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 4th May 07, Henry C K Liu , Asia Times
To set the stage for President Hu Jintao's April 2006 US visit, the September/October 2005 issue of Foreign Affairs published as its lead article "China's 'peaceful rise' to great power status" by Zheng Bijian, chairman of the influential China Reform Forum.
The term "peaceful rise" describes a policy of bringing China out of poverty by embracing economic globalization and improving relations with the rest of the world, as China's continued development depends on and will in turn reinforce world peace. Zheng wrote that "the most significant strategic choice the Chinese have made was to embrace economic globalization rather than detach themselves from it".
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 4th May 07, Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor
Corruption, overregulation, and lack of jobs contribute to the wide gap between India's rich and poor.
KORBA, INDIA - Bhan Sai makes about $1.40 a day. The minimum wage is almost twice that, but if he complains, he says, the steel mill will fire him. Squatting by the roadside after a shift, his hands chalk-white from work, he says he came from the neighboring state of Jharkhand for this job, leaving his home to live in a tent camp outside town. The bus fare from there is one-fifth of his daily salary. |
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 14 April 07 - Dipankar Bhattacharya, Countercurrents.orgWhen we are told that our economy is growing annually at an impressive 8 per cent per annum, we wonder what it is all about and where it disappears without leaving any trace in our daily lives. The latest Forbes list of global billionaires gives us some clue to resolve this riddle. According to this list there are 946 billionaire families in the world today and there are as many as 36 Indian names in this club of the world's wealthiest. This is 14 more than the number of Indians who had made it to the Forbes list last year, and the combined wealth of these 36 families amounts to $ 191 billion, which is one-fourth of India's GDP. |
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On March 16, 2007, Philippine police arrested veteran journalist, activist, former political prisoner and torture victim, Congressman Satur Ocampo, on the steps of the Philippine Supreme Court. One day earlier, in Washington DC, California Senator Barbara Boxer opened hearings on the mounting death squad executions and kidnappings in the Philippines. Nearly a thousand union leaders, clergy members, lawyers, human rights activists, peasants and elected officials of the social action party lists led by Representative Ocampo have been victimized.
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 14th March 07 - Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus It was unexpected. At the Seventh World Social Forum (WSF), held in Nairobi, Kenya, in late January, the most controversial topic was not HIV-AIDS, the U.S. occupation of Iraq, or neoliberalism. The topic that generated the most heat was China’s relations with Africa. At a packed panel discussion organized by a semi-official Chinese NGO, the discussion was candid and angry. “First, Europe and America took over our big businesses. Now China is driving our small and medium entrepreneurs to bankruptcy,” Humphrey Pole-Pole of the Tanzanian Social Forum told the Chinese speakers. “You don’t even contribute to employment because you bring in your own labor.” |
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26th Feb 07 - Nita Bhalla, Reuters India has higher levels of malnourished children than Sub-Saharan Africa, despite the Asian giant having more funds and better infrastructure to tackle the problem, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday February 21, 2007. |
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It is time for India and China to move beyond a history of conflicts and start cooperating politically, economically and technologically for mutual benefits, writes Dr Aqueil Ahmad.
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