Tag Archives: Asia

If you want to know what deep yogurt is like, this is it

February 4, 2010 – 9:15 am

Japan is up the creek without a paddle. It’s pretty remarkable to hear a BoJ governor saying things that some aggressive hedge-fund guys have been whispering for a while now.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Blogs, Markets & Policy | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments

Arms and Taiwan: The US Must Respond to China’s Nuclear North Korea

February 1, 2010 – 9:56 am

If we’re really serious about putting pressure on China, boosting Taiwan’s security, and giving Taiwan a deterrent that doesn’t depend on the U.S. Navy, then we should quietly assist Taiwan to acquire the technology to develop its own ballistic missiles, and do nothing to discourage its acquisition of nuclear weapons. Just like China did for North Korea.

By Joshua Stanton | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments

Obama’s Foreign Policy: Shakedown 1979

November 24, 2009 – 1:46 am

The evidence suggests that Obama foreign policy is like Obama campaign promises: destined to be realized in some shadowy future likely – but not certain – to come, yet already awarded rich accolades merely for promise. It appears to be premised on the idea that the Carter Administration was not inherently wrong on anything – just well ahead of its time.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments

The End of Chinamerica?

November 23, 2009 – 4:07 pm

The ever-interesting Niall Ferguson is prophesying an end to the dysfunctional Sino-American relationship of the last two decades.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Blogs, Hegemon | Also tagged , , | Comments

Surprise! (Trade Policy Edition)

November 19, 2009 – 7:29 pm

Asian leaders prefer Bush trade policies to Obama trade policies.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments

What Japan’s Elections Mean For America

August 31, 2009 – 12:44 am

What do Japan’s elections mean for the United States? Japan’s dramatic electoral turn this weekend, in which the center-right longtime ruling party of the LDP was rejected in favor of the DPJ and Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama, is the subject of the latest forum of the New Ledger’s editors.

By Ben Domenech | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments

The Decline And Fall Of The . . . Oh, This Is Getting Old

July 7, 2009 – 4:04 pm

As an 80s child, I remember well all of the dour, solemn, and alarmed predictions that eventually, Japan would overtake the United States in terms of economic power, and that this would signal a decline in America’s overall ability to influence world events.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments

Barack Obama’s India-Pakistan Mess

April 13, 2009 – 12:59 am

What Team Obama has given us thus far is not a foreign policy, it is a mess. It is not realism, but a resignation to the way the world wants to go, a rejection of the idea that America can influence it. It is a destruction of years of bipartisan effort to align democracies with common interests against failed states and rising tyrants, from which no good is coming.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments

China’s Unlimited Aims

February 15, 2009 – 11:07 am

For nearly thirty years, we have cavalierly assumed that China’s determination to grow wealthy will make it a democracy, without once checking the a priori assumption that all men long for freedom as one of their most cherished dreams. Every American President since 1988 has allowed hope and projection to supplant objectively viewing China and its foreign policy. We are paying the price for it now.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, News | Also tagged , , | Comments
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