Dark Clouds over the Global Economy
By Raul de Sagastizabal The downgrade of American bonds along with the problems of the European over-indebtedness increases the fear of a recession or a sharp slowdown in the global economy. Much of the market turmoil More...
China Alone Abides by Commitments to World’s Poorest
By Raul de Sagastizabal The WTO member countries are moving towards the Eighth Ministerial Conference in Doha next December, again with no concrete results, even on issues relating to least-developed Countries More...
The Scramble for Europe
By Raúl de Sagastizabal The impact of Chinese purchases and investments in Europe The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a think-tank founded in 2007, has published a report titled “The Scramble for More...
Is there a Role for Human Rights in a Free Trade World?
Up to 50,000 people a day die from poverty related causes with 22,000 of these fatalities being children under the age of five. The plight of the world’s most impoverished and vulnerable people have been further More...
India Deploys 36,000 Troops to Chinese Border
India is stepping up efforts to fortify its borders with a deployment of two new army divisions of 36,000 men to the north-easter border with China. According to BBC News 23 November, part of the troops will be More...
The Chinese Dragon Pounces on Europe
German indignation at China’s audacious economic penetration of Europe has been dismissed as sour grapes by Zhang Zugian, a researcher with the Chinese Association of European Studies. He says the European More...
China: The US is Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy
A recent article in the Financial Times quotes the head of China’s biggest credit rating agency has said that the US is insolvent and U.S. credit ratings are a joke. “The western rating agencies are politicised More...
North Korea Promises “Physical Response” to US moves
North Korea has promised a “physical response” to American moves taken following the sinking of a South Korean warship in March. The sinking of the warship has been blamed on North Korea by both South More...
U.S. The Crossroads of History
America’s superpower status may be tested and found wanting if, urged on by Israel it opts for what it sees as a pre-emptive strike against Iran. The argument that the Persian nation will acquire a nuclear More...
Three G8 countries at “high risk” to natural disasters
Three G8 countries- France, Italy and the United States- are considered to be at “high risk” to natural disasters, claims the Natural Disasters Risk Index (NDRI). The same index, released on Thursday, lists More...
