The Balance of Spiritual Combat – China’s Cultural Challenge to the West in the 21st Century

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues, most recent | 0 comments © Terry Boardman   This essay appeared as an article in “New View” magazine Winter 2005/6     The Crucible of the 13th Century Many have recognised the great debt owed by western natural science to the spiritual stream of what has been called Islam, but which in fact is far broader than that of just the 7th century Arab conquerors of the Middle East, since it includes the...
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The 21st Century: American Dreams? European Imagination? Asian Contempt?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues, most recent | 0 comments   © Terry Boardman  September 1997   The recent death of Diana, Princess of Wales has led many in the media to claim that ‘a quiet revolution’ has been taking place in Britain, and that Diana was a symbol of this. We now have a chance to consider Britain’s identity, they say, where we want to go as a people in the 21st century, and they reflect on how we are becoming...
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“Independence Day” – Who are the Aliens at the Millennium Threshold?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues, most recent | 0 comments © Terry Boardman         This article first appeared in the German magazine Info3 in October 1996     The Hollywood summer blockbuster movie “Independence Day” begins with a shot of the American flag and plaque left behind by the Apollo astronauts on the surface of the Moon (“we came in peace for all mankind”). They are soon covered by the vast shadow of...
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What was Hong Kong Actually?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues | 0 comments   ©Terry Boardman March 1997   This article first appeared in Info3 magazine 1997 “I sometimes imagine Britannia standing on the Peak and looking down with an emotion of great pride upon the great Babylon which her sons have built”. – Rev. James Legge, Sinologue, resident in Hong Kong from the 1840s till the 1870s. When the abducted youngster Hong Kong is returned to...
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Patten and Murdoch Quarrel – David and Goliath Again?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues | 0 comments  © Terry Boardman  March 1998       This article first appeared in the German magazine Info3 in April 1998     Last year on May 29th at a sumptuous dinner in New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, global media mogul Rupert Murdoch must have been feeling smug as he received from the hands of  friend Henry Kissinger  the Humanitarian of the Year award from  the United Jewish...
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