Tonight, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took to the stage of the Republican National Convention and brought the crowd to its feet. In fact, they barely had a chance to sit down. With her emphasis on the great opportunities
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Angola sends 37 Chinese gangsters back to China Angola’s Chinese-built ghost town Germany’s Angela Merkel tries to halt anti-Greece panic China condemns Mitt Romney’s ‘Cold War mentality’ Angola sends 37 Chinese gangsters back to
By TAMARA LUSHAssociated PressTAMPA, Fla.The few hundred protesters gathered under rainy skies in a park about a half-mile from the GOP convention on Sunday said an impending hurricane that is supposed to dump heavy rains on Tampa won’t deter them
In a cramped and tiny office in the South Korean capital, an 80-year-old man displays letters postmarked “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” in pale red ink. The imprints with North Korea’s official name testify to Kim Kyung-Jae’s success in reconnecting
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Nato airstrike kills Pakistan Taliban leader in Afghanistan Pakistan prepares to eject Afghanistan refugees Pakistani immigrants protest in Syntagma square in Athens, Greece Corrections to yesterday’s World View (corrected online): Warren E. Pollock interviews
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Greece’s cash reserves will last until middle of October U.N. forms a special ‘Iran team’ to investigate nuclear program Egypt’s President Morsi issues decree freeing jailed journalist Large anti-Muslim Brotherhood rally planned in Cairo
China will give 30 million yuan ($4.7 million) in humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. The aid will go to refugees in Jordan and Lebanon to “show Chinese people’s
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL 9) failed to appear at a protest that she helped organize Tuesday night in Evanston, Illinois, wherein demonstrators delivered petitions to Bain Capital’s local office. Despite Schakowsky’s failure to show, Huffington Post is now claiming Schakowsky, a co-chair
(AP) Biden: Wall St. reform critics ‘squealing pigs’By MATTHEW DALYAssociated PressMINNEAPOLISVice President Joe Biden, who will be a Democratic presence in Florida next week as Republicans gather to nominate their presidential candidate, on Tuesday compared GOP critics of the Obama
Japan will shortly replace its ambassadors to China, South Korea and the United States in an unusual simultaneous move amid difficulties in Tokyo’s dealings with all three, reports said. Japanese media has also reported in the past few days the
Get ready for the assault on Niall Ferguson. Harvard is not a friendly and open place. It’s a place that often demands ideological conformity, as current Obama economic advisor Lawrence Summers found out when he had the temerity to suggest
The Environmental Protection Agency, created in 1970 with the noble and simplemission of protecting the nation’s air and water, should be hailed as one of the federalgovernment’s greatest success stories. Alas, the EPA has morphed into a job-killing enemy of
(AP) Wife of disgraced Chinese politician sentencedBy GILLIAN WONGAssociated PressHEFEI, China The wife of a disgraced Chinese politician received a suspended death sentence Monday for the murder of a British businessman, as authorities move to tidy up a huge political
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Anti-Japanese nationalist riots erupt in cities across China California hopes to stop bankruptcies by anticipating bankruptcy Real-money bets on poker, slots and other Vegas games coming to iPhones Credibly charged serial rapist Julian Assange
With drought parching farms in the United States and near the Black Sea, weak monsoon rains in India and insidious hunger in Africa’s Sahel region, the world could be headed towards another food crisis, experts say. Asia should keep a
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com South Africa racial tensions revived with bloody mine workers confrontation BBC’s Humphrey Hawksley scammed by HSBC bank Japanese officials to visit disputed islands after ‘stunt’ by Chinese activists China protests visit by Japanese nationalists
At last month’s annual conference of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a bipartisan group of legislators “amended a model resolution in opposition to federal efforts to enhance global tax enforcement,” write Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist and Patrick Gleason
Campaigning in North Canton, Ohio, on Thursday, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan slammed President Obama for not following through with promises to stop China’s illegal trade practices.
(AP) Ecuador decision on Assange asylum dueBy GONZALO SOLANOAssociated PressQUITO, EcuadorIn the two months since Julian Assange ducked into Ecuador’s London embassy to seek political asylum, President Rafael Correa has been consistently deferential to Britain while insisting on his right
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Sectarian tensions grow as Shias in Lebanon kidnap Sunni Syrians Sunni Arab countries urge their citizens to leave Lebanon Reporters witness Assad regime bombing of women and children Anniversary of Japanese surrender triggers heightened
By JOE McDONALDAP Business WriterBEIJINGJust a few years after Chinese companies lined up to sell shares on Wall Street, a growing number are reversing course and pulling out of U.S. exchanges. This week, Focus Media Holding Ltd., announced its chairman
China said Tuesday it signed agreements with North Korea pushing forward their joint development of economic zones, as the new leader in Pyongyang seeks to improve his country’s impoverished economy. The agreements cover the setting up and operation of management
The law of unintended consequences is immutable. It happens most often when the desire to achieve a particular end is so focused it ignores the consequences of the means employed to reach that goal. In contrast, there are times when
By DANIEL WAGNERAP Business WriterU.S. stocks fell Monday as evidence piled up that the global economic slowdown is dragging on Asia. Japan’s economy grew in the second quarter at a 1.4 percent annual rate, slower than many analysts had expected.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com China’s neighbors pick sides in South China Sea dispute Egypt’s Morsi fires the army chief and announces a Constitutional Declaration Egypt forces fight Sinai militants, in biggest battle since 1973 China’s neighbors pick sides
