Robert Amsterdam’s speech on corporate foreign policy in Helsinki, Finland.
Financial Times columnist David Pilling has written a truly insightful piece, a report card on Chinese democracy and its progress in lieu of their recent hailing as a global superpower. Today, the Communist party of China’s “knife is sharper and the hemp less knotty: it rules largely through the consent of a population grateful for its [...]
Human rights activists in the growing superpower are backing the notion that the freedom of expression movement in China has dramatically shifted from Tiananmen Square to the information superhighway. With online censorship being a common enemy for the citizenry and their online personas, CNN’s Emily Chang below offers insight in to whether the internet truly [...]
CFP Contributor David Harris has provided below a valuable lesson on why and how westerners should invest in commodities and emerging markets: As the world sinks deeper into recession, rising oil prices are bringing comfort to the Middle East’s oil rich economies. Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia are attracting renewed interest from international investors, and stock [...]
Foreign Policy magazine has recently published an advertising supplement which I’ve found to be fairly factual amidst the odd tidbit of propaganda. I’ve decided to omit the portions I felt weren’t entirely factual, but include the majority of the piece, as I truly believe Angola will be a developing nation to watch, given the overwhelming [...]
The World Expo 2010, which will take place in Shanghai, China, will be the first registered World Exposition in a developing country and yet another opportunity for China to showcase its rise to superpower. Authorities have set aside an area twice the size of Monaco for the expo, which is expected to attract 70 million visitors [...]
This morning’s news blast featured two unique tidbits of information purposely positioned in succession. The first, that President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan announced that Chinese officials had dropped their objections to Taiwan’s participation as an observer at a United Nations body, a step forward in Taiwan’s effort to win greater international recognition. The second, that Taiwan’s third-largest telecoms service provider, Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. [...]
There are many initiatives currently undertaken by the international community to ‘aid‘ Africa. Most are now scrutinized, and rightly so, for being a strategic investment in a relationship with a growing geo-political force. In the tough times of a global economic recession, efficiency and swiftness sometimes outrank long-term growth, and figurative seed-planting for the future [...]
In the days following Jacob Zuma‘s rise to political power, one might forget an upcoming event that will change the way the world views South Africa henceforth – Fifa World Cup 2010. The event is one of the largest sporting spectaculars in the world, and the sport has perhaps the most incensed fan-base out of [...]
Growth in infrastructure at a devastating pace will no doubt be met with malpractice. Areas of substantial profit aren’t covered as meticulously as overall strategic implementation of expansion and growth, especially from newly-acclaimed superpower, China. Although intellectual property rights (IPRs) have been acknowledged and protected in the People’s Republic of China since 1979, abuse of IPRs has benefited [...]
