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Marx saw that the economic mechanisms of his time created appalling living conditions for workers. He was right that this couldn't go on forever. The real-world solution was not as clear-cut and revolutionary as his theory predicted. It was and is a long process of adjustment, confrontation and integration. The West has solved some of the problems but outsourced others. We could happily forget about this as long as it was happening to weak, marginalized countries, but now China plays an active part in the world economy. We can't command China to give us cheap...
...while it's clear that there will be some big winners from the tidal wave of cash being spent by China's carriers - China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom - it remains to be seen which of the mobile-service providers and equipment manufacturers will manage to grab the largest slice of the pie. Another issue that remains very much in the balance is the fate of Beijing's attempt to bolster the country's technological chops by force-feeding the industry a homegrown version of 3G. More broadly, critics say that the long delay in granting 3G licenses - widely...
...fate of the Chinese flavor of 3G technology - named TD-SCDMA while the two existing international standards are known as WCDMA and CDMA200 EV-DO - is less clear. The government has boosted its chances of success by awarding the license for use of the technology to the country's dominant service provider, China Mobile, which boasts a whopping 75% of the subscriber market. China Mobile has tried to get a jump on 3G by handing out free handsets to some 800,000 subscribers beginning last April as part of a trial rollout of the homegrown platform. But the service...
Scholarship programs or financial aid incentives that encourage public service, while important, fail to send as clear and salient a message: that public service is a priority not only for the select few who are interested in or even aware of these programs, but also for every American citizen...
Three decades after Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's triumphant return to Iran to claim power on the ruins of the Shah's regime, Iran's Islamic revolution can still draw a crowd. That much was clear Tuesday as several hundred thousand people converged on Tehran's Freedom Square to celebrate its 30th anniversary at the very spot where Khomeini was first welcomed home from his exile in France. (See pictures of Khomeini's triumphant return to Iran...