China
If Only American Leaders Could Emulate Chinese Communists...
[Guest post by Isaac Chotiner] From J.D. Foster at National Review: Oh, what a little freedom can do. Government figures released over the weekend confirm that China now has the second-largest economy in the world...[G]iven the direction the U.S. is heading, there’s a more immediate, more important issue: what China learned — and the U.S. apparently forgot — about the power of freedom. READ MORE >>
What We Could Learn From India and Korea
Now that Tom Friedman has endorsed the construction of an Islamic center at Ground Zero no one can be against it. But since he has not even made a real argument for it, aside from recounting his experience at a Broadway jamboree in the White House where the only Muslim name was the president’s middle one, which is nothing more than a non sequitur, the column stands alone with neither evidence nor logic. READ MORE >>
Old School: Land Grant Universities in the Global Economy
In places like Michigan, where the loss of auto and other manufacturing jobs has been so numerous and painful, China is viewed as a job-stealing, economy-weakening threat. But in Lansing, Michigan State University is the fulcrum of new business, research, and learning partnerships that are bringing Chinese spending, investors, and, thus, new jobs to mid-Michigan--and a new round of increased diversity and immigrant-led economic renewal to the loc READ MORE >>
China's Bus of the Future
Annie Lee at China Hush relays the future of public transportation in China: the "straddling bus," which glides over other cars on the road. (Okay, it's technically called the "3D fast bus," but straddling bus is more apt.) READ MORE >>
Liberal Apathy, the National Security Story
Heather Hurlburt is executive director of the National Security Network. She wrote this in response to last week's item about liberal apathy. READ MORE >>
Exports: Next for the West?
The release of our new “Export Nation” report this week makes a strong argument that if the nation is going to begin “rebalancing” its off-kilter economy then U.S. metropolitan areas’ international exports need to be a bigger part of the picture. Such a claim is at once self-evident and novel, given the facts of economic life and the obtuseness of typical Washington debates. But be that as it may, the export agenda has important regional relevance. READ MORE >>
Doubling Exports Will Require More than Scrap and Waste
The administration has put forth a goal of doubling U.S. in the next five years. It’s a tall order, especially considering the state of some potentially major export markets. READ MORE >>
China's Push to Master the Seas
The Gospel According to Luce
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century By Alan Brinkley (Knopf, 531 pp., $35) I. READ MORE >>
