New York Times’ take on China’s emergence as a global power.

Indian soldiers at the Buddhist monastery in Tawang, India, in June. There is a massive Indian military buildup in the area

• Uneasy Engagement - China Spreads Aid in Africa, With a Catch - Series - NYTimes.com
  Published: September 22, 2009
  Source: www.nytimes.com
  Anticorruption crusaders complain that China’s foreign aid secrecy invites corruption, and that corruption debases the assistance.
• Uneasy Engagement - China and India Dispute Enclave on Edge of Tibet - Series - NYTimes.com
  Published: September 22, 2009
  Source: www.nytimes.com
  Uneasy EngagementChina and India Dispute Enclave on Edge of Tibet Shiho Fukada for The New York TimesIndian soldiers at the Buddhist monastery in Tawang, India, in June. There is a massive Indian military build...
• Uneasy Engagement - Australia, Nourishing China’s Economic Engine, Questions Ties - Series - NYTimes.com
  Published: September 22, 2009
  Source: www.nytimes.com
  Uneasy EngagementAustralia, Nourishing China’s Economic Engine, Questions Ties Glenn HuntThe Rio Tinto mining company. A Chinese company has bid for $19.5 billion Rio Tinto stock. Sign in to Recommend...
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The Washington Post had a story the other day about how the NFL is trying to get 1.6 billion people in China to watch the NFL; they’ve decided to send a Taiwanese boy-band roaming through the United States, learning about football culture. Read the rest of this entry »

Wired has a thought-provoking article, one that may help explain more than changes in current consumption patterns. Robert Capps looks at a number of seemingly disparate phenomenon – successful and widely popular products and practices such as netbooks, Flip digital videorecorders, MP3 format, and even the unmanned Predator military aircraft and Kaiser Permanente’s micro-clinics – as markers of a change in the way people think. Low-end products, with results that are “good enough” to be enjoyable, are well-suited to our contemporary culture, a culture that has been greatly structured by technology and socioeconomic and political stress.
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