International companies have long believed that they must have a presence in China because they consider its 1.3 billion people to be potential consumers. But research raises question about who the country's middle class really are and the true meaning of their disposable income.
It is hard to describe the state of affairs of the Arab-Israeli conflict at this particular juncture without using adjectives such as "sad," "unfortunate" or even "tragic," which I think is the most appropriate description.
Terrorism is not just an idea or a theory. By calling a guy who publishes classified documents a terrorist, Biden dilutes the meaning of the term -- diverting our attention from the task of fighting the true phenomenon.
The Holy Spirit requires the Catholic Church to familiarize itself with honesty and respect for victims if it wishes to salvage its remains, which have been ruined by its being allowed to live by its own laws and not God's.
Not only has the Obama/Biden administration delivered on DADT, a tax deal compromise, and most likely on New START, but also on Iraq. There's more to do -- but this is not bad for the tally card.
Communication in the global economy depends on a relatively few undersea cables, which unfortunately are made more vulnerable by international politics.
We have spent over nine years force feeding democracy, trying to change a culture militarily, in Afghanistan. Now we ask young America to lose its arms, legs, and lives for five more years to force feed democracy and spread terrorism.
Rather than waiting patiently for reunification to take place through negotiations, the South Korean Lee Myoung-bak administration wants to accelerate the process, by force if necessary.
Afghanistan faces a storm of challenges in its minerals sector. A major one? The natural resistance of multinationals to invest in a place with serious security concerns.
Azim Premji, chairman of the international tech giant Wipro Ltd., just pledged US $2 billion for the improvement of Indian education to accelerate the pace of education reform. But what will that reform look like, and will it work?
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was kind and caring. Yes, we have lost America's finest diplomat. But we have also lost one of our finest men.
US militarization of the world has a number of ominous consequences for the overwhelming majority or the population the world.
Last January, Richard Holbrooke called my cell phone at midnight. He wanted to quiz me on Afghanistan. The energy of this man, thirty years older than me, at one in the morning shook me.
The difficult New START debate punctuates the deeper underlying point: the nuclear Cold War has never gone away. The fact should give comfort to no one.
The Pentagon is in something of a panic over America's longest war. How can a bunch of lightly-armed mountain tribesmen in turbans fighting only part-time battle the world's most powerful armed forces to a standstill?
Share the buildings, share the land, save the world.
The New START treaty is a major step forward by the U.S. and Russia in meeting their disarmament obligations, and will serve as a key bridge toward reaching the ultimate goal of a nuclear weapon-free world.
How can we teach our kids to realize that there's more to fulfillment than the next video game, cell phone or fast food drive-through? How do we teach our kids that what's going to fill them up is giving not getting?
Dictator Meles Zenawi recently responded to questions about his so-called Growth and Transformation Plan by igniting into spontaneous self-combustion. It was vintage Zenawi.