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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1908 and 2008: Earth Monkey, Earth Rat

Posted by on Jul 2, 2012 in east west issues | 0 comments   © Terry Boardman     This article first appeared in New View magazine 1st Quarter Winter 2008/09     There are particularly momentous years in the biographies of individuals and in the histories of nations. For example, 2008 has clearly turned out to be one such year in the modern history of China . Against a background of increasing concern in the western media about the...
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Tibet and Its Guardians – between China and the West (2)

Posted by on Jul 2, 2012 in east west issues | 0 comments This article was first published in New View magazine Issue 49 -  4th Quarter Autumn 2008 Following on from part 1 (New View 3rd Quarter Summer 2008) this article will consider the question: “Why are China and the West so concerned to be the guardians  of  Tibet and its people?” from three aspects: economic, political and spiritual. Tibet on the Economic Chessboard In April 1904...
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Tibet and its Guardians – between China and the West (1)

Posted by on Jul 2, 2012 in east west issues | 0 comments This article was first published in New View magazine Issue 48 3rd Quarter July – Sept 2008   It’s a paradox. The more we human beings are willing to hear one another’s differences, the more hope there is that we can cooperate toward truly human ends. The more we accept our divergences, the greater the hope for convergence. For we cannot arrive at the truth of love without working...
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The US-China Relationship in the 21st Century and the Spectres of 1776 (2)

Posted by on Jul 2, 2012 in east west issues | 0 comments   © Terry Boardman This article first appeared  in New View magazine 2nd Quarter Spring 2007     The year 1776 saw four developments of crucial importance which are all in a sense related: the American Declaration of Independence from Britain, the publications of Adam Smith’s book The Wealth of Nations and the first part of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the...
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