Monthly Archives: June 2007

The recent sale of unsafe and low quality goods produced in China has raised an uproar in the United States and other countries that import products from the Asian giant. In these countries, Chinese produced goods are often thought of as cheap, low quality, and even unsafe knockoffs of things that are more expensive toContinue reading “China’s Tainted Goods”

The people of Kunming, China, are facing the question of how exactly to understand and deal with the concept of “progress” in a very unsubtle way. Perhaps in our modern times, the word itself, “progress,” needs to be completely rethought. With consequences that seem to be so incredibly ambiguous, perhaps the process indicative in theContinue reading “The Idea of Development”

Indonesia has been getting a lot of press lately, due to recent domestic as well as international activities. In the country, Indonesia has made several arrests, and seems to be on a campaign to clamp down on the Islamic radical groups that have been responsible for violence and acts of terror, such as the bombingsContinue reading “In land of Mosques, defining the role of a unique Islam”

The direction that China takes as it continues to develop its policy, both domestic and foreign, should be the concern of everyone in the world. With the largest population and a rapidly developing economy, the impact the rapidly changing country will have on the world in the next few years is going to be exponentiallyContinue reading “Lip Service Vs. Real Intentions”

Both boys and girls, school children from the very young all the way to university students crowd the internet cafes of China. It’s a statistic that may be interpreted by some as the rise of the empowered and informed masses, the armament of a population to resist the singularly dominating force that is the ChineseContinue reading “Game Epidemic”