Cooperation in Asia! bah!

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Big news in the past week about how the ASEAN nations got together (all making pretend nice with Myanmar) and wrote a document about how they may one day be like the European Union. The document firmly committed to every country closing their eyes, clicking their heels twice and wishing ...

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Like a whirlwind

Monday, November 5th, 2007

The Economist had a clever piece on Chinese financial company's acquiring resources abroad. Most notably the ICBC - Standard bank deal, which made ICBC a 20% owner of the largest financial institution in Africa. The general thrust of the article is that since China has been thus far blocked from ...

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Why globalization is better than a brick in the face

Monday, October 29th, 2007

I came to an interesting revelation the other day, while I was reading about the protests surrounding the big IMF, G7, World Bank meetings, with their references to top hats and big steaks, and hitting women in the faces with bricks lastish week. All good fun... but this led me ...

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