Written by lookingbeyondbordersOctober 8, 2012

China Hands US Another Big Asia Win

China isn’t very good at foreign policy; that is the only way to make sense of the apparent decision by a number of large Chinese banks to boycott the annual meeting of the World Bank and the IMF scheduled for Tokyo next week. As the WSJ tells us, the decision comes as a result of the latest flare […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersOctober 4, 2012

Political Outsiders Are Challenging Asia’s Traditional Elites

A NEW force is emerging in Asian politics: the non-politician—or at least the politician posing as such. In South Korea the campaign for the presidential election in December has been shaken up by the new candidacy of an independent, Ahn Chul-soo, a former doctor turned antivirus-software tycoon. In Japan the new Japan Restoration Party (JRP), […]

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Political Outsiders Are Challenging Asia’s Traditional Elites

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