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Author Archives: Eamonn Fingleton
A message for the Times: Justice delayed is justice denied
The New York Times prides itself on its uniquely high standards of accuracy and fairness. So why did its overseas edition take so long to correct the record when I was misrepresented a year ago? For nearly a year I … Continue reading
What the persecution of the Falun Gong tells us about New China
Even if the globalist-minded American press would prefer not to notice, the Beijing authorities continue to persecute the Falun Gong. Yet the movement’s only known “offense” is that it is not controlled by the Communist Party. Sometimes it takes a … Continue reading
Iris Chang: Elegy for a brave writer
Iris Chang was a Chinese-American author and historian who took her own life in 2004. As Paula Kamen recounts in a new biography, Chang had challenged the establishments of two of the world’s most powerful nations. [This review was first … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, China, History, Press, Sino-Japanese relations
Tagged advertising pressure, bataan, charles burress, clustering, counterpunch, ian buruma, iris chang, nanking, newsweek, paula kamen, Sino-Japanese relations, the wages of guilt, urbana-champaign, war compensation
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Finance: A cuckoo in the economy’s nest
Much of my September 1999 book In Praise of Hard Industries was quickly vindicated when America’s New Economy boom collapsed in 2000. But until recently my baleful analysis of the growth in financial services — “the economics of the cancer … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Service economy
Tagged black monday, david dreman, edward wyatt, f.i.a.s.c.o., financialism, front-running, george soros, invisible foot, james glassman, john bogle, john tagliabue, kemper, michael lewis, mit commission on industrial productivity, partnoy, paul gigot, steven kaye, stop-loss, vanguard, wall street
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Boeing, Boeing,….Gone: An article revisited
In a cover story in the American Conservative in January 2005, I documented the remarkable degree to which East Asian governments have been persuading the Boeing corporation to transfer proprietary American aerospace technology. Soon afterwards Unsustainable.org crashed and it was … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Manufacturing, Trade
Tagged 787, Airbus, alan macpherson, b-47, boeing, dassault, david pritchard, harry stonecipher, hollowing out, louis uchitelle, mcdonnell douglas, open kimono, outsourcing, pat choate, r&d management, seattle, sphere of influence, thornton wilson
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Pursuing prosperity: Address to the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
This is the abstract of a keynote address delivered I made at a conference organized by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev on November 13, 2008. One of my most vivid childhood memories was watching Sputnik streak across the … Continue reading
A heated banker and a hurt professor
Now that the American economy has been revealed to everyone (not just to readers of my books) as a house of cards, I thought it might be safe to suggest that things in 1990s Japan weren’t all that bad. Two … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Manufacturing, Press, Trade
Tagged alexander kinmont, bill emmott, dan thomas, danforth thomas, dead fukuzawa society, debate, gillian tett, gregory clark, jesper koll, kenneth courtis, michael porter, minoru makihara, peter hartcher, peter tasker, richard katz, robert feldman, tiananmen massacre
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