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How the humble relative rises in Wen's China This article spends half the page defending old Grandpa Wen :what: But it gets the message through. On paper, none of the Chinese leaders are dirty or directly implicated in any wealth or scandals. But obviously such men of power would be pulling...

I'm not sure what you're implying because you should know Foxconn is actually one of the best paying manufacturing positions in the entire sector. Wages and living standards are higher in China than India despite Chinese being 'simple minded peasants'. As for the comments about servitude and...

These are high profile figures who have profited from corruption. But these are representative of the corruption in Indian and Chinese society. These are symptoms of the state of the government, not the cause. The need to give bribes and have patronage for advancement in many sectors of...

If you say that, does that mean Indian corruption has been eliminated significantly due to the virtues of democracy compared to authoritarian China? Once corruption takes root in a culture, it's awfully difficult to get rid of. If you're easily satisfied with rooting out one or two scapegoats...

The real question is how they get their money. Did they siphon off the funds from the government or just use their political position to make money? You don't get this rich from simply taking bribes and stealing money. It's a very widespread phenomenon you see in other economies as well where...

I'm talking about non-military applications of such technologies. It doesn't even need to be a missile. An emp bomb that wipes out the stock market exchange would be devastating for the economy.

If this weapon is used in a city, would you see everyone with pacemakers rolling over and dying? Cars crashing into each other? City emergency services shut down in the chaos? EMP weapons are destructive in their own way. I can see terrorists using these sort of weapons in places like hospitals.

When the British started allying with (and subjugating) South Asia, they didn't become the British-Indian Empire. If Japan and Vietnam ever rejoins, the nation will be called Japan. We're way past the ages of dynastic unions, not to mention one between a constitutional monarchy and a communist...

It's going to inspire a new wave of Bollywood Kung-Fu movies.

Can't imagine what they were thinking. Why would any European country needlessly antagonize China for the sake of a few rocks on the other side of the planet?

Apparently there was an important piece of news hidden in the latest economic figures from China. This can only be good news. The shift to domestic demand will be beneficial not just for China, but the global economy as a whole.

Maybe the Chinese like the ideas of democracy the same way western intellectuals like the idea of Marxism. A noble idea, but flawed in its execution. No-one could look at democratic representative governments like India and America without seeing the disruptive infighting between opposing...

The show has a sense of humor. They called the policy of pre-emptive nuclear strike the 'Bolton doctrine' after neo-con John Bolton. Maybe the show is anti-war after all? That's a refreshing thought.

All large militaries have the unfortunate fact to contain bad apples. Nothing special there. But it just casts a poor light on troops that are stationed on foreign soil and fail to win the hearts and minds of locals through such acts. How much does Japan pay for the privilege?

It's a real fine line between being a bureaucrat to advance the interests of yourself or the country. There's very few who would be completely to the latter. You can only try and influence them to serve the country more than themselves.

The map is from 2010. I think the fact India is still fighting an active low-intensity Naxalite insurgency throughout over one third of its territory would be indicative of an extreme terrorism risk. The Maoists actually have underground weapon factories pumping out weapons in major...

Apparently both Israel and Iran supported Australia for the Western and Other countries category over Finland and Luxembourg in the first round of voting. Funny, if it was true. www.smh.com.au - Iran, Israel key to Australia's UN win Is Australia seen as more of an independent middle power...

Isn't that the problem? An organization, especially one which evolves into a regional defense pact, based on consensus does not work if the members do not share the same interests in the most important areas regarding foreign policy. At least in the EU or NATO, European foreign policy...

If Huawei can take the market share from being more competitive than its peers and stay there, it'll end out on top in the long run. In a few decades, Huawei can benefit from its established market presence in developing countries as they become richer, offering an alternative to the European...

I think imported Chinese food isn't as dangerous as the hype, unlike what my family always tells me. Otherwise, you'll get reports of mass food poisoning from around the world every day. Domestic food in China though, you might want to be careful there.