05/02/2020 | Economia y Finanzas
Future of Asia - China Vs. Indonesia: Intra-Asian Power Games
Beyond the constant strife with the U.S., China’s assertion of global powers runs into increasing resistance even by normally acquiescent Asian nations.
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28/11/2018 | Economia y Finanzas
Future Of Asia - Philippines Vs. Political Dynasties
The Philippines badly needs a constitutional requirement for a law against political dynasties.
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03/09/2018 | Economia y Finanzas
Rethinking Belt-And-Road Debt – Analysis
Developing economies need infrastructure, but worry about the debt accompanying China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
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15/09/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Real Significance of the Rohingya Issue
Asian nations must worry that Myanmar’s moves against the Rohingyas won’t start untangling all colonial-era boundaries, however illogical in terms of ethnic or religious issues those may have been.
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16/05/2017 | Frente Externo
Future Of Asia - Chinese Showboating in World History
China’s Belt and Road initiative is eerily reminiscent of a 15th century Chinese vanity exercise.
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08/05/2017 | Frente Externo
Rethinking America - Trump’s Meddling in Asia
U.S. pressure on China to “do something” about North Korea results from the Trump team’s lack of regional knowledge.
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06/03/2017 | Frente Externo
Duterte Is Getting More Desperate
More fumbles from the new Philippines president, who now picks on a distinguished woman senator to distract from himself.
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02/03/2017 | Frente Externo
Global HotSpots, Global Pairings: Malaysia and the Trump Connection
Will Donald Trump, in order to protect his golf buddy, have his administration close down the investigation into 1MDB?.
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28/02/2017 | Frente Externo
Malaysia and the Trump Connection
Will Donald Trump, in order to protect his golf buddy, have his administration close down the investigation into 1MDB?
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05/06/2016 | Frente Externo
Duterte: The Making of a Philippines President
What can be expected of a prizefighter-turned-death-squad-mayor in the country’s top job?
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16/12/2015 | Frente Externo
The U.S. Global Business Community Must Speak Against Trump
Silence now will cost critical economic partners and strategic allies all over the world.
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31/10/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Indonesia: Why the US Needs to Pay Closer Attention
The United States needs to treat the unassuming Indonesian President Widodo with the attention due to his country.
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22/04/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
A Gathering of BRICS
The so-called BRICS group of nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) held their third summit meeting in Hainan, China, last week, promoting themselves as the key “emerging nations” to challenge the longtime dominance of the West.
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22/04/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
A Gathering of BRICS
The so-called BRICS group of nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) held their third summit meeting in Hainan, China, last week, promoting themselves as the key “emerging nations” to challenge the longtime dominance of the West.
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30/03/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
Nuclear or Coal?
Twenty five years ago a million people here signed a petition opposing a plan to build a nuclear power station with two reactors a few miles across the China border to provide power for Hong Kong and Guangdong Province. Some eminent citizens promised to emigrate if the plant was built.
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23/03/2011 | Frente Externo
Watching Cuba
Rising prices following years of economic failure, five decades of oppressive one-party rule, an aged first family, an education system producing graduates with few prospects, a rich exile community waiting in the wings.
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14/05/2010 | Economia y Finanzas
The Rush for Rare Metals
A bonanza in molybdenum: In a sure sign that metal bubbles are back, a great rush is on to make money from molybdenum. On May 3, the same day it was reported that an unlisted Chinese firm, Sichuan Hanlong, was to spend US$200 million on acquiring 55 percent of an Australian molybdenum project, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska announced the forthcoming listing of his molybdenum company, Strikeforce Mining, on the Hong Kong stock exchange. (Since this was written Strikeforce advised that its share offer was postponed due to the general deterioration in market sentiment).
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12/05/2010 | Economia y Finanzas
Is China Headed for a Crash?
China talk is confusing. The Shanghai stock market is at its lowest level in eight months, with the real estate sector especially hard-hit. Yet the media is focused on a property bubble that triggered another baby step by the government to rein in bank credit to head off speculation.
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23/02/2010 | Economia y Finanzas
Don't Panic over China's US Treasuries Sales
Who's hostage to whom?.The news that China sold US$34 billion worth of US treasury securities in December has mostly been greeted with suggestions that China is warning the US of its vulnerability to the ending of China's bond purchases. It has become part of the "China rules the world" mythology and is taken seriously by many Americans.
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26/09/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Modeling Korean unification
Looking across the Yalu River from shiny new Chinese buildings at the secret, dour world of poverty and oppression on the other side in North Korea, I am reminded of what it was like to look across the Shenzhen River from open, prosperous Hong Kong to Maoist China 30 years ago.
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