CHINESE ECONOMY MONITOR— NOTE 1

Global Geopolitics Net Sites – Global News Blog Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – Chennai Center for China Studies www.c3sindia.org B.RAMAN ( What will be the impact of the global financial and economic melt-down on the Chinese economy? This question should be of interest to the other countries of the South and [...]

ECONOMY: Asia-EU Summit to Address ‘Financial Tsunami’

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 22, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Oct 22 (IPS) – Cast in the role of global saviour in the unfolding financial turmoil, China is playing host to a meeting of Asian and European leaders in Beijing this [...]

AL QAEDA & THE MARRIOTT HOTEL CHAIN

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.448 Global Intel Net – Global Geopolitics Net Sites Sunday, September 21, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN Since 9/11, the Marriott Hotel Chain has been the victim of six terrorist strikes mounted by Al Qaeda and pro-Al Qaeda jihadi terrorist organisations. On four occasions—- thrice [...]

The Dragon, Emerging soft colonial power

Global Geopolitics Net Sites Friday, September 19, 2008 © Copyright 2008 Malladi Rama Rao. All rights reserved. By Malladi Rama Rao The dazzling display at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games may have reminded some of the Mao-era mass parades in The Tiananmen Square. But not to the people across the [...]

COUNTER-TERRORISM: ACT NOW

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.445 Global News Blog – Global Geopolitics Net Sites Thursday, September 18, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN The address of the Prime Minister, Dr.Manmohan Singh, to the Governors’ conference at New Delhi on September 17,2008, contains a number of important pronouncements relating to the fight [...]