By Mark Bahnisch on August 7, 2011
Political and military power lags behind economic power, but the bill falls due. This could be the way the hegemon ends, not with a bang but with a Tea Party.
Posted in China, Economics, Europe, Featured, Politics, USA, War | Tagged austerity, China, Chinese Communist Party, debt ceiling crisis, Economics, equity markets, Eurozone, GFC, political economy, standard and poor's, Tea Party, US dollar, Xinhua |
By Robert Merkel on August 3, 2011
It seems that the giant IT assembler Foxconn is seeking an alternative to paying its workers more – and the solution is more robots.
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Featured, Trade | Tagged automation, China, Foxconn, manufacturing |
By Guest Poster on October 10, 2010
Guest poster MH reflects on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, including its implications for the prospects for democracy in China. — RM. Late on Friday it was announced that Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been [...]
Posted in Activism, China, International | Tagged China, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize, nobel prize |
By Robert Merkel on August 13, 2010
If you want extended analysis of the foreign policy debate, there are a series of posts at the Lowy Interpreter trying to divine meaning from the minutiae. There was some pointscoring, of course – Smith had some good lines about [...]
Posted in China, federal election 2010, Foreign policy, International | Tagged China, Julie Bishop, Linda Mottram, Lowy Institute, Rory Metcalfe, Stephen Smith |
By Robert Merkel on July 22, 2010
Graeme Dobell at the Lowy Interpreter notes the report of the China Update conference – you can read the proceedings here. Dobell is particularly interested in the work of Ross Garnaut (chapter 2 of the proceedings). The key finding? There [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged China, Labour, migrant worker, Ross Garnaut, The Economist, Yao Yang |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 22, 2010
Paul Norton observed here at LP yesterday that we’re in uncharted psephological waters, with both major parties on low primaries and both leaders relatively unpopular. A host of questions have therefore arisen: about the likely flow of preferences from The [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, China, Dawson, Dennis Shanahan, Federal Election 2010, Flynn, Julia Gillard, Labor, Laura Tingle, Lindsay, Longman, marginal seats, media narrative, NBN, Newspoll, Page, parental leave, paul norton, Penrith by-election 2010, Peter Van Onselen, Poll Bludger, Polls, possum, rspt, Rudd governmment, Telstra, The Australian, The Greens, Tony Abbott, William Bowe |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 18, 2010
In the wake of Google’s changed stance toward the Chinese government, the company has now raised concerns about the Rudd government’s internet filter. In a piece in Crikey today, Jason Whittaker reported:
Posted in Authoritarianism, China, Politics, The Web | Tagged censorship, China, Crikey, filtering, google, implementation, internet, internet filtering, isps, Jason Whittaker, nocleanfeed, Rudd government, stephen conroy, web |
By Phil on January 13, 2010
Google. We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, China, Economics, Ethics, Foreign policy, Government, Law, Markets, Media, Nationalism, Policy, Politics, Security, Technology, Trade | Tagged China, google, internet, search |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 3, 2010
Open Democracy has asked a range of its contributors to answer the following questions: A volcanic decade in global politics ends amid deep unease about the world’s ability to rise to key 21st-century challenges. openDemocracy writers draw breath and look [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, International, Markets, Politics, Security, Sociology, Terrorism, The Web, War | Tagged agriculture, Authoritarianism, barack obama, China, civil liberties, Climate change, conflict resolution, Copenhagen, decade, democratisation, Developing world, development, ecology, end of history, food security, GFC, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, human rights, humanitarianism, inequality, international law, Madagascar, Mark Lynas, millennium goals, neo-liberalism, Open Democracy, peacekeeping, retrospective, statism, Terrorism, torture, UN, USA, War, world economy |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 11, 2009
Rupert Murdoch has stepped up his rhetoric about the evils of new media at a shindig in that bastion of press freedom, China. You can read all about it at Derek Barry’s Woolly Days. The sheer onion-ness of President Obama’s [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, China, International, Media, The Web | Tagged associated press, China, content, Derek Barry, future of media, google, Hu Jintao, internet, journalism, Media, media ownership, press freedom, Rupert Murdoch, social media, web 2.0, world media summit |
By Robert Merkel on May 20, 2009
The long-term future of our technological civilization depends on China and the USA participating in a serious global deal to cut CO2 emissions. But there’s long been skepticism whether either will be prepared to act. Now, there’s reports that China [...]
Posted in China, Climate change, Developing world, Environment, USA | Tagged China, cprs, emissions intensity, energy efficiency, USA |
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