Too much of the wrong education and too little sex means Asia won't overtake us
My prediction is that the tiger economies are reaching their peak and future growth will become much less of a challenge to the West. There's too little innovation and too few babies
- 6 December 2013
The EU is going to war with China...over solar panels
Unlike the Opium Wars, the current trade war involving China may lead to a rather nasty defeat on EU soil
- 10 June 2013
The East is rising, in Latin America
China is moving in next-door to the U.S.
- 10 May 2013
Stephen Hawking's pick-and-mix morality
Is Professor Stephen Hawking a hypocrite, or has he just been the victim of hateful anti-Israel propaganda?
- 8 May 2013
Chinese communist party done shafting its people, now looks to f**k the sky...
The new headquarters of the Chinese People's Daily leaves little to the imagination
- 3 May 2013
World's top observation decks
A list of the world's tallest viewing platforms puts Dubai's Burj in third place behind the decks on two towers in China
- 28 April 2013
No, Israel’s not the world’s big human rights problem
If you monitor United Nations proceedings, listen to political debates on college campuses, and take in much mainstream and new media, you might think that Israel is the world’s greatest human rights abuser. Of course, you'd be wrong
- 25 April 2013
America restricts Chinese tech purchases citing cyber-espionage concerns
The US government has passed a law which includes the provision to restrict government tech purchases from China
- 27 March 2013
Campaigners lob BRICS at Syrian crisis
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are being urged to act, as the "only powerful governments left"
- 25 March 2013
Is this what a mini Cold War feels like?
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psy?
- 22 March 2013
No contest: Capitalism vs socialism
We should celebrate how capitalism has made the poor substantially richer. And we must hope that it is not a lesson our political class forgets entirely
- 19 March 2013
The not-so liberal media
Watch this fascinating video of Sky News reporter Mark Stone broadcasting live as Chinese state police detain him
- 15 March 2013
China’s cyber attacks and a US response
The US has many options available to counter China's cyber threat. But does it possesses the political will to choose one?
- 22 February 2013
Ending ‘doormat politics’ In Somalia
The Somali people have resiliently rejected the permanency of failure. By and large there is a popular march toward the light at the end of the tunnel
- 1 February 2013
Obama only wants military leaders who 'will fire on U.S. citizens', says ‘leading humanitarian’
A 'respected' humanitarian has claimed that a military source has informed him of radical changes to the US military under a new Obama doctrine
- 23 January 2013
Latest on the blog
- NY Democrat pleads with Republican not to share document proposing confiscation of guns
- Sunday Times blood libel cartoon, on Holocaust Memorial Day no less
- Oregon woman raped after police refuse to send out response unit
- Palestinian jailed for Facebook like
- 'Muslim Patrol' vigilantes attempt to control London streets
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