Boycotting threats by Olympic athletes represent the most heinous realization of growing international anti-Chinese sentiment, beyond the refusal of politicians to attend the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The boycotts will inevitably be ineffective at realizing their aims because the aims are elusive to everyone involved. The hysteria caused partially by [...]

On March 29, 2008, the world celebrated its second annual Earth Hour, an epic sixty minutes of energy-saving, organized to draw attention to “The Greatest Threat Our Planet Has Ever Faced” – global warming, of course. A number of cities across the globe agreed simultaneously to shut off power together for a period of one [...]

On January 11, 2007, China, after a few misses, succeeded in blowing up one of their own low flying weather satellites, proving an intent toward scientific development that could one day challenge that of the United States. From March 2007 to 2008, there have been 12 arrests charging Chinese and Chinese-Americans with espionage against the [...]

Since America’s “unilateral” invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, it has been fashionable among the liberal and novice foreign policy critics alike to castigate the Bush foreign policy as “Cowboy Diplomacy.” This view of Bush as the Lone Ranger on a quixotic quest, tilting at the windmills of democracy in the Middle East, has [...]

When I heard a rumor that Hugo Chávez, the infamous President of Venezuela, would grace our university with his presence, I had mixed feelings. Although I am quite fond of discourse and dialogue, my other half yearned to plan for actions that were less intellectual, and far less peaceful. Luckily for everyone, the Chávez rumor [...]

Oh, you Muslims everywhere, sever the ties of their nation, tear them apart, ruin their economy, instigate against their corporations, destroy their embassies, attack their interests, sink their ships, and shoot down their airplanes. Kill them in land, at sea, and in the air. Kill them wherever you find them.” —Sheikh Abdel Rahman
While nobody enjoys [...]

In order to appear as a world leader on environmental issues, Beijing has come up with the slogan, the “green” Olympics for the 2008 games. In order for the slogan to have any weight, Beijing must improve its environmental protection, since the area currently has one of the worst records of pollution in the world. [...]

The 2008 Beijing Olympics means a lot more to China than the Salt Lake City Olympics meant to the United States, no matter how much Mitt Romney tries to play up one-half of his political experience. China, not just Beijing or a presidential candidate, has something to prove to the world next summer. Success in [...]

Finsbury Park, North London
Stepping off the subway at Finsbury Park, the change in scenery could not have been more acute. Just an hour earlier, I had been awed by the grandeur of Big Ben, towering over the British Houses of Parliament. It is the symbol of the England in our history books: a beacon of [...]

It is high summer in Washington, and there is one heck of a storm brewing on the banks of the Potomac River. Across the nation’s capital, senators and presidential candidates are lining up at the lectern to advocate a foolhardy policy of early withdrawal from Iraq. Politicians from both sides of the aisle are willfully [...]