is no less impressive…. The enormous social advances of China have benefited greatly form the singleness of ideology and purpose…. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in history.
The John Birch Society and its members are not the ones calling for the New World Order. The JBS didn’t make the name up, either. That would be the responsibility of those who are pushing for it. Read more
China is Not a Superpower of the Future
To believe that China is the next superpower, it’s also necessary to assume that China’s super-charged economic growth will continue. Unfortunately, relying on any country’s past performance to predict its future prospects is a risky proposition. China’s stunning economic growth performance since 1979 notwithstanding, its ability to sustain the same level of growth is by no means assured. In fact, the likelihood that China’s growth will slow down significantly in the next two decades is real and even substantial.
Several favourable structural factors, such as the demographic dividend (derived from a relatively younger population), virtually unlimited access to the global markets, high savings rates and discounted environmental costs, will gradually disappear. Read more
China is the New World Leader
Chinese premier outmanoeuvred Obama at Copenhagen
There were 192 countries and 120 heads of government in the room at Copenhagen, but in the end there were only two at the table, the United States and China. Welcome to the new world order.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, there has been one superpower, Read more