Asian Arguments
Will China's cities be paved with gold or pockmarked with slums?
In 2012 China will hit a development milestone: For the first time, half of the country's 1.3 billion citizens will live in urban areas. An additional 350 million future city dwellers are still completing the journey...
If China suddenly democratised, would it cease being labelled as a threat? This provocative book argues that fears of China often say as much about those who hold them as they do about the rising power itself. It focuses not on the usual trope of economic and military might, but on China's...
Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected. The Chinese government believes that this is a step towards `democracy...
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- The Guardian - Now it is Ireland's turn to reject the austerity fantasy: France and Greece have shown it is possible to resist this ideology. This month the Irish too may vote to stop 'behaving'.
- Th Guardian: Charles Taylor asks not to be jailed in UK
- Hamid Dabashi: Elia Suleiman's cinema as the premonition of the Arab revolutions - Exploring the emotive universe from which the Arab Spring finally blossomed.
- Sustainable Business Forum: The Third Industrial Revolution
- Pacific Free Press - Rejecting Odious Debt: Africa






