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If last year's Olympics were China's flashy coming-out party, the massive military parade commemorating 60 years of communist rule on Oct. 1 marks a more serious side to the rise of the People's Republic. Some 5,000 military personnel and 108 missile trucks - including several carrying...
But that has to be balanced with the danger of runaway costs, which seem almost guaranteed when it comes to the Olympics. Brad Humphreys, professor of the Economics of Gaming at the University of Alberta, keeps count on Olympic budgets. His tally is a tale of excess: Athens budgeted $1.6...
Wilder said that he was impressed by Bush’s “straight talk” with Chinese leaders and noted that since the Beijing Olympics last year, there has been a “large degree of transition and maturity that came into the relationship?...
He spoke critically of the new U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, a forum to discuss strategic and economic issues of importance for both nations in which each country sends high-level representatives and delegations to meet annually in either Beijing or Washington D.C.
So far, it's unclear how deeply a new batch of sanctions against Iran would cut, particularly since the U.S. needs Moscow and Beijing as signatories if it wants the initiative to pack a punch. Russia and Iran have shared economic interests, and according to some estimates, China has some...