This is probably the best international dispute I have ever seen.
2009年2月26日 星期四
Ain't it so cool?
Just after Clinton's visit to China, U.S. issued a government report criticizing China's human right (related article). However, China has risen and for sure actions will be taken when irritated. This time, China fights back with an official report criticizing America's human right (in chinese, in english).
Points To Be Addressed
Which way, left or right?
Undoubtable, China-US relation is important. To those once vibrant asian tigers, its importance is much amplified in the present gloomy global economy. Bunch of scenarios have been proposed for the future development of the relationship between China and America. However, maybe we should not take these scenarios as answers but a map.
What does a map offers us? Find a route to the end, many say. This is correct indeed. But a map also tells us what we will see or experience in different routes. This information may be even more important when we do not know the end.
This is exactly the situation now. We do not really know what kind of relationship China and America will finally have. It is hard to predict. People change; people want different things; people make different decisions. The end is therefore a dynamic one and, probably, there wont be an end. But remember, a map tells us not only how to achieve the end, but also what happen on the way. Therefore, if we have a situation like this: don't know where to go but must go, maybe it is better to be aware of what will happen.
This is even more important to those asian tigers for they have no or only little impact on those decision makers in Beijing and Washington. So, how to deal with this? Well, map is there. The more scenarios are collected, the clearer the map is. And to know what may happen, one should know which direction that China and America will take.
Hillary Clinton's asian trip is a sign: a sign showing which point China and America weight more. China's political reform and human right? Global warming and environmental issues? If it is the former been addressed more, China and America may have a better relation in the long run and simultaneously solve the environmental problems. If it is the latter dominating the dialogue, then non of them can stop protectionism and global environment is actually threatened.
Undoubtable, China-US relation is important. To those once vibrant asian tigers, its importance is much amplified in the present gloomy global economy. Bunch of scenarios have been proposed for the future development of the relationship between China and America. However, maybe we should not take these scenarios as answers but a map.
What does a map offers us? Find a route to the end, many say. This is correct indeed. But a map also tells us what we will see or experience in different routes. This information may be even more important when we do not know the end.
This is exactly the situation now. We do not really know what kind of relationship China and America will finally have. It is hard to predict. People change; people want different things; people make different decisions. The end is therefore a dynamic one and, probably, there wont be an end. But remember, a map tells us not only how to achieve the end, but also what happen on the way. Therefore, if we have a situation like this: don't know where to go but must go, maybe it is better to be aware of what will happen.
This is even more important to those asian tigers for they have no or only little impact on those decision makers in Beijing and Washington. So, how to deal with this? Well, map is there. The more scenarios are collected, the clearer the map is. And to know what may happen, one should know which direction that China and America will take.
Hillary Clinton's asian trip is a sign: a sign showing which point China and America weight more. China's political reform and human right? Global warming and environmental issues? If it is the former been addressed more, China and America may have a better relation in the long run and simultaneously solve the environmental problems. If it is the latter dominating the dialogue, then non of them can stop protectionism and global environment is actually threatened.
2009年2月24日 星期二
If You Don't Have Any Fresh Ideas
"If you don't have any fresh ideas," Obama criticized the republican nominee loudly in the democratic national convention on Oct. 28, 2008 "then you use stale tactics to scare voters." But one probably could say "if you don't have any fresh ideas," when it comes to the european policies led by Germany and France toward Iraq, "follow the Americans."Let's have a look of two pieces of news,
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