In his introduction to The Lexus and the Olive Tree, published in 1999, Thomas Freidman states that "[t]he world is 10 years old. It was born when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The Cold War system was replaced by a new, very greased, interconnected system called globalization." As a...

DIRECT LINKAGES Geographical proximity has facilitated capital flows, as north east Asian manufacturers of labor intensive exports moved their factories south to take advantage of the skilled labor which helped a lot Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. From policy view point these linkages have been ...

How Western Modernize Asia Because of a lot advanced technology, modern military goods, and a vast demand for raw material, market, and labor that were resulted in Industrial Revolution in western countries, and an arrogant self- confidence in western civilization, the imperialism that was combin...

"In the formative era of Chinese civilization as early as the first millennium b.c. the Chinese thought of the world as all the regions of the heavens, and within the "four seas." They called it Tianxia, which literally means "under heaven." Because this was a universal...

The Tiananmen Square Massacre: The World's Response to One of China's Most Embarrassing Events In the spring of 1989 in Beijing, China tens of thousands of student protesters lined the streets surrounding Tiananmen Square and filled the square itself. The reasons for their pro-democracy...

Many of Mao Tse Tung's principles were based on the firmly rooted Confucian traditions extant in China. Therefore, many of Mao's tenets seem similar to those of Confucianism, such as a strong respect for leaders and a belief in simple lifestyles. However, in many significant ways, Mao's bel...

Many today believe that China is on its way to becoming one of the world's top superpowers. Increased diplomatic talks with the United States and its recent admission into the World Trade Organization only emphasize its growing political and economic importance. According to an article in TIME ...

On October 1st 1949, Mao Tse-tung, the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and leader of the communist armies proclaimed the People's Republic of China. It was a hard-fought victory for Mao and the communists, a victory which had come after nearly four years of unbridled civil war....