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...individual voters than group constituencies such as unions and business groups have given the edge to more populist politicians. "Politicians now have to appeal to voters in a much broader, more diffuse way, and nationalism has been one way to do this," says Schaap. "Now, with China as a competitor and a potential threat, this [message] plays much better...
...Yell.com, the online version of the U.K.'s Yellow Pages, and augmented with detailed maps showing the precise location of the desired establishments. Follow a link and Google Local will even draw the route for you. Why would Yell, whose own site offers similar services, sell info to a competitor? "It's a benefit to the advertisers who pay us money," says Yell spokesman John Salmon. Paying for more prominent listings, he says, gives companies "an additional shop window." For Google, and its competitors like Yahoo!, local search advertising has become a hot new revenue stream; last week the California...
...United Group, whose Newcastle-based Goninan company makes rail cars: soaring demand in the resources sector prompted Goninan to start importing fully made rail wagons from China to meet orders. According to Leupen, although the freight cost would be huge, there's no reason why a Chinese competitor could not bring in whole passenger trains...
...make choices between its principal ally and its most promising market. But it may now face the uncomfortable challenge of having to maintain constructive relations with both Washington and Beijing. Its success in doing this will depend critically on two things: U.S. strategy towards its emerging Asian competitor, and China's own behavior...
...jury is still out on whether Washington will try to contain China - America's most likely future "peer competitor" - or give it space to emerge as a great power. Prime Minister Howard says correctly, but also hopefully, that competition between China and the U.S. need not necessarily lead to conflict. But it is easy enough to imagine circumstances in which it might: tension in the Taiwan Strait, mishandled territorial disputes between Japan and China, even access to Middle East oil supplies...