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At the beginning of the eighteenth century, India accounted for 25% of world GDP, and China accounted for 30% – the two countries together made up more than half of global economic output. But by the end of the Second World War, India was down to 4% and China represented just 5% of global output. Understanding just this, said Anja Manuel, helps to explain the policies and the worldviews of the world's two largest countries, both of whom are often frustrating or mystifying to US policy-makers.
The Brexit vote took Europe by surprise, and nobody knows where it is all going – least of all the British who voted – but there are some signs that some form of compromise will be done to maintain trading links between Europe and its second biggest economy, said international lawyer and former US Trade negotiator Justin Hughes.
The peace movement in Israel is shrinking towards irrelevance, said Yossi Alpher, a former Israeli military intelligence officer and Mossad operative, who delivered a candid and grim assessment of the Israel-Palestine conflict at a Los Angeles World Affairs Council dinner on Thursday, June 23.
America has lost 6,883 servicemen and women in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to date. 'Did the policy match the sacrifice?' asked Kael Weston, a State Department official who spent seven years in both countries during the wars. His answer is no – our strategy for Afghanistan was wrong
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Henry Kissinger famously used to say “when I want to call Europe, whom do I call?” Now, said US Ambassador to Germany John Emerson, 'We have the answer to that question – and it is Angela Merkel.'
Shanghai is China's biggest and most cosmopolitan city, in many ways the leading edge of change in the country of 1.3 billion people. Poor farmers come from the countryside to work on building sites and pursue their dreams, while young rich Shanghainese drive by in Ferraris on their way to visit art galleries and their slice of the Chinese dream.
Republican strategist Karl Rove said that the unfavorable polls for this presidential election are 'jaw-droppingly bad' and that voters are faced with 'choosing between the lesser of two evils.' He said Trump has 'thrown out the rule book', and 'anybody who says they know how this election will turn out is kidding themselves.' Rove spoke at a Los Angeles World Affairs Council event Thursday
India has started to come out of its shell to play a larger diplomatic and military role in Asia, just as China has begun flexing its muscles. The once-inward and fiercely non-aligned nation is now growing ever closer to the US and Japan as it reacts to the aggressive rise of China.
The discovery of gravitational waves earlier this year – something predicted a century ago in theory by Albert Einstein – may usher in an entirely new type of physics that could completely change the way we understand the universe, said Dr David Reitze at Caltech.
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China's notorious one-child policy will continue to affect the country for decades to come, despite being officially suspended last year – and the entire policy may have been misconstrued from the start. The forced abortions and sterilizations may be over, said Pulitzer-prize winning author Mei Fong…
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