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 Global Total Debt Scorecard

The International Economy , Fall 2014

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 Ending Greece’s Nightmare

Paul Krugman , The New York Times , JAN. 27 , 2015
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/opinion/paul-krugman-ending-greeces-nightmare.html

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 North Korea Dabbles in reform

Andrei Lankov , The New York Times , JAN. 22 , 2015
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/opinion/north-korea-dabbles-in-reform.html

 

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 The Devotion Leap

David Brooks , The New York Times , JAN. 24 , 2015
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/opinion/david-brooks-the-devotion-leap.html

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Stop checking email so often

 
Kostadin Kushlev and Elizabeth W. Dunn, New York Times
Jan.12 2015 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/opinion/sunday/stop-checking-email-so-often.html?_r=0

-"研究發現，一天查電郵三次以內，人比較快樂。"

"Research has found :One is happier if checking one's email within three times a day."
 

林中斌 2015年01月12日
 

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 Cheap Oil Could Boost Xi Jinping

 
Ian Bremer, TIME, Jan.26 2015

油價下跌，習近平聲勢上升

林中斌 2015年01月26日
 

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 The Age of Miracle

 
Michael Elliott, Time, Jan.20 2015
 
http://time.com/author/michael-elliott-2/

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Islam's problem with blasphemy

Mustafa Akyol, Nwe York Times, Jan.15 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/opinion/islams-problem-with-blasphemy.html?_r=0
 

"可蘭經沒有要求用暴力對待不敬"

林中斌 2015年1月15日
 

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 What’s gone wrong with democracy

The Economist, March 1, 2014

http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21596796-democracy-was-most-successful-political-idea-20th-century-why-has-it-run-trouble-and-what-can-be-do

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 I am not Charlie Hebdo

David Brooks, International New York Times, JAN. 10, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/opinion/david-brooks-i-am-not-charlie-hebdo.html?_r=0

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 Forget the 1%

 

Economists , NOV 8, 2014

 

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21631129-it-001-who-are-really-getting-ahead-america-forget-1

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 The Problem With Meaning
 
David Brooks, International New York Times , JAN. 5, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/opinion/david-brooks-the-problem-with-meaning.html

史丹佛傑出校友說：
「我們成長後發現重要的不是知識和技術，而是學到如何避免自我摧毀，如何處理壓力。我們也學到自憐或不滿是最毒的毒藥，我們發現：社會重視聰明才智，但是社會犒賞的是我們的個性。我們也學到：無論如何努力，終有人不喜歡你。
這個教訓開始我們很難接受，但是後來反而讓我們寬心了。」
 

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 An Aging Europe in Decline
 
Arthur C. Brooks, International New York Times , JAN. 6, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/opinion/an-aging-europes-decline.html
 

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 The Western Model Is Broken

Pankaj Mishra, Guardian , OCT 14, 2014

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/-sp-western-model-broken-pankaj-mishra

“The Western Model Is Broken”
Pankaj Mishra, Guardian October 14, 2014
“西方模式喪失塑造世界力量
印度知名作家潘卡杰˙米什拉文章”
參考消息  2014年10月20日
 

 
-“過去歐洲沒有一個國家，是在民主的政體下，像今天的中國和印度一般快速發展它的經濟。當歐洲開始工業化的時候，當煙囪在郊外快速林立的時候，當更多的橋樑和鐵路在建造的時候，歐洲沒有國家同時享有個人自由、公民普遍的投票權、和議會制度。”
 
“No European country”, Raymond Aron pointed out, “ever went through the phase of economic development which India and China are now experiencing, under a regime that was representative and democratic.” Nowhere in Europe, he wrote in The Opium of Intellectuals, “during the long years when industrial populations were growing rapidly, factory chimneys looming up over the suburbs and railways and bridges being constructed, were personal liberties, universal suffrage and the parliamentary system combined”.
 
-在1945年之後，新加坡、台灣、馬來西亞、和南韓的經驗告訴我們：蓬勃的資本主義經濟需要配上限制的民主才行得通。
 
“Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and South Korea went on to show, after 1945, that a flourishing capitalist economy always was compatible with the denial of democratic rights.”

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 How Obama’s Undercover Statecraft Secured Three Major Accords

MARK LANDLER, International New York Times ,  DEC. 19, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/us/mastering-the-art-of-secret-negotiations.html?_r=0

 

歐巴馬最近三個外交突破的運作原則:
1.小: 2-3人談判隊伍
2.外：不屬於外交部官僚系統
3.嚴:守口如瓶
4.緊: 總統貼身人直接指揮
5.耐: 早開始、有耐心 (從緬甸突破就開始培養隊伍。北京最後一刻才答應)
請與失敗的馬習會運作(單方面大張旗鼓的要求)對比。
 

 林中斌 2014.12.30

 
Five principles underlined Obama's recent diplomatic breakthroughs(Cuba, Iran, China):
 1. a small team (two at most three trustworthy negotiators)
 2.outside of the bureaucracy: bypassing the State Department
 3. strict discipline (no leaks)
 4.tight control by the White House
 5. early start and patience (all started with Myanmar)
 
Contrast this with the failed, fanfare, one-sided operation under Presient Ma to meet with President Xi.
 

 Chong-Pin Lin December 30, 2014

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 An Uneasy Path Abroad
 
Ian Bremmer, Times,  JAN. 15, 2015
 
http://time.com/3639408/ian-bremmer-uneasy-path/
 

Ian Bremmer , president of Eurasia Group makes the following points:
 
 

1. In foreign policy , American power is on the wane amidst the “de-Americanization of the international system”

2. Japan now knows that Washinton is less likely to intervene in its security disputes(Senkakus/Diaoyus)

3. In 2015 , the U.S. Export-Import Bank of 80 years will be ended.

4. China’s state-owned companies are working more effectively.

5. In 2012, the U.S. was the largest trade partner for 76 countries , and China was the lead partner for 124.

 
 

ChongPin Lin Dec.26, 2014

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 Climate Strange
Forget global warming-and get ready for global weirding
 
Bryan Walsh, Times,  JAN. 15, 2015
 
http://time.com/3643801/climate-strange/

  In 2014 much of the eastern half of the U.S. was gripped by cold so extreme that 91% of the Great Lakes was frozen by the beginning of March, the second largest extent of ice in more than 40 years.
  Throughout the contiguous U.S., average temperatures for the winter were 1°F below the 20th century average. Yet the West was comparatively hot, and California had its warmest winter on record.
 

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 Obama Unbound
 
Timothy Egan, International New York Times,  DEC. 19, 2014

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/opinion/obama-unbound.html

歐巴馬於中期選舉時民主黨大敗之後，出奇的攻克五座堡壘

1.美國古巴恢復邦交

2.美、中達氣候合作協議

3.放寬移民政策

4.縮小兩性工資差距

5.行政命令保護鮭魚生態環境
 

林中斌 2014年12月26日
 

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 Conquest Is for Losers
 
Paul Krugman, International New York Times,  DEC. 21, 2014
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/opinion/paul-krugman-putin-neocons-and-the-great-illusion.html?_r=0

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Tony Blair: Is Democracy Dead?

Tony Blair , International New York Times , DEC. 4, 2014
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/opinion/tony-blair-is-democracy-dead.html
 

 

(可參閱個人先前之文章：http://blog.yam.com/CPLin/article/73091618 )

英國前首相2014年12月4日投稿紐約時報 "民主已死？" 九個月前，在下投稿聯合報"民主病了!" 巧合???

林中斌  2014.12.17

 
Tony Blaire wrote in December 4, 2014 New York Times "Is Democracy Dead?". Yours truly, nine months ago, printed a piece in United Daily News entitled "Democracy Is Sick!" A coincidence?

Chong-Pin Lin  Dec. 17, 2014

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