Fang Xinwu / Color China Photos-ZUMA Press Why China Won't Rule the World -- Minxin Pei, Newsweek
Conventional wisdom can be devilishly hard to dispute. For example, most pundits agree that the Great Recession helped China more than any other state. At first glance, this claim seems obviously true. Unlike the United States and the other major Western powers, which saw their economies plummet and their financial institutions come close to ruin, the Chinese economy has kept on growing. Chinese financial institutions, considered technically insolvent only a few years ago, now boast balance sheets and market capitalizations that Western banks can only dream of. With its economy expected to grow at 9 percent in 2010, China will soon surpass Japan as the world's second-largest economy (measured in U.S. dollars). Pundits like Martin Jacques, a veteran British journalist, are predicting that China will soon rule the world—figuratively, if not literally.
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Where's the Chinese Toyota? -- Alexandra Harney, Foreign Policy
A hint of hedging on Afghanistan -- Gwynne Dyer, Japan Times
The fog of withdrawal: Does anyone really understand what will happen in July 2011? -- Eric T. Olson, New York Daily News
What They're Saying In the Taliban War Room About Obama's Plan -- Walid Phares, FOX News
Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan has many flaws -- Hasina Rasult, Kansas City
Afghanistan's way forward must include the Taliban -- Azeem Ibrahim, L.A. Times
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Where's the Chinese Toyota? -- Alexandra Harney, Foreign Policy
A hint of hedging on Afghanistan -- Gwynne Dyer, Japan Times
The fog of withdrawal: Does anyone really understand what will happen in July 2011? -- Eric T. Olson, New York Daily News
What They're Saying In the Taliban War Room About Obama's Plan -- Walid Phares, FOX News
Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan has many flaws -- Hasina Rasult, Kansas City
Afghanistan's way forward must include the Taliban -- Azeem Ibrahim, L.A. Times
The fog of withdrawal: Does anyone really understand what will happen in July 2011? -- Eric T. Olson, New York Daily News
What They're Saying In the Taliban War Room About Obama's Plan -- Walid Phares, FOX News
Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan has many flaws -- Hasina Rasult, Kansas City
Afghanistan's way forward must include the Taliban -- Azeem Ibrahim, L.A. Times
Bloody car-bomb attacks in Baghdad bode ill for next year's election -- The Economist
No room for false moves in Pakistan -- Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
A Military Coup in Pakistan Next? -- Tarek Fatah, Globe and Mail
Philippine massacre facilitated by confluence of factors -- W. Scott Thompson, LA Times
How to stop Africa's democratic backsliding -- Christian Hennemeyer, Global Post
Swiss Resistance to Islamization -- Daniel Pipes, Jerusalem Post
Greek Debt Poses a Danger to Common Currency -- Wolfgang Reuter, Spiegel Online
What They're Saying In the Taliban War Room About Obama's Plan -- Walid Phares, FOX News
Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan has many flaws -- Hasina Rasult, Kansas City
Afghanistan's way forward must include the Taliban -- Azeem Ibrahim, L.A. Times
Bloody car-bomb attacks in Baghdad bode ill for next year's election -- The Economist
No room for false moves in Pakistan -- Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
A Military Coup in Pakistan Next? -- Tarek Fatah, Globe and Mail
Philippine massacre facilitated by confluence of factors -- W. Scott Thompson, LA Times
How to stop Africa's democratic backsliding -- Christian Hennemeyer, Global Post
Swiss Resistance to Islamization -- Daniel Pipes, Jerusalem Post
Greek Debt Poses a Danger to Common Currency -- Wolfgang Reuter, Spiegel Online