Archive for April, 2008
« Previous EntriesCommit long term to iron ore, China tells India
Submitted by 2point6billion.com Blog
As China’s voracious demand for iron ore rises, the country demands a more stable, long term pricing policy from India. India which currently meets 16 percent of China’s iron ore demands sells iron ore on a spot basis, allowing the price to fluctuate as demand grows. India is China’s third largest supplier, [...]
Beware: That Russian Air Superiority Fighter You Just Bought Might Be An Improved Chinese Knockoff
Submitted by Experience Not Logic Blog
Pravda, a “Russian semi-propaganda newspaper,” recently reported that Russia [is] infuriated with Chinese export copies of Su-27 jet fighters (h/t commenter at Marginal Revolution). The Sukhoi Su-27 fighter, and its numerous variants, is Russia’s most advanced jet fighter in service with the Su-27SM being the most advanced. Back in 1991, [...]
Asia’s Rainforests face depletion from over logging
Submitted by 2point6billion.com Blog
Growth of Asia’s factories are turning forests into grasslands and both booming China and India are to blame for this mass erosion of green cover. Forest experts have warned the soaring demand for timber, food, energy and commodities are all great contributors to the depletion of rainforests in Asia.
More recent reports show [...]
The world is not flat any more.
Submitted by 2point6billion.com Blog
Its been a long march since Thomas Friedman declared the world to be flat. Now, it seems as economies grow larger and countries struggle to gain control of depleating natural resources national barriers are rising.
A story by the wall street journal says that the global economy appears to be entering an epoch in [...]
Scotch Whiskey sales (2006)($bn)
Submitted by 2point6billion.com Blog
Numbers: (1.1,0.048)
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Intellectual Property Law in Asia Symposium
Submitted by Experience Not Logic Blog
Recently, I was appointed Senior Associate Editor of the San Diego International Law Journal. The outgoing editorial board tasked me with organizing a symposium issue for next year. A symposium issue of a law journal is an issue devoted to a single topic. The publication is often preceded by 3-6 [...]
Posts of the Week: 4/21 - 4/27
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China’s Two Markets at Managing the Dragon
Jack Perkowski explains the two market system in China where foreigners compete with locals, and locals and compete with locals. He concludes that the strongest competitors to foreign companies are arising out of the crucible of the intense competition in the local markets.
CNN sued [...]
Its all about gas between India, Iran, Pakistan and China
Submitted by 2point6billion.com Blog
The quest for natural gas has brought age old enemies India and Pakistan to seek an agreement, allowing a pipeline from Iran to bring energy to Pakistan and India.”I am very optimistic about the IPI (Iran, Pakistan, India) pipeline as it would go a along way in meeting India’s energy requirements in the [...]
The National Geographic China Special Issue
Submitted by Experience Not Logic Blog
The other week I posted that I’d comment on one of the articles from National Geographic’s Special Issue on China, Inside the Dragon. There isn’t much to comment on. The articles are about drawing personal connections between the reader and China’s citizens. This should do more to quiet American fears [...]
Why Fix What Ain’t Broke? The Shanghai Market
Submitted by Experience Not Logic Blog
A couple of Financial Times articles today got me thinking about the Shanghai Composite Index, Bubble Trouble and Shanghai shares soar as tax cut takes effect.
Way back in May of ‘07 Beijing took action to try and cool the market by introducing a stamp tax on trades. Despite the tax, [...]
The revivial of Nalanda, Asia’s oldest residential university
Submitted by 2point6billion.com Blog
Long before Oxford, Harvard or MIT ever made their mark on the global academic stage, Nalanda University in Bihar, (north-east India) attracted students from across Asia. Founded in 427 in northeastern India, not far from what is today the southern border of Nepal, and surviving until 1197, Nalanda, meaning Giver of knowledge [...]
cotton production (million tonnes)
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Numbers: (7.62,5.34)
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Must There Be a First Time for Everything?
Submitted by Experience Not Logic Blog
[Finals time is here, post frequency & depth might decline...]
The Economist.com has a new article up discussing the fallout over firm’s image and advertising dollars in connection with Darfur and the Beijing Olympics, Beyond the “genocide Olympics”. This article has generated more comments at the Economist than any article I’ve [...]
Scotch Whiskey sales (2006)($bn)
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Numbers: (1.1,0.048)
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India takes gold, China gets silver in race to reign the Textile industry
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After almost a year of negative growth, India’s textile and clothing industry’s exports to the U.S. grew by 8.26 percent in February this year, even as exports from China, the largest textile and clothing exporter to the U.S. (worth $32.3 billion or a third of US’ total T&C imports in 2007) slowed down registering a [...]
Emerging countries discuss global issues ahead of G8 summit.
Submitted by 2point6billion.com Blog
Emerging countries India, China, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa - the outreach countries of the G8 met in Beijing yesterday ahead of the G8 summit to be held in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido in July. The outreach countries, also permanent invitees to the G8 are meeting to discuss multilateral trade and [...]
China Choice of Law in 2003
Submitted by Experience Not Logic Blog
There’s an interesting article in the most recent edition of the Chinese Journal of International Law (7 Chinese J. Int’l L. 227 if you want to bring it up in WestLaw or LexisNexis) covering several subjects on Chinese judicial practice in 2003. The subjects covered include a statistical analysis of [...]
Emerging markets to demand more black gold than the U.S. for the first time this year.
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The International Energy Agency in Paris said that China, India, Russia and the Middle East for the first time will consume more crude oil than the U.S., burning 20.67 million barrels a day this year, an increase of 4.4 percent.
Bloomberg reported that economic growth of more than 8 percent in China and [...]
The Growth of Chinese Brands
Submitted by Experience Not Logic Blog
Today the Financial Times had a special report on Global Brands 2008. The heart of the report is the valuation and ranking of the world’s top 100 brands, the valuation and ranking of the top 10 brands in 16 sectors, and the valuation and ranking of the top 10 brands [...]
Managing Asia’s e-waste
Submitted by 2point6billion.com Blog
Today being world Earth Day, its only fit we discuss the next big environmental crisis to hit Asia - e-waste or electronic waste. With consumerism on the rise, the rate at which we buy and dispose off mobile phones, Tv’s, laptops, PC’s, refrigerators etc is only making the problem of e-waste worse [...]
Posts of the Week: 4/14 - 4/20
Submitted by Experience Not Logic Blog
In the interest of possibly drawing more Chinese visitors to the site, I’m expanding the title to include a Chinese idiom that roughly expresses the same idea as the current title. 不经一事，不长一智. Still, I’m not implying that I have much experience or wisdom. Rather, I am on a quest for [...]
Electrifying Automotive News
Submitted by Experience Not Logic Blog
The other day I was involved in a cross country dispute with a friend at Georgetown Law, Michael Rothstein. He said that electric cars (he actually thinks Tesla’s are too impractical because of both cost and limited size, but who wants to get linked to a defunct EV-1 website?) should [...]
National Geographic on China
Submitted by Experience Not Logic Blog
National Geographic’s May ‘08 issue is dedicated to all things China (h/t The Daily Dish). The articles appear to free online, at least for now. The issue covers a lot of ground including the middle class, water, the Olympics, the past, and the future. The coverage might be a little [...]
Films that bond Asia
Submitted by 2point6billion.com Blog
If its not politicians and huge trade volumes that bond countries in Asia, its got to be films.
After 43 years of not a single Pakistani film being screened in India, Shoaib Mansoor directed “Khuda Kay Liye” (“In the Name of God”) was released to rave reviews in India. Its the first Pakistani film [...]
Towards Nonpolarity
Submitted by Experience Not Logic Blog
In yesterday’s Financial Times there was an excerpt from a paper by Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations. After reading the excerpt I was so intrigued that I had to read the whole paper at Foreign Affairs, The Age of Nonpolarity: What Will Follow U.S. Dominance [available [...]
