Sep 6, 2008 | Articles
Despite the glitter that surrounded both the Olympics in Beijing and the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the messages coming to Asia from the two events were very different. From Beijing, the message was, to put it in the words of one pundit, China has had a...
Jul 28, 2008 | Articles
There is something surreal about the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva , which aim at coming up with a new agreement to bring down tariffs in order to expand world trade and resuscitate global growth. In the face of the looming specter of...
Jul 8, 2008 | Speeches
The G7 were not successful in coordinating their policies, with the US under Ronald Reagan aggressively pursuing a cheap dollar policy that brought on recession in Germany and Japan. They did, however, come together in a united front against the developing...
Jul 7, 2008 | Articles
(Sapporo, July 6, 2008) Trade, climate change, skyrocketing oil prices, and debt have been the topics of discussion in the parallel civil society events to the Group of Eight Summit, but the issue that has drawn the greatest attention is the Japanese...
Jun 18, 2008 | Speeches
We ought not to be completely helpless, however. What is so shocking about the current state of affairs is that our capacity to influence developments in oil has deteriorated from 25 years ago. Then we had a proactive energy strategy, we had a government energy...
