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I have heard in the news that Mexican drug violence is starting to spill over into Houston. Is this true?
Latin America is really taking a sharp left turn. The US is reaping the results of its past miscues and mistakes in the region.
I have been speaking to many young Chinese intellectuals on this issue. The old adulation and admiration for the West of the '89 Tian An Men crowd...
There is no social pressure on them to do so. For now. Chinese people, aside from a few lonely dissidents and intellectuals, aren't interested in...
GDP doesn't tell the whole story. China's GDP is still growing at more than 6%, figures the rest of the world would die for. However, China's...
What you say is the common thinking in the West, that the Chinese people just cann't wait to rebel against their "oppressors", as soon as the...
Actually it may prevent WWIII. :D I honestly don't see the current situation as being that bad. It ties the major powers of the world tightly...
You are making the assumption that China won't be able to move up the technology ladder and into higher-valued goods, just as the Japanese and the...
Yes, this is the reality. What the US is to the whole world is pretty much what Wall Street is to the US, everyone hates it for having caused the...
Hear, hear. But I would replace "religion" with "organized religion". When religion is an individual's personal search for the Higher Truth,...
Reminds me of a few fine upstanding gents in my old high school who used to love to urinate on each other and for some reason found it...
Europe is where the second wave of this financial "Tsunami" is going to come from and it's going to be even bigger than the first, and it's gonna...
Viets? LOL, that explains a lot.
LOL, couldn't resist this one. "Winning" as in "please buy our T-bonds to save our bankrupt behind"? This back-and-forth game between China and US...
OK, I am out on this one, because I think this is all a lot of hot air. You lawyerly gents can continue to rack your brains over this one. A...
No, CHINA brought up the EEZ and made it the basis for their actions in their official statement, not Wnes. Of course, it's not surprising you are...
As I reported in a previous post, these sorts of things happen all the time, and this is not the most aggressive the Chinese have acted. In 2002,...
LOL @ Sammy run and hide all the way back into the 10th century because he doesn't know enough to argue the case at hand. Not much of a lawyer are...
Need I remind you that it's the Americans who made this a public issue? I think someone in the Pentagon thinks Hillary was cozying up to the...
LOL, I am sure Clutch doesn't mind the number of hits us "cucarachas" bring to his site. You don't like it? Tough! Same deal on Tibet. China is...