1. China's foreign investment
(Panorama/Investment)

Foreign direct investment (FDI) coming from Chinese enterprises, especially state-owned enterprises (SOEs), is making waves in countries like Australia, Canada and the United States. In Canada recently, ...

2. Asian Migration
(Panorama/Migration)

... of its educated citizens. As political and social instability have grown over the past year in China, there has also been much anecdotal evidence of Chinese citizens migrating to the US, Canada and Australia ...

3. Whither Obama, the global president?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... place of his father) and Indonesia (his childhood residence).  With Romney threatening to declare China a currency manipulator from day one, it is also not surprising that our Chinese friends also prefer ...

4. Globalization, the word
(Panorama/Globalization)

... concern for suitability – customers will prefer its world-standardized products.” “So-called ethnic markets are a good example.  Chinese food, pita bread, country and western music, pizza and jazz are ...

5. Singapore in the Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... ethnic groups form the Singaporean nation: Chinese (74%), Malay (13%), Indians (9%) and Eurasians (4%). There are four official languages: Mandarin, Malay, Tamil and English, but the common language and ...

6. America's Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... that nearly three-quarters of Asian-American adults were born abroad.  The six largest Asian-American groups by country of origin are Chinese Americans (4.0 million or 23 per cent of Asian Americans), ...

7. India's paradoxes
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile, "Agni V".  It was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead for distances of up to 5000 kilometres, putting major Chinese cities within striking distance ...

8. China's reform in a bind
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

...  The Chinese government has been responding by fiscal stimulus and monetary easing.  But more fundamental changes are required, especially since the economy may weaken further. China needs to get more ...

9. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... public opinion had been reacting very adversely to the Chinese presence. The ASEAN countries had been holding out an olive branch to Burma in terms of ASEAN presidency in 2014 and trade and investment ...

10. Culture Wise China
(Panorama/Culture)

... such cultural wisdom, there is no better place to start than Leo Lacy's book of that title. Lacey's book provides a wideranging overview of issues like: culture shock; the Chinese people, their history, ...

11. Microfinance today
(Panorama/Finance)

... like a prime market for Grameen-style microfinance services, with about 394.6 million people living under $2 a day. However, the Chinese poor face very different challenges than Bangladeshis. Firstly, ...

12. Economic growth prospects in Asia
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... fact, the lower is the level of development relative to the steady state, the higher subsequent growth tends to be.  This is the benefit of backwardness.  So while the Chinese might brag about their very ...

13. Human capital in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... in 2010/11 there were 158,000 Chinese students in the US, representing 22% of the total for America's international students, according to the Institute of International Education.  Following closely behind ...

14. Asia's information society
(Panorama/Society)

... Chinese were online, against one in ten Indians. Another country that has made great strides in terms of Internet users is the Philippines, where an estimated one-quarter of the population was using ...

15. Understanding the Rise of China -- Martin Jacques
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... and so on.  While China may be diverse and pluralistic, the Chinese are fundamentally shaped by their civilization. Second, at least 90% of the Chinese think of themselves as one race, the Han.  This ...

16. Asia's low quality jobs
(Panorama/Society)

... following a series of suicides linked to low pay in 2010.  A report by twenty Chinese universities described Foxconn factories as labour camps and detailed widespread worker abuse and illegal overtime.  ...

17. China's reform in a bind
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

...  The Chinese government has been responding by fiscal stimulus and monetary easing.  But more fundamental changes are required, especially since the economy may weaken further. China needs to get more ...

18. Democracy in China?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

An old friend of mine recently assured me that the Chinese people are not interested in democracy.  They only want prosperity and stability.  He is of course an Australian businessman who has profited ...

19. Tyranny in China and Russia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... accouterments of liberal society.   It is not unreasonable to think this, and there are millions of Russians and Chinese who passionately believe it and seek it, and if they have need of our help, we should ...

20. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Development)

... public opinion had been reacting very adversely to the Chinese presence. The ASEAN countries had been holding out an olive branch to Burma in terms of ASEAN presidency in 2014 and trade and investment ...