19/07/2013 | Economia y Finanzas
Opinion - The rush toward Asia-Pacific FTAs
Following the recent launch of free trade negotiations between the United States and the European Union, there are now three mega-trade-and-investment liberalization blocs being shaped in various parts of the world.
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27/03/2013 | En Parrilla
Testing times for U.S., China
The second most senior official of the world’s top military power recently finished a week-long flying tour of East Asia that included talks with senior defense officials from Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
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14/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
China raises undersea ante
Nestled on the deck of its mother ship, China's most advanced deep-sea submersible is on its way to the depths of the central Pacific Ocean in a program that is being closely watched in Asia and the West for its mining and military potential as well as its scientific research.
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14/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
China raises undersea ante
Nestled on the deck of its mother ship, China's most advanced deep-sea submersible is on its way to the depths of the central Pacific Ocean in a program that is being closely watched in Asia and the West for its mining and military potential as well as its scientific research.
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27/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Asia's shaky water and energy balancing act
Much of central China along the Yangtze River is in the grip of its worst energy crisis in years. The electricity cuts for industry and households have been exacerbated by a five-month drought that has dried up rivers, reducing hydroelectric generating capacity and leaving many people and large swaths of farmland short of water.
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27/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Asia's shaky water and energy balancing act
Much of central China along the Yangtze River is in the grip of its worst energy crisis in years. The electricity cuts for industry and households have been exacerbated by a five-month drought that has dried up rivers, reducing hydroelectric generating capacity and leaving many people and large swaths of farmland short of water.
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24/05/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
Exploiting the ocean's riches
In the 1970s, the oil and natural gas industry decided to take a leap into the deep. With many of the biggest and cheapest petroleum deposits on land already discovered, the search for new finds went offshore into ever-deeper waters.
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24/05/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
Exploiting the ocean's riches
In the 1970s, the oil and natural gas industry decided to take a leap into the deep. With many of the biggest and cheapest petroleum deposits on land already discovered, the search for new finds went offshore into ever-deeper waters.
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30/04/2011 | Frente Externo
Beijing's troubling South China Sea policy
China is already one of the world's largest offshore energy producers. It wants to become bigger still by finding more oil and natural gas in home waters or in zones close to China, to avoid becoming excessively dependent on foreign imports.
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30/04/2011 | Frente Externo
Beijing's troubling South China Sea policy
China is already one of the world's largest offshore energy producers. It wants to become bigger still by finding more oil and natural gas in home waters or in zones close to China, to avoid becoming excessively dependent on foreign imports.
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14/04/2011 | Medio Ambiente
Nuclear disaster's impact
Japan's nuclear disaster highlights a contentious and still unresolved issue: how best to manage and dispose of highly radioactive used fuel from reactors that generate electricity.
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13/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
China's military challenge
Will China's development of new weapons counter the dominance of U.S. forces in the Asia-Pacific region — in space, at sea and, most recently, in the air?.
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15/11/2010 | Medio Ambiente
Solar energy boom in the American desert
In the remote deserts of the United States, a clean energy boom is under way with potentially far-reaching implications for the way future electricity is generated in the sunbelts of Asia and other regions.
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09/07/2010 | En Profundidad
A losing battle against proliferation
Slowly but surely, the barriers preventing the spread of nuclear technology and materials that can be used to make weapons of mass destruction are being eroded.
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17/06/2010 | Frente Externo
China ups the ante in Asia
In the opening session last month of the China-U.S. strategic and economic dialogue, Chinese President Hu Jintao said it was natural for the two countries to disagree on some issues. What was important, he added, was to "respect and accommodate each other's core interests and major concerns, appropriately handle the sensitive issues and strengthen the foundation of mutual trust."
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13/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
China's navy changing the game
For much of the Cold War, China's navy was little more than an elaborate coast guard. It was barely a blip on the maritime horizons of Japan and Southeast Asia. Today the Chinese armed forces are in the midst of an intense and sustained modernization program, and the navy has emerged as a key service for protecting and advancing national interests. It gets more than one-third of the declared military budget.
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05/02/2010 | Medio Ambiente
The world's radioactive rubbish is piling up
The Pacific Sandpiper, a specially built cargo ship with safety features far in excess of those found on conventional vessels, left Britain's Barrow port bound for Japan the other day.
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16/01/2010 | Economia y Finanzas
Russia looking to expand oil markets in East
For a long time, energy-hungry Asia has watched in frustration as Russia, currently the world's biggest producer of both oil and natural gas, sent nearly all its exports to former Soviet bloc partners and Europe, leaving Asian consumers increasingly dependent on imports from the Middle East.
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