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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Asia</title>
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		<title>China Rises in Science</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/30/china-rises-in-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/30/china-rises-in-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post covered China&#8217;s rising scientific prowess today, revealing both impressive gains and some weak spots.
China is steadily accumulating bragging points:

China has the world&#8217;s second-fastest supercomputer.
China has gone from 14th place in 1995 in publications in scientific and technical journals to 2nd now, behind the US.
A Chinese institute made the largest-ever purchase of high-tech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confucianism as Chinese Soft Power</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/21/confucianism-as-chinese-soft-power/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/21/confucianism-as-chinese-soft-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 16:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cultural power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports that Confucianism is enjoying a revival in China, propelled both by state promotion and popular enthusiasm.
The Party, Andrew Higgins suggests, sees the philosophy as a counter to Westernization, but it is not without danger to existing power structures, as it requires rulers to be virtuous and benevolent.  Still, Confucianism could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World in 2010: Economic Forecasts</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/world-in-2010-economic-forecasts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/world-in-2010-economic-forecasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the Economist&#8217;s World in 2010 conference this week.  The economic outlook was cautiously positive.
Carmen Reinhart, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics, University of Maryland:

A rapid V-shaped recovery is unlikely, as the conditions are not in place.
The revenue hit inflicted by the recession will accelerate the arrival of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Had US; Who Does US Hand Off To?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/16/uk-us-%e2%89%a0-us-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/16/uk-us-%e2%89%a0-us-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an attack on the Obama administration&#8217;s policy of &#8220;strategic reassurance,&#8221; Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal make an interesting point
&#8220;Strategic reassurance&#8221; seems to chart a different course. Senior officials liken the policy to the British accommodation of a rising United States at the end of the 19th century, which entailed ceding the Western Hemisphere to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paths for China</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/19/paths-for-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/19/paths-for-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zachary Karabell, author of Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s Prosperity Depends on It, spoke at New America Foundation this afternoon.
In discussing the deep mutual dependence of the US and Chinese economies, he suggested that two pathways are likely: 

China and the US might be like future EU members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Moves Up the Rankings, Japan Down</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/02/china-moves-up-the-rankings-japan-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/02/china-moves-up-the-rankings-japan-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is about to become the world&#8217;s second-largest economy, supplanting Japan, the New York Times reports.
This &#8220;will bring an end to a global economic order that has prevailed for 40 years, with ramifications across arenas from trade and diplomacy to, potentially, military power,&#8221; the Times notes.
China is already the second-largest economy measured by purchasing power, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for China&#8217;s Rise</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/17/waiting-for-chinas-rise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/17/waiting-for-chinas-rise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pew released data today about global expectations of China&#8217;s rise and the US role in the world.
People are not that certain of China&#8217;s rise.  Majorities or pluralities in only half of the countries surveyed &#8220;believe that China will &#8212; or already has &#8212; replaced the U.S. as the world&#8217;s leading superpower.&#8221;  Sensibly, only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linked Conflicts from the Caucasus to Central Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/16/linked-conflicts-from-the-caucasus-to-central-asia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/16/linked-conflicts-from-the-caucasus-to-central-asia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caucasus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uzbekistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in Foreign Policy, Paul Quinn-Judge outlines a scenario in which &#8220;the fighters of the Caucasus Emirate link up with their jihadi allies in Central Asia, turning much of the southern rim of the former Soviet Union into a zone of low-intensity warfare.&#8221;
He writes that &#8220;The absolute worst-case scenario &#8212; a gradual linking-up of insurgents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Solar in China (Maybe)</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/09/big-solar-in-china-maybe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/09/big-solar-in-china-maybe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China has plans to create a 25-square-mile photovoltaic solar farm.  The array would have a two-gigawatt capacity; this could power three million homes, ABC News reports.
Of course, China has announced a lot of sustainability projects that haven&#8217;t quite panned out.  Still, ABC notes that China is the world&#8217;s largest producer of solar panels, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan: Extremists against Extremism?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/20/pakistan-extremists-against-extremism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/20/pakistan-extremists-against-extremism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polling by the Pew Global Attitudes Project show that Pakistani attitudes are shifting.  They are far more worried about extremism, and feel less positive about al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Seventy percent have an unfavorable view of the Taliban, vs. 33% in 2008.  On al Qaeda, 61% now hold unfavorable views, compared to 34% [...]]]></description>
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