Written by lookingbeyondbordersNovember 22, 2012

How Putin Is Turning Russia Into One Big Enron

In a few quick decisions, President Vladimir Putin has devastated Russia’s energy policy. This daring radical change of strategy will primarily hit state revenues. The essence of these policy changes is renationalization, a massive increase in capital expenditure and reduced efficiency. For years,Gazprom has carried out too large capital expenditures, 70 percent of which investment analysts euphemistically with call “value detraction,” which really means corruption or […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersNovember 22, 2012

Who Won?

EVEN before the firing between Israel and Hamas had fully died away in the wake of the ceasefire announced on the night of November 21st, two new/old battle-fronts had opened up for Binyamin Netanyahu and his ministers. The first is over public and governmental opinion in the region; the second over the support of the […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersNovember 22, 2012

Ticket To Paradise In A Brutal World

Kasab, the world came to call him, “the butcher”: butcher not because he shot dead 55 women, men and children, Hindu and Muslim at short range with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, but because it denoted his underprivileged southern Punjab caste. For millions of Indians, the man caught on closed circuit television cameras as he walked […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersNovember 21, 2012

In Syria, A Rare Chinese Foray Into Foreign Policy

This month, a curious thing happened in the annals of diplomacy. A country offered up a peace plan to put an end to a seemingly endless civil war in Syria. This country was not one of the usual foreign policy suspects — it was not the United States, it was not in Europe, and it wasn’t Syria’s […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersNovember 21, 2012

Viewpoint – Time To Push Back Over Sri Lankan Impunity

International attention on Sri Lanka has focused recently on a devastating report from the United Nations reviewing its own failure to protect civilians during the humanitarian catastrophe of the final months of the island nation’s civil war in 2009. Yet as many in the international community have been looking back, a new, quieter crisis is […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersNovember 21, 2012

Asia’s Top Economies Aim for Trade Deal as Sea Dispute Set Aside

China, Japan and South Korea started talks on a free-trade agreement vital to an Asia-wide deal in a move to forge closer economic ties even as they spar over disputed islands. The countries, representing three of Asia’s four biggest economies, will hold the first round of talks early next year, according to Xinhua, China’s official […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersNovember 20, 2012

What Obama Wants From Myanmar

Not too long ago it would have been unthinkable: the sight of a U.S. president standing next to Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman many believe should be — and might yet become — the president of her long-suffering country, Myanmar (also known as Burma). When Barack Obama was first elected to the White House […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersNovember 20, 2012

Xi Warns of Regime’s Demise Unless China Tackles Graft

Xi Jinping, the new head of China’s ruling Communist Party, told his fellow leaders that unless they address corruption social unrest may rise and it could lead to the demise of the party. “The preponderance of facts tell us that the more severe the corruption problem becomes, it will ultimately lead the party and the nation […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersNovember 19, 2012

Russia’s Stealth Fighter Could Match U.S. Jets, Analyst Says

Russia’s T-50 stealth fighter prototype, the first radar-evading warplane outside the U.S. when it debuted in January 2010, is slightly less stealthy than the American F-22 and about equal to the smaller F-35. But in several other respects the new warplane from the Russian Sukhoi design bureau is actually superior to the American models. That’s the […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersNovember 19, 2012

Corporate China’s Black Hole of Debt

For China bulls, things are starting to look up. The property market has been showing signs of life, and October retail sales, investment, and industrial production have come in above forecasts. A manufacturing index also showed improvement, and exports increased 11.6 percent in October, the fastest pace in five months. Yet one figure is going in […]

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How Putin Is Turning Russia Into One Big Enron

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Who Won?

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Ticket To Paradise In A Brutal World

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In Syria, A Rare Chinese Foray Into Foreign Policy

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Viewpoint – Time To Push Back Over Sri Lankan Impunity

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Asia’s Top Economies Aim for Trade Deal as Sea Dispute Set Aside

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What Obama Wants From Myanmar

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Xi Warns of Regime’s Demise Unless China Tackles Graft

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Russia’s Stealth Fighter Could Match U.S. Jets, Analyst Says

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Corporate China’s Black Hole of Debt

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