Tag: China

Environment

The great race: Excessive population, deep deserts

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Reprint from September 30, 2021First of three parts It borrows its name from the massive stone structure built by the Qin Dynasty. But the purpose of the Green Great Wall in China is not to hold back the barbarians, it’s to stop the ever-encroaching deserts. The following article was submitted...

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International

Lose-lose proposition in U.S.-China war

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China, Part 2: China has been shipping the ingredients needed to manufacture fentanyl to Mexico, where the drug is then manufactured and distributed. There is a fentanyl epidemic in the United States. One could imagine that, by getting Americans hooked on this drug, the U.S. would not have the time...

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Over many years, China has evolved and made changes

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Ni Hao. That is Mandarin Chinese for hello. Mandarin is the official language of the People’s Republic of China. If the present trend in China’s behavior continues, it may well replace English as the lingua franca of Planet Earth. Imperial China always referred to itself as the “Middle Kingdom,” around...

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Feature International Political

Varied: Women in politics, China’s role, GOP 20’s plight

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Thinking-out-loud department: • Donna Crane’s recent column about women in government in America got me to thinking deep thoughts. Here’s one thought to explain why there are such low numbers of women in government. Sociologically, the United States is stuck in the 19th Century. Men ruled the roost, and women...

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Government International Opinion

Assessment: China leans forward, U.S. leans back

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By Jim Nowlan For millennia, war was how groups did economic development. Today, economic and technical dominance are how groups do war, and right now we’re losing something akin to a modern war with China. When I first arrived in Shanghai 15 years ago, to serve as a “foreign expert”...

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