Shark fin soup: The taste of extinction

2011-08-09 15:17:10

If passed, the California state bill that prohibits the sale of shark fin and helps protect the threatened fish would affect Chinese Americans disproportionately, according to the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jonathan Gold in an op-ed piece on the website of The Los Angles Times on August 7, 2011.

China can't and won't save the world

2011-08-08 14:37:25

China has the wealth to come to the rescue of the financial markets, but it prefers to focus on its own problems, according to an article on The Telegraph on August 5, 2011.

US exports chopsticks to China

2011-08-05 14:30:31

The shortage of chopsticks in China has become so acute that a US company has begun exporting millions of pairs to the country, said an article on the website of The Telegraph on August 2, 2011.

US: A crisis of debt and of democracy

2011-08-03 16:26:20

What the US is facing is not only a debt crisis, but more of a democracy crisis, as the debt impasse has revealed that the relationship between the President and Congress has turned abnormal, said an op-ed piece in The New York Times on August 1, 2011.

Putin: US a "parasite" on world economy

2011-08-02 11:12:12

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.

Debt mess shows Washington's awful side

2011-08-01 14:10:34

Even if a bitterly divided Congress and President Barack Obama avoid a U.S. debt default by striking a last-second deal, as all sides expect, plenty of damage has been done.

China's rise a challenge to US dominance in Asia-Pacific

2011-07-29 13:52:24

With China's rise, the US, though still a huge military, diplomatic and economic presence in the Asia Pacific region, cannot safeguard its interests as forthrightly as it once could, said an article in The Financial Times on July 27, 2011.

EU and China's tech rise

2011-07-28 15:45:27

The US policy of scientific containment will prove as futile and economically harmful as its efforts to constrain Beijing's military modernization drive, according to Oliver Bräuner in a blog on the website of The Diplomat magazine on July 26, 2011.

Murdoch's misery, China's delight

2011-07-27 14:02:53

As China has endured lectures from the West about its press freedom, the West has set a daily example of irresponsibility and excess.

BRICS an overhyped challenge to US power

2011-07-26 16:13:53

The challenge of BRICS to the US is overly exaggerated, as BRICS is unlikely to become a serious alliance of like-minded states.

US default would hit Americans' wallets

2011-07-25 14:31:42

With the possibility of America defaulting on a debt payment just around the corner, Americans are hoping for the best but bracing for the worst.

China's military threat a tough political sell

2011-07-22 14:08:17

Most Republican Party candidates don't seem to regard China as a major military threat, although they do treat it as an economic problem, said Robert Farley in a column in World Politics Review on July 20.