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Indian democracy is responsible for the thousands of hectares around Mumbai’s airport being occupied by slum dwellers. In China this would have been converted into a hub of economic activity in which the current dwellers could get jobs.
More »The Greens recognise growth as a means to improve the quality of life in a sustainable way, not an end in and of itself. At least one sensible party in Australia. No wonder they gained votes.
More »Pakistani politicians are not only incompetent managers but often exceedingly corrupt and self-serving. The problem is that even if they were a brilliant and competent lot they would still fall flat on their faces thanks to the bureaucracy.
More »Pakistan has 150 cubic meters per capita of water-storage capacity in dams. China has 2500. Look at how Three Gorges mitigated the impact of floods in the lower Yangzi. And look at what happened in Pakistan.
More »By purchasing Chinese goods we improve the labour market there, giving trade unions more room to bargain for health and safety standards, environmental safeguards, pay, or whatever else they actually care about.
More »Pushtunisation will never succeed in Afghanistan—and yet that is what all of the country's Pushtun client-governments have tried since the 1930s...And Karzai and his close aides are dreaming of it again
More »In the international arena everything has its own price. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Every penny that is invested in Sri Lanka, China expects more in terms of return or benefit in kind.
More »For native Papuans, there's no hope that they'll ever gain independence. Indonesia will be changing BRIC to BRIIC soon...Jakarta will have all the money they need to transform West Papua however they see fit.
More »Democracy is not some kind of export commodity that can simply be airmailed into a country and expected to function properly. It is a complex societal system with numerous prerequisites, few of which seem to exist in Central Asia.
More »The wisdom of Henry Ford will benefit China greatly. Only when the workers have enough money to buy their own stuff (cars, computers, iPhones) can the vast potential of the Chinese consumer market be realized.
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