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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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June 10, 2011
International Organizations
The Dragon and the Eagle at the UN: Limits to Cooperation
U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao sit across from one another during a September 2009 meeting at the United Nations (Kevin Lamarque/ Courtesy Reuters). --Beijing, Jun…
July 17, 2012
China
China’s Population Policy—An Exchange Between Edwin Winckler and Yanzhong Huang
Dr. Yanzhong Huang is Senior Fellow for Global Health and the newest writer for Asia Unbound. His first post, “Time for China to Abandon Its Population Control Policy,” attracted significant attentio…
September 23, 2006
China
The Economist sides with Tyler Cowen
A quick synopsis of the last five years. The RMB tumbles against the euro (and most European currencies). Chinese exports to Europe surge, growing faster than Chinese exports to the US (eve…
September 21, 2006
Financial Markets
Unintentional irony watch (hedge fund edition)
Risk management standards do seem to be slipping. Davis, Sender and Zuckerman in the Wall Street Journal: “The risk models employed by hedge funds use historic data, but the natural gas markets hav…
September 21, 2018
Diplomacy and International Institutions
MIKTA in the Middle: A Little-Known Multilateral Group Turns Five
In 2013, the nations of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia formally launched “MIKTA.” The latest in an alphabet soup of informal groupings that have sprung up since the end of the C…
