Now that "developing" nations like China and India are finally being asked to pay the "rich man's tax"...um, I mean, help control "global warming" they are whining something fierce!
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - India and China objected on Saturday to a draft deal at U.N. talks in Bali to launch negotiations on a global pact by 2009 to fight ( Read more... )

Some people have been tossing around the idea of organizing a boycott of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing ( Read more... )

Bubbles burst in China, too.

I hope no one on my flist is heavily invested in China.
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China is picking up every aspect of capitalism, it seems:
BEIJING (AP) - More than half of China's publicly traded companies tried to inflate their 2005 profits, claiming nearly $5 billion in phony income, but were stopped by auditors, the official state news agency said Friday ( Read more... )

Politicians and diplomats are in high gear, claiming that something is being done about North Korea:
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Saturday that the U.N. Security Council had sent a "swift and tough" message to North Korea that its claimed detonation of a nuclear bomb was unacceptable to the world.
The only one trembling at the notion of yet ( Read more... )

North Korea reportedly detonated a nuclear device, proving once and for all that they do, indeed posses nuclear weapons.

This is a direct result of a decade of coddling the North Korean dictatorship by both the international community and the United States.

Ever since the Clinton administration made a foolish decision to reward North Korea for ( Read more... )

China is a growing problem. If they get away with military posturing like this it will only lead to larger confrontations down the road.
TOKYO, Oct. 21 -- China has completed at least one new drilling platform in the East China Sea and may already be tapping into hotly contested natural gas and oil fields, escalating a dispute with Japan over the ( Read more... )

Microsoft aids and abets censorship in China.
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Chinese bloggers, even on foreign-sponsored sites, better chose their words carefully - the censors are watching ( Read more... )

in China!

For all the whining done by the likes of the ACLU and Amnesia International, you'd think we lived in a police state.

No, that is when you live in a place like China:
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Authorities have ordered all China-based Web sites and blogs to register or be closed down, in the latest effort by the communist government to ( Read more... )

Japan was the big, scary nation that was going to eat our economic lunch in the 1980s and early 1990s ( Read more... )