Impressions of India
India remains a mystery to me. I spent two weeks in southern India in January, in Chennai and Kerala. It was the first time I had visited any part of th...
Category: Countries
No spring for shiite Syria
Robert Fisk’s unsentimental analysis of Assad’s strengths As long as Syria can trade with Iraq, it can trade with Iran and, of course, it can trade with Le...
Zoellick on China’s choices
A discursive account by Greg Sheridan in The Australian of a conversation with World Bank President Robert Zoellick on, among other things, China’s d...
Standard and Poor’s reasons
It’s difficult to argue with the Standard & Poor’s assessment of the U.S. fiscal outlook, or with their downgrade of the U.S. long-term sovereign c...
Professional services reform in Italy
The Berlusconi government has announced a package of emergency measures to liberalize the Italian economy that includes a “constitutional” chang...
The limits of WTO litigation
Good sense from a former Chair of the WTO Appellate Body. "It is in the best interest of both countries to continue negotiating on the currency issue rather th...
Another small step
But it's impossible to ignore the significance of this continuing internationalization of the remminbi. "Although it has no short-term implications for the ful...