41. Is Australia merely America's poodle in the Asia-Pacific?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... basically identified China has a threat. In this context, Australia has agreed to a major strengthening in its long-term alliance with the US by buying 12 new submarines and allowing the rotation of ...

42. Will China overtake the US?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... sun finds itself with a GDP per capita about one-quarter less than America.  Europe's post-war recovery was very rapid, but none of Europe's major economies have made it to the same level of GDP per capita ...

43. An Indo-Pacific Strategy for Australia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... one day to become our second biggest export market.  Coal and education services are major exports to India.  Although they have not yet shown up in the official data, Indian companies have major investment ...

44. China, India and Indonesia -- safety first, please
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... major cities, areas frequented by tourists ..." "Major secular and religious holidays could provide terrorist groups an opportunity or pretext to stage an attack ... a number of terrorist attacks in ...

45. Is China's economy in the balance?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... see a house of cards that will soon implode in a major financial crisis. East Asian countries see China as the centre of a production sharing network that helped the region to recover from its own financial ...

46. How the Philippines benefits from Australia's booming links with China
(Panorama/International Trade)

... relationship with China has also played a major role.  China is now by far Australia's most important merchandise export destination, accounting for some 26 per cent of the total.  These exports are predominately ...

47. Asia and Europe
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... from Asia." But how fair and balanced are these criticisms of Europe? Of course, Europe has deep problems at the moment with the euro crisis.  But it is still a major player on the global scene and ...

48. Australia to the UN Security Council?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... from 1975 to 1983 not only continued these Labor policies, but reinforced them.  A major initiative was embracing Vietnamese refugees, a large number of whom were welcomed as migrants. The Hawke and ...

49. China's internal weakness and external strength
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... say that China's endemic corruption also means that many of these overseas investments serve to fill the pockets of Communist Party officials. Chinese politics have now become a very major constraint ...

50. China's intellectual repression
(Panorama/Culture)

... poet and essayist Liu Xiaobo to such a point that he is put in jail. One of the first major events in the life of Liu Xiaobo occurred as he was deprived of several years of conventional schooling when ...