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...spark that ignited Asia's nascent cyclical rebound. When China slows down?as it likely will within months?a chill will settle over Japan, Asia's newest recovery story. Surging exports to China accounted for 32% of total Japanese-export growth in 2003. Japanese capital spending is also being driven in a significant way by capacity expansion in those industries trading with China. With annual private-consumption growth remaining anemic at about 1.5%, Japan has very little cushion against a falloff in mainland exports...
...demand for the world's raw materials and its burgeoning consumer markets means that the country has taken on outsized importance as an engine of global economic growth. Since 1995, China's GDP has doubled and its imports have tripled, making it an increasingly important trading partner for export-driven economies such as Japan, where trade with China accounted for 32% of export growth last year...
...militiamen: After years of diplomacy failed to bring Iraq into compliance with U.N. resolutions, the hard decision was made to employ military intervention. In international relations, humanitarian military intercession can be justified. The U.S. took a bold step in Iraq, even if it was also strongly driven by its national interests. It is unfair for European countries to condemn every U.S. action in the Middle East. Thugs like al-Sadr prove that people are ready to destroy their homeland for personal gain and power. You cannot deal with hoodlums by resorting only to diplomacy and negotiations. The U.S. has risked...
...It’s really demand-driven by the students. We’re really right now just dealing with food,” Cross says. “We’re not getting a lot of demand for non-food items right...
...militiamen: After years of diplomacy failed to bring Iraq into compliance with U.N. resolutions, the hard decision was made to employ military intervention. In international relations, humanitarian military intercession can be justified. The U.S. took a bold step in Iraq, even if it was also strongly driven by its national interests. It is unfair for European countries to condemn every U.S. action in the Middle East. Thugs like al-Sadr prove that people are ready to destroy their homeland for personal gain and power. You cannot deal with hoodlums by resorting only to diplomacy and negotiations. The U.S. has risked...