Modern-day piracy on the high seas continues to make the news. Recently, the U.S. Navy successfully tested a solid-state “anti-pirate” laser able to melt boat engines several miles away; Somali pirates have continued to hold several Indian crew members hostage… Continue Reading
In recent years, nature has not been kind to the quarter of humanity that lives just across the Pacific Ocean. Southwest China’s earthquake fatalities in Sichuan in 2008 numbered more than 60,000, in Qinghai in 2010 more than 2,000, and… Continue Reading
In the United States we like to think that globalization and the integration of national economies will gradually lead to the creation of a global public in which people everywhere come to think of themselves as sharing common goals, public… Continue Reading
Recently all eyes have been watching the fate of Google in China, but, out of sight, the cultural competition between China and America has picked up the pace. So what is the score now? In summer 2009, China’s central government… Continue Reading
Economic recession. National security and foreign wars. Health care. Global warming. America is currently facing many policy issues that require long-term solutions, ones demanding intelligence, creativity and resources from future generations of Americans. How are we preparing young Americans to… Continue Reading
Is President Obama “advertising weakness” in Asia? Conservative critics, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, have accused Obama of practicing a destructive “diplomacy of deference” in which American supremacy overseas is weakened by inept public diplomacy. Obama’s bow to the… Continue Reading
Shanghai is now truly a global city. Not because it is the financial center of the country that holds an estimated $2 trillion in U.S. currency and assets. And not because next year it will host the first World Expo… Continue Reading