Beyond Ishihara Shintaro & Halford Mackinder: William E. Deming – 2012 to 1979

Posted by on Jan 24, 2013 in east west issues, miscellaneous | 0 comments This article was first published in New View magazine, Winter 2012. This is a slightly expanded version of that published article Time has been much on my mind this year, as I turned the round and weighty number of 60 in the Chinese Year of the Dragon, and my first grandchild arrived on Earth. Time has clearly been on the minds of millions of others this year too. The reason of course is the...
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China vs Japan: The Danger of War – 100 years on, it’s the same story

Posted by on Jan 24, 2013 in blog, east west issues | 0 comments    http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21569740-risks-clash-between-china-and-japan-are-risingand-consequences-could-be “CHINA and Japan are sliding towards war……America is obliged to come to Japan’s aid if it is attacked, and being sucked into a conflict with China is almost too unbearable to contemplate. But in the face of repeated Chinese incursions, a Japanese...
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The 21st Century: American Dreams? European Imagination? Asian Contempt?

Posted by on Jul 21, 2012 in east west issues, threefold Society | 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...
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Desert Islands – The Three Historical Temptations of England and Japan

Posted by on Jul 10, 2012 in east west issues | 0 comments by Terry Boardman This essay first appeared in New View magazine Summer 2011 In my life, music has been the art that has touched me the most, and music has about it much of the element of dream in that – especially if one is not a trained musician who thinks about music in terms of scores, crotchets, quavers, minims and the aspects of musical technique etc. – one experiences music as it...
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Into the Bleak Midwinter? The Indian Ocean and Korea

Posted by on Jul 2, 2012 in east west issues | 0 comments © Terry Boardman     This article first appeared in New View magazine Issue 58 Winter 2010/2011 Here in the Northern hemisphere as we approach the darkest time of year I can only say that the omens for peace in 2011 do not look good and that is without even thinking about America, Israel and Iran. First, it is well to be aware of some East Asian anniversaries. There will be many in that...
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War in Eurasia 2011 ? Adbusters and The Economist

Posted by on Jul 2, 2012 in east west issues | 0 comments This essay is  about a couple of articles that appeared recently (May) in Adbusters magazine, and their relation to something that appeared in The Economist in Dec. 1992 “Adbusters Media Foundation is a not-for-profit, anti-consumerist organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz  in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The foundation describes itself as “a global...
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