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The New Arms Race

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - America will not win the arms race of the 21st century with rockets, but with robust investment in and support of U.S.-based green technology. While Congress dawdles, China is clobbering us.

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Op-Ed Columnist: World Out of Balance

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 15 (Opinion) - But let’s hope that when the cameras aren’t rolling Mr. Obama and his hosts engage in some frank talk about currency policy. For the problem of international trade imbalances is about to get substantially worse. And there’s a potentially ugly confrontation looming unless China mends its ways.

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China leaving US behind in green energy

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Joan Fitzgerald - Oct. 22 (Opinion) - Though aspects of it may violate the WTO, China has a coherent industrial policy to capture global leadership, while US initiatives are fragmented. China recognized that the real economic development potential in renewable energy is in manufacturing, which comprises 70 -75 percent of the jobs in solar, and now has more than 100 solar companies that account for one-third of global solar component production.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Fie, Fatal Flaw!

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Maureen Dowd - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - President Obama’s legislative career offers cautionary tales about the toll of constant consensus building.

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Freedom From Foreign Oil

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

American Spectator - By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. - Oct. 01 - Freedom From Foreign Oil

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How to Press the Advantage With Iran

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - Instead of relying on sanctions, the Obama administration should seek a strategic realignment with Iran, as President Nixon did with China.

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The Meaning of Freedom

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Sep. 29 (Editorial) - The question is far from academic, as illustrated poignantly by the case of brothers Bahtiyar Mahnut and Arkin Mahmud. As reported by The Post's Del Quentin Wilber, the brothers are Uighurs, Chinese Muslims who face oppression, intimidation and often

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Can Obama Save the Global Economy (and Globalization) at the G-20?

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Esquire - By Thomas P.M. Barnett - Sep. 25 (Opinion) - What does this "rebalancing" play from Washington amount to? In a nutshell, a near-term future in which America consumes less and China consumes a helluva lot more. But Obama's "framework" also promises diplomatic cover for all sides in this rebalancing process by empowering the International Monetary Fund to monitor G-20 member pledges and flag them for consultations if voluntary targets aren't being met. Since sanctions never work (even if Dmitri Medvedev and the West Wing think they're inevitable), this transparent approach is considered ideal — in effect, a multilateral version of the shaming technique historically employed by the IMF (and by the U.S. against mercantilist Japan in years past).

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Copenhagen Climate Talks: Why They May Fail

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Sharon Begley - Sep. 24 (Opinion) - This is Climate Week here in New York City, so if you have been swept up in the excitement over Hugh Jackman's lending his celebrity to the cause of averting a catastrophic greenhouse effect ("people in developing countries have contributed the least to climate change and are suffering the most from it," he said at Monday's opening ceremony at the New York Public Library), or President Obama's speech at the United Nations Tuesday warning of “irreversible catastrophe" if the nations of the world do not cut carbon emissions, you might feel optimistic that the nations of the world will get their acts together enough to produce a climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. Forgive me for being the skunk at this greenhouse-gas-enhanced garden party.

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China gets serious about carbon emissions, global warming

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:39:34 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Sep. 23 - Globe and MailChina gets serious about carbon emissions, global warmingChristian Science MonitorAt UN, China's Hu Jintao commits to measurable limits on carbon emissions for the first time. Chinese environmental activists hail the shift toward low-carbon technology. By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Beijing - The ...Obama to world: Don't expect America to fix it allThe Associated PressChina's green policy lauded at UN climate summitXinhuaObama to address world at UNAFPWashington Post?-Bloomberg?-Telegraph.co.ukall 1,798 news articles??

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Chinese Exceptionalism

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Philip Bowring - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - Many countries, with China the most vociferous, wish for a more balanced world in which other currencies play significant roles in trade finance, capital flows and exchange reserves. But while the cries against U.S. privileges ring out loud and clear, scant notice is taken of the exceptionalism successfully pursued by China.

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Who’s The Climate-Change Bad Guy?

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Keith Johnson - Sep. 21 (Opinion) - There is a new storyline emerging ahead of this week’s talks on climate change. China has somehow emerged as the good guy, and the U.S., less than a year after the election of Barack Obama, is again the villain.

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Tired Protectionism

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Sep. 19 (Editorial) - After President Obama decided to impose a 35 percent tariff on Chinese-made tires, China reacted angrily and predictably: threatening to impose its own tariffs on American auto products and chicken meat. Nationalist bloggers urged China’s leaders to

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Will Obama rue his trade tariff on China's tires?

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Sep. 16 (Editorial) - In a break from recent presidents, Barack Obama has taken America down a new economic path by proposing a novel idea: The US can expand free trade by sometimes restricting it. In a way, he's saying that less trade in some instances might mean more trade. He laid out his reasoning after announcing last week that he placed a 35 percent tariff on imports of vehicle tires from China.

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Would China put sanctions on U.S.?

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

American Public Media - By Steve Chiotakis, Scott Tong - Sep. 14 (Interview) - Late Friday night, the White House imposed 35 percent tariffs on tires from China, a move Beijing is calling "grave protectionism." Will China put tariffs on American products? Steve Chiotakis talks to Scott Tong in Shanghai.

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Speak Up to Stop Unfair Trade | OurFuture.org

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

OurFuture.org - By Leo Gerard - Aug. 13 (Opinion) - China is attacking the U.S. with a stealth weapon of mass economic destruction – unfair trade. U.S. corporations – and China – that profiteer from it prefer to label this “free trade.”

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Why isn't the Muslim world speaking up in defense of the Uighurs?

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Moisés Naím - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - ... in different countries, mullahs, imams, and assorted clerics have found the time to issue fatwas condemning among other practices, Pokémon cartoons, total nudity during sex for married couples, and the use of vaccines against polio, not to mention Salman Rushdie. They have yet to find the time to say anything about China's practices toward Uighurs.

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The Importance of Free Speech Online in Iran, China, Kenya

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PBS - By Mark Glaser, Kim Spencer, Scott Rosenberg, Cyrus Farivar, Danny O'Brien, - Jul. 10 (Interview) - In a crisis, governments will often curtail freedom of the press, censoring or shutting broadcasts and newspapers. But blocking websites, slowing the Internet or cutting off SMS messaging can be harder to do. Stopping the flow of information online can be a difficult task, as the Iranian government has learned over the past few weeks, as protesters have posted images to Flickr, video to YouTube, and running commentaries on blogs and Twitter. While the Iranian government would prefer to operate under a cloud, the Interent has proven to be a key distribution medium for spreading news to the rest of the world. This month's 5Across video roundtable focused on free speech online in various countries, from Iran to China to Kenya -- and even a mention of the U.S. government's attempts at curtailing speech online over the years. The discussion gave context to Iranian Internet use, its demographics and the way people there get information via satellite TV from Persian-language foreign news sources such as BBC Persian and Voice of America. Plus, we talked about how China uses psychology in making its millions of Internet users believe they are all being monitored.

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Free speech vs. surveillance in the digital age

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

dailytidings.com - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 27 (Opinion) - The Chinese government now requires any computer sold there after July 1, 2009, to include software called "Green Dam," which critics say will further empower the government to monitor Internet use. Josh Silver, executive director of media policy group Free Press, says Iran and China should alert us to domestic surveillance issues in the U.S.

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1979 : The Great Backlash

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Christian Caryl - Jun. 22 (Opinion) - If you want to understand the surge of politicized religion, post-communist globalization, and laissez-faire economics that has defined our modern era, forget 1968. Forget even 1989. It's 1979 that's the most important year of all. A remarkable chapter in international affairs—and intellectual history—began that year, and it had the strangest group of authors imaginable.

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Authoritarian states' knack for capitalism has let them buy credibility while reducing political freedoms

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Moran - Jun. 12 (Opinion) - The reemergence of authoritarian powers has been a hot topic among foreign policy thinkers in the past few years. These states find capitalism perfectly acceptable — a few are even getting quite good at it — even as they despise and restrict the freedoms taken for granted by citizens in liberal democracies. China’s economic power, and to a lesser extent, the cash reserves that similarly authoritarian regimes in Russia, Venezuela and Iran have accrued selling oil and natural gas, have given them new credibility in the world. While these countries are vastly different, they are playing a similar game.

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Some thoughts on democracy/authoritarianism day

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Joshua Keating - Jun. 04 (Opinion) - Sometimes the news-cycle fates align nicely to highlight a question deserving of more discussion. Today, that question was what role democracy promotion should play in the Obama administration's foreign policy and how the U.S. should interact with odious but strategically useful authoritarian regimes.

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Tiananmen: Shouts That Turned To Silence

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio - By Alisa Barba - May. 31 (Opinion) - I sent a man to labor camp 20 years ago this week. His name was Xiao Bin. He was 42 years old, a factory worker from the northeast Chinese city of Dalian. It was a day after the Chinese troops had cleared out Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing. It was June of 1989. The city was a wreck: streets still full of burned debris; roaming crowds of angry and excited citizens; tanks still playing chicken with students on the main thoroughfare.

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North Korea, the Next Iraq?

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Robert D. Kaplan - May. 28 (Opinion) - If he doesn’t hit North Korea hard with sanctions, he risks demonstrating to Iran that America is a pushover. Indeed, Obama’s Iran policy – which requires the stick of tough action in addition to the carrot of talks and recognition – is on the line in North Korea. On the other hand, vigorous sanctions against North Korea could lead to the collapse of the regime. And anyone who talks breezily about “helping” North Korea to collapse has simply not learned the lesson of Iraq: The only thing worse than a totalitarian state is no state at all.

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Amnesty International Human Rights Report: 'We Are Seeing a Catastrophe' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Der Spiegel - May. 28 (Interview) - This is very worrying. Obama has been alarmingly ambiguous on the issue, hinting at some new legislation. But incarceration without a trial can never be within the rule of law. We are asking the government in Washington to release all innocent prisoners from Guantanamo and to try the rest in a US court. The government should show some confidence in its own justice system.

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