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Category Archives: Global economy
The Clark-Fingleton discussion
Below, set out in chronological order, is a series of three exchanges between Professor Gregory Clark and me concerning, among other things, the problems for foreign correspondents in reporting the truth from Japan. Clark, a Japan-based educator and columnist for … Continue reading
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Tagged catherine makino, chatham house, courtis, feldman, gillian tett, gregory clark, hallett abend, jesper koll, kinmont, koki hirota, malcolm kennedy, peter o'connor, Sino-Japanese relations, taid o'conroy, takeo tamiya, tasker, vidkun quisling
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Dangerous Business: A devastating account of the downside of globalism
Pat Choate has written the ultimate riposte to the radical globalists who dominate policy-making in Washington. [This review first appeared in the September 15, 2008 issue of Manufacturing & Technology News.] Americans of a certain age know that something is … Continue reading
Japan then, America now: A misleading comparison
America’s economic crisis today is not like Japan’s in the 1990s. It is far worse. (This article was first published in the Number 1 Shimbun, the magazine of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan.) American commentators have been rushing to … Continue reading
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Tagged "bad news" public relations, 787, basket case, can japan compete?, carbon fiber, crash, euromoney, fccj, karen elliott house, mitsubishi, nidec, ohga, okuda, osaka, ottoman, paul krugman, skyscrapers, suzy menkes, titanium, toyota, toyota lexus, wings
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The decline of the American empire: An expert witness’s account
Senator Ernest F. Hollings’s recently published autobiography, Making Government Work, is wise, well-written, and consistently absorbing. Rarely has Senator Fritz Hollings used his renowned wit to more devastating effect than when he was interviewed in 1990 on the ABC program, … Continue reading
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Tagged abc, bob kennedy, buckley v. valeo, ernest f. hollings, gramm, hairpiece, rudman, sam donaldson
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Nanking: A sequel to a sequel to a sequel
News travels slowly where corrections to the New York Times‘s international edition are concerned. See below a correction that appeared in the print edition of the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times‘s international edition, on March 17, 2008. The correction also appeared … Continue reading
Posted in Global economy, Press, Sino-Japanese relations, Trade
Tagged Sino-Japanese relations
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Jaws: A note for books editors and reviewers
Broken links at Amazon are damaging my new book’s prospects. [EF note as of 2010: The relevant links were subsequently established but only after the launch period of my new book had passed.] The prescience of my previous book In Praise … Continue reading
Piranhas in the Amazon system
Authors have always taken on vested interests. Now vested interests have found a new way to strike back. The unsuspecting American public assumes that the rise of online bookstores like Amazon.com has powerfully served the cause of truth. Not necessarily.
America’s creativity conceit
One of the biggest misconceptions in the American trade debate is the idea that America can count on superior creativity to stay ahead of the crowd. [Article as published in the American Conservative on November 21, 2007.] TOKYO. Almost everything the … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, China, Global economy, History, Japan, Manufacturing, Service economy
Tagged american creativity, assembled in china, big science, china sphere, collider, daniel griswold, designed by apple in california, edward miller, ipod, ivan p. hall, john snow, magnetic compass, mitsubishi zero, pat choate, u.s.-china economic and security review commission
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A quiet anniversary: The Nanking Massacre remembered — and forgotten
All conventional wisdom to the contrary, Japan and China cooperate closely in key policies, most notably trade. In return for economic favors from Tokyo, Beijing has never pursued claims for reparations over Japan’s aggression of the 1930s and early 1940s. … Continue reading
Posted in China, Global economy, Japan, Sino-Japanese relations, Trade
Tagged imf, massacre, nanjing, nanking, Sino-Japanese relations, tanaka, world bank, wto
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Essay: East Asian Alliance
Superficial and largely theatrical bickering notwithstanding, Tokyo and Beijing are joined in a tacit East Asian alliance. (This article was first published in the London-based magazine Prospect in May 2004.) China is now widely seen as the coming superpower. But … Continue reading
Posted in China, Global economy, Japan, Press, Sino-Japanese relations, Trade
Tagged aid, beijing, greg austin, james mann, kaifu, karaoke, nixon, plasma screens, Sino-Japanese relations, stuart harris, tourist
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