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Asia on Top?

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APEC's recent summit produced a US-China climate deal and the first meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. But, with territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas still simmering, democracy protests in Hong Kong smoldering, and rival trade pacts dividing the US and China, is the region any closer to achieving long-term stability?

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  1. China’s New World Order

    China’s New World Order

    Nov 12, 2014 Lee Jong-Wha examines the implications of China's growing role in global governance.

  2. Russia and China: The Movie
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    Russia and China: The Movie

    Nov 11, 2014 Ian Buruma examines what two recent films tell us about the alternative to liberal capitalism.

  3. The Return of the Dollar
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    The Return of the Dollar

    Nov 10, 2014 Mohamed A. El-Erian welcomes a strengthening US dollar, but warns that its global benefits are not guaranteed.

  4. APEC at the Apex
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    APEC at the Apex

    Nov 8, 2014 Kevin Rudd says that the main action at APEC's Beijing summit will occur on the sidelines.

  5. In Praise of Global Imbalances
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    In Praise of Global Imbalances

    Nov 7, 2014 Sanjeev Sanyal argues that global economic imbalances may be necessary to revive the world economy.

  6. China’s Questionable Economic Power
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    China’s Questionable Economic Power

    Nov 6, 2014 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. argues that however the Chinese economy's size is measured, it lags far behind the US.

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    Globalization vs. Democracy

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    The West’s New Infrastructure Imperative

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    An Iran-Israel War?

    Iran’s mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, as well as Western countries like the United States. The urgent need to defuse tensions – starting by ending Israel’s war in Gaza and pursuing a lasting political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is obvious, but can it be done?

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    What a Climate-Aligned IMF Would Look Like

    Mohamed Nasheed & Rakesh Mohan explain how the managing director can fully position the institution to help the most vulnerable countries.
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    The Key to Transforming African Health

    Jayati Ghosh highlights efforts to foster scientific innovation and drug manufacturing on the continent.
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    China’s Rebalancing Imperative

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    The most successful development stories almost always involve major shifts in the sources of economic growth, which in turn allow economies to reinvent themselves out of necessity or by design. In China, the interplay of mounting external pressures, lagging household consumption, and falling productivity will increasingly shape China’s policy choices in the years ahead.

     explains why the Chinese authorities should switch to a consumption- and productivity-led growth model.
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    From Welfare State to Safe State in Latin America

    Jorge G. Castañeda & Carlos Ominami

    Designing a progressive anti-violence strategy that delivers the safety for which a huge share of Latin Americans crave is perhaps the most difficult challenge facing many of the region’s governments. But it is also the most important.

     urge the region’s progressives to start treating security as an essential component of social protection.
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    The Urgency of Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

    José Antonio Ocampo highlights the need for a comprehensive mechanism to deliver relief to low- and middle-income countries.

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