Totalitarianisms Revisited
This is an article I wrote some time ago which did not get picked up; because I am still working on the idea, I wanted to get it out into the public in order to get feedback from those who might have something to contribute to my thought process. At the moment, China holds the potential to become a beacon of insecurities for the West. Politicians aware of the underlying economic disquiet which colors their electorate, even now in times of relative stability, are likely to intensify the focus on China’s role in job loss and lowered standards of living once the issue with illegal immigration is no longer politically expedient. Similarly, the powerful community of ...Andrew Sullivan & Sam Harris Conclude
We are left with the impression that the desire to be accepted as a homosexual by society colors a lot of Sullivan’s religious sympathies. Sullivan’s flowing literary style has always had a pensive, almost angst filled, character which the recent Bush Administration and its misadventures in Iraq have only intensified. On one hand, Sullivan would have us believe that religious moderation can be trusted to guard against its fundamentalist tendencies, but his own religious belief offered no such advance warning with President Bush and his current dance with religious nationalism. Sullivan wants Harris to believe that moderate religious belief can distinguish a symmetric worldview which allows ideas to be discarded when found to be antiquated, but retains ...When China’s Economic & Political Agendas Collide, Will You Be Ready?
Forcing broader WTO compliance on China is a complicated proposition in large part because the US’ own motives relative to China are mixed. The US government is attempting to balance the interests of two American business communities who have disparate agendas. On one hand are the well connected multi-national companies who call the US home and who rely on the low price of Chinese imports to sustain their growth and profitability. These organizations are leery of the US government being too heavy-handed in an effort to enforce WTO compliance for fear China may resist and engage in their own form of protectionism which would subsequently damage the US companies’ ability to access China as a source for ...March 2007 USCC Meeting
According to testimony at last week’s USCC meeting, China’s current sophistication in its perception management parallels that of the latter stages of the Cold War, in particular the Soviet downing of KAL007. After this tragedy, the Soviets were surprisingly successful at getting certain portions of the international media to take its claims seriously that the flight was an illegal intelligence gathering mission designed to “tickle” border radar stations. Similarly, incidents which occur within China’s sovereign territory give it, coupled to its state-run media outlet, a unique ability to craft what information is disseminated, and thereby much of what constitutes world opinion on the event itself. Next Entries »About MysteriousFaith
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