The world’s largest, fastest-emerging industrial economies are posing grave questions for the coming generation: for how long will the inequalities produced by the unending pursuit of economic growth remain sustainable, for how long will our finite natural resources last if they continue to be rapidly commercialised, and can the environment stand the future demand of several billion new consumers?
Unlike the police states of Eastern Europe and the
Soviet Union, China has built a Police State 2.0, an entirely
for-profit affair that is the latest frontier for the global Disaster
Capitalism Complex - and a society defined by "McCommunism", argues Naomi Klein.
A detailed analysis of nuclear weapons related developments in south Asia
since 1998 - and the contradiction of amassing nuclear arms in a bid to establish peace, by Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana.
Though China continues
to be a major player in global food exports, growing
resource constraints and environmental costs could
mean an end to “easy” growth for Chinese
agriculture.
Bunkered away in the centre of the country, the secret and reclusive generals who rule Myanmar fear all foreigners. A week after a deadly cyclone and facing huge pressure to open their country to international aid, they see everyone as a potential enemy intent on overthrowing their rule.
The West is projecting not only its own spiritual fantasies upon Tibet, but its own economic fears upon China, imagining a power struggle quite different from that which has actually happened in Tibet. We have to learn to look at Tibet as it is – and China too.