Word: china
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...Nandan Nilekani, who is about to leave the chairmanship of Indian tech company Infosys for a government post, speaks of "tactical coupling" and "strategic decoupling." That is, nobody could escape the short-term effects of a global crisis, but the basic BIC growth story still holds. (See pictures of China doing business in Africa...
...BICs can keep growing even as the U.S. and Europe flounder, it would spell an end to America's long reign as the driving force in the global economy. Goldman's O'Neill has said it's "conceivable" that China's economy will be bigger than that of the U.S. in less than 20 years and that the BRIC countries as a group will carry as much economic weight as the G-7 group of Western powers plus Japan. This sounds like bad news for the U.S. - and it will certainly bring all sorts of new complications to the global...
...Timing aside, it's questionable whether a 24-hour Olympic-themed network is viable at all. The state of the economy presents any new, expensive venture with challenges. And though the ratings for the Beijing Games were strong - driven by interest in China and in the epic quest of swimmer Michael Phelps - it doesn't follow that there's even a speck of demand for Olympic programming in non-Olympic years. Given the already cluttered and competitive sports-television landscape, who wants to watch Taekwondo or table tennis on a Saturday afternoon in October? Or November? Or April? "The chances...
...been dotted and the t's crossed. In sometimes exhaustive, often repetitive detail, Obama has now traveled the world, from Riyadh to Cairo and from London to Moscow - he plans to travel to China and other parts of Asia in the fall - offering up his international vision, a hodgepodge of classic realpolitik, diplomatic determination, community-organizer idealism and charismatic leadership. He has presented what he hopes will become a new public identity for the U.S., less global leader than global facilitator, less savior than responsible partner. (Read "The Five Faces of Barack Obama...
...will not be known for some time. What's more, it can be difficult to measure results in international affairs - to say conclusively, for instance, that Russia's cooperation on nuclear-weapon reductions could not have happened under the Administration of President John McCain or that the willingness of China to increase pressure on North Korea is anything more than a response to the rogue nation's increasing belligerence. (See pictures of Obama's meeting with the Pope...