The People’s Republic of China has long been seen as a rising global superpower, projected to overtake the United States as the world’s leading economic superpower. Experts believing in China’s “inevitable” rise to the top have assumed that China’s meteoric growth rate and, by extension, growing political power would propel the communist country to the...
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It Is Time to Get Serious About Climate Change
This essay is written largely to those on the right of center on the political spectrum. I myself used to be sceptical on the theory of man-made climate change, but witnessing the proliferation and heightened intensity of extreme weather events over the last several years has made me rethink my position. Hopefully, my perspective...
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ObaMao a Hit in China
According to the Associated Press and the Houston Chronicle, President Obama’s recent visit to China prompted a controversy over certain lines of Obama memorabilia sold there. Liu Minjie owns a shop in China that (once) sold T-shirts and other merchandise decorated with a likeness of Obama manipulated to look like Mao Zedong, the architect of...