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The US Presidential Election: Coming Right Up!
We’re getting to that time every four years when the United States has their presidential election. Both parties have chosen their nominees, not officially but that will happen soon at the conventions. I thought I’d take as objective a look as I possibly could at each candidate, not so much for our American readers as [...]
Is Apple Getting A Bad Rap?
It’s in all the headlines. “Protesters Confront Apple Over Foxconn Conditions”, “Apple’s Foxconn Electronics Manufacturer Blamed for Chinese Child Slave Labor”, “Apple, Foxconn and the Human Cost of Electronics Manufacturing in China”, those are just a smattering of media reports that all say basically the same thing, that Apple is responsible for China’s labor laws, [...]
They’re Taking Our Jobs! No, We’re Not!
There is something I find very puzzling that has been making the rounds for quite a few years that I’d like to address in this post, and that is the issue of jobs lost and gained in various economies and the reasons why. I’ll lay out the two sides and then explain what I found [...]
The Taiwan Presidential Election
On January 14, 2012, Taiwan ( ROC) will choose its next president. In this post, I’ll analyze the positions and histories of all three candidates, how they’ve waged their respective campaigns and which campaign issues really matter to the Taiwanese people. In the end, I’ll make a prediction based on how I see the race [...]
China’s Mountain of Debt
I recently ran across an article on Global Post where they interviewed Victor Shih, an assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University who received his PhD in government from Harvard. I began to notice some of these same observations way back in the early 2000′s when I lived over there but at that time, [...]
