“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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Must The Great Game Be Replayed?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues, most recent | 0 comments   ©Terry Boardman   Nov. 1997   This article first appeared in the German magazine Info3  in January 1998 When I was a small boy, two board games were very popular in our family, indeed in families throughout the country: “Monopoly” and “Risk”. In “Monopoly” one sought to buy up famous London streets, build hotels on them and charge the highest rents...
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The Voice of Asia?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2012 in east west issues | 0 comments ©Terry Boardman       This article first appeared in the German magazine Info3 in September 1996   To paraphrase Karl Marx, a spectre is stalking the print rooms and media studios of the West today. It is the spectre of Genghis Khan, the ghost of the Yellow Peril: “the threat from the Far East”. Hardly a politician’s speech is complete without some reference to the...
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