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[via Jeff] This is probably the most important speech since Rupert Murdoch’s address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in April last year. Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters, made a speech to the Online Publishing Association last week. It’s in .doc format here. Some key bits (I’ve ended up posting most of the speech, … Continue reading “Tom Glocer gets it”
Benjamin Shwarz has a thoughtful piece on how America must deal with it’s primacy. He argues that since the end of the Cold War, the United States has not fully dealt with its new position, and must seriously consider it’s position, and soon. He notes: Defense analysts have grown increasingly nervous about the convergence of … Continue reading “The Perils of Primacy”
The most newsworthy aspect of the launch appears to be that crew quarters will be fitted with iPod docks. Development of the Type 45 goes back to 1988, when it was a multi-nation project, that broke into a tri-nation one in 1992, and then a UK only project in 1999. Construction began in April 2003, … Continue reading “HMS Daring launched”
Dan Drezner has a good round up of a debate in the blogosphere about itself. Jack Shafer’s column on Slate is especially worth reading. So, when newspaper reporters bellyache about shoot-from-the-hip bloggers who don’t fully investigate the paper trail before writing a story or double-check their facts before posting, they’re telling a valuable truth. Bad … Continue reading “What is it that blogs do?”
This week’s Economist carries a special report on China, I thought this map to be quite interesting. It details US troop deployments in countries within China’s reach. In Central Asia, the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO), a security forum comprising four Central Asian states plus China and Russia, is increasingly challenging America’s military presence in the … Continue reading “China and the US”
Perhaps the most interesting essay in the current issue of Foreign Affairs is about China’s energy strategy. David Zweig, Director of the Center on China’s Transnational Relations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the author of Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages and Bi Jianhai, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the … Continue reading “The Malacca Strait”
I spent the morning reading essays in the latest issues of Foreign Affairs, as ever there lots, and all make very interesting reading. One that caught my attention in my particular was by Zheng Bijian, Chair of the China Reform Forum, a nongovernmental and nonprofit academic organization. He has also drafted key reports for five … Continue reading “China's "Peaceful Rise" to Great-Power Status”
So Rupert Murdoch is criticising Yahoo for its policies in China. Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York during the UN summit, the Economist reports that Murdoch castigated Yahoo: FIERCELY independent media mogul and defender of democracy everywhereâthat was the Rupert Murdoch on display at a Bill Clinton-organised conference in New York on … Continue reading “The end of the affair: Rupert Murdoch in China”
Rebecca MacKinnon has the story, all Typepad blogs have been blocked inside China. Gosh the Chinese are getting really worried…Rebecca notes: All Typepad blogs, including this one, cannot be seen in China. (Note that Blogger has been blocked in China for some time.) I asked some people in China to attempt accessing this blog and … Continue reading “Confirmed: All Typepad blogs blocked in China”
MSN recently decided to go along with the Chinese authorities and block certain profane words like “human rights,” “democracy,” and “freedom of speech”. The fascinating blogosphere reaction is detailed here. Thankfully with technology there is always a workaround.