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.
On the streets of London, the Chinese dictatorship has just learned with a painful jab that their Olympic Slogan – "One World, One Dream" – is true. In every city the Olympic torch sashays through on its world tour, its greeting is the same.
It is now thirty years since the People's Republic of China announced its market reform policy at the Third Plenum of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1978, under the then new leadership of Deng Xiaoping.