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Libya: Where Are the BRICs?

by Ben Zala | Mar 21, 2011

Following the vote at the UN Security Council, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States have embarked on military action against Gaddafi’s forces in Libya. They have been careful to include a few Arab states in this new coalition of the willing. But these three countries are the driving force behind the imposition of a no-fly zone and the attacks on the government’s military positions and forces. Yet among the permanent and non-permanent member of the Council who were asked to authorize “all necessary measures” to protect civilians rebelling against the regime, the BRIC powers of Brazil, Russia, India, and China were conspicuously absent.

True Reason for China’s Appeal to American Industry Even More Shameful Than Low Wages

by Russ Wellen | Feb 26, 2011

The real story of why American industry moves to China may never be told in the mainstream media.

Food Security and National Security

by Jim Harkness | Feb 23, 2011

Sounding the alarm about various threats posed by a rising China has become a cottage industry among pundits and politicians. One of the oldest warnings is that China’s increasing demand for food will wreak havoc on international markets, causing mass starvation in food-importing countries. But this concern ignores the safeguards China has in place for food shortages and the lessons the rest of the world could learn from this approach.

Beijing and Washington: Things That Go Bang

by Conn Hallinan | Feb 23, 2011

On the surface, the antagonism between China and the United States resembles the imperial competition between Britain and Germany at end of the 19^th century. But the world of 2011 is very different than in 1914. It is far more connected, far more interdependent, with the consequences from rivalries far more dangerous. Now every time either side brings in its military, tensions increase and solutions turn elusive.

As Egypt Protesters Look to U.S. in Vain, Remembering Another Lost Opportunity

by Hannah Gurman | Jan 30, 2011

U.S. support for an authoritarian regime is by no means a new phenomenon nor is it peculiar to the Middle East.

WikiLeaks XXXIV: Hu a “Cautious, Vacillating Leader” (Who Does That Sound Like?)

by Michael Busch | Jan 26, 2011

As in the United States, the military and big business in China aren’t shy about challenging the executive office.

Secret SOTU

by John Feffer | Jan 25, 2011

I’ve never met President Obama, never been invited to any White House confabs. I’ve never even been able to sit through one of his speeches. But my office is about six blocks away from the White House. So, like any good Washington pundit who imagines that proximity translates into perceptiveness, I feel entirely qualified to look into the president’s eyes to get a sense of his soul. Here’s what I believe President Obama will be thinking as he reads off the teleprompter.

New Year 2011, Okinawa and the Future of East Asia

by Gavan McCormack, Norimatsu Satoko, Mark Selden | Jan 18, 2011

The mood across East Asia as 2011 dawns is one of foreboding. Can the militarization and confrontation that gathered momentum through 2010 in the spiral of incidents (Cheonan in March, Senkaku in September, Yeonpyeong in November) and massive regional war rehearsals by the US and its allies be halted and reversed? The fear that events might slide during 2011 into catastrophe is hard to resist.

Is China Greening Africa?

by Stephen Marks | Dec 25, 2010

Is China smartening up its environmental and social act in Africa? It certainly wants to be seen as doing just that. One telling example was the recent Chinese government-sponsored ‘top Chinese enterprises in Africa’ competition, won by China Road and Bridge Corporation [CRBC].

The China-Philippines-U.S. Triangle

by Richard Javad Heydarian | Dec 16, 2010

The United States is, by far, the Philippines’ most important strategic security partner. China’s ascent as a regional Asia Pacific powerhouse, coupled with the relative decline of the United States, has threatened to reconfigure this equation. Yet China’s growing assertiveness over territorial claims from Northeast Asia to the South China Sea might also unravel two decades of its relatively successful charm offensive, which calmed the nerves of many anxious Southeast Asian nations. Any display of aggression by China in the South China Sea could compromise its relations with the Philippines.