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- End the China Bashing - RealClearWorld - February 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Several Chinese readers have contacted me to express astonishment at the chorus of voices blaming China for the U.S. recession. They wonder: Is this the...
- China Bashing - February 3, 2009
- China-bashers maintain that Beijing cheapened its exports through currency manipulation, encouraging Americans to devour them; the Chinese then invested part of...
- What Obama Can(not) Do for Latin America - January 27, 2009
- A decade ago, the IMF was a major player in Latin America, having lent an accumulated $50 billion. Since Brazil and Argentina paid off their debts, the IMF became...
- January 20, 2009 - January 20, 2009
- Now, faced with the greatest economic crisis in generations, Obama will need to make a choice between his intellectual formation, which points to interventionist...
- Welcome to Washington - January 13, 2009
- This is the one silver lining in the gathering storm of increased government power caused by the current recession. In the wake of the collapse of collateralized...
- The Decline of Israel's Leadership - January 6, 2009
- That logic is self-defeating. Only a permanent occupation of Gaza could ensure the absence of rockets in southern Israel. But Israel's occupation of Gaza proved to...
- Mugabe's Cholera - December 23, 2008
- The dearth of food is another byproduct of Mugabe's delirium. It can be traced back to the new wave of land reform that started in 2000, when under the pretext of...
- What the U.S. Economic Crisis Means for Latin America - December 16, 2008
- What an illusion. A lot of what has helped Latin America's economies in recent years -- access to capital markets, foreign investments, remittances from emigrants,...
- Slumdog Millionaire & the Mumbai Attacks - December 9, 2008
- As is usually the case with great narrative, what makes the story important is not what it tells us but how it is told. The "Slumdog Millionaire" plot is a...
- India -- The Other Side of Glory - December 2, 2008
- Unlike other Asian nations, India's economic coming of age was based on high-tech industry and therefore an increasing ability to produce more with less. In 2006,...
- Chavez Stumbles - The New Republic - November 25, 2008
- Chavez's Stumble - November 25, 2008
- The environment in which these victories were obtained could not have been worse for the opposition. Five of its best candidates, including Caracas politician Leopoldo...
- Congo, Death with No Angels - November 18, 2008
- The rebel leader, a Congolese veteran of the Tutsi-controlled Rwandan Patriotic Front that overthrew Rwanda's Hutu government after decades of domination, claims...
- Hispanics at the Polls - November 11, 2008
- But the GOP this year did not seem interested. Even in the wake of the immigration debate, Latinos hardly organized in any meaningful way to fight back -- except...
- Cristina's Plunder - October 28, 2008
- Unlike what happened in other Latin American countries that privatized their social security regimes in the 1990s, Argentines who opted for private, individual...
- The Conservative Rebellion - October 21, 2008
- More poignantly, they all decry what they perceive as a betrayal of conservative principles. Buckley put it succinctly when he wrote that George Bush's government has...
- Rediscovering Latin America - October 14, 2008
- Which is why so many nations keep repeating the mistakes of the past -- and why in those countries that seem to be on the right track, the forces pushing in the...
- Whose Fault Was It? - October 7, 2008
- As many authoritative economists are desperately trying to explain amid all the confusion, the culprit was a system geared toward loaning money to people who were...
- Over-Regulation is Not the Answer - The New Republic - October 7, 2008
- Where is the Big Idea? - September 30, 2008
- Every important issue in the current U.S. election lends itself to a profound debate between government intervention and individual responsibility -- whether it be...
- Wall Street Socialism - September 23, 2008
- From now on, any petty tyrant anywhere in the world who takes over an industry will shut his critics up by saying that an American administration led by the party of...
- Lula's Oil Dream - September 16, 2008
- When Petrobras complained and experts explained that the government does not have the capital or the know-how required for this enterprise -- a huge technological...
- 'The Jewel of Medina' - September 9, 2008
- Certainly this was not a case of censorship: no one has a "right" to be published by anyone else. But insofar as the business decision of the publisher was dictated by...
- The Peasants' Oil - September 2, 2008
- Under pressure from nongovernmental organizations and leaders of indigenous movements, the Peruvian Congress repealed the decrees, but the government is trying to...
- The Religious-Secular Divide - August 19, 2008
- What was fascinating about the event was not the questions or the answers -- or even, as many commentators are pointing out, the stylistic differences between a Socratic...
- Russian Nationalism on the March - August 12, 2008
- This has little to do with protecting South Ossetians, who a few years ago were vying for independence from both Georgia and Russia. And it has little to do with...
- Bosnia Revisited - August 5, 2008
- Although nationalism is an extended form of tribalism, its worst exponents are often a country's more cultivated people. That Karadzic was an average psychiatrist and a...
- The Ladies in White - July 29, 2008
- During our chat, they criticized the Castro brothers by name. They explained that the government has sent their relatives to remote prisons and described the...
- Chavez's Mission Not Accomplished - July 15, 2008
- The mission project started in 2003, five years into Chavez's government, with a political objective in mind -- for Chavez to win a recall referendum. In a speech given...
- Europe's Fear - July 8, 2008
- Almost any society faced with a sudden influx of outsiders would feel understandably threatened. But the evidence flies in the face of all three of these fears. La...
- Obama and Latin America - July 1, 2008
- A measure of neglect is not a bad thing with regard to a foreign policy toward neighbors who in some cases harbor old resentments and think development will result from...
- Ireland's "No" - RealClearPolitics - June 17, 2008