Online MBA

on February 15, 2013

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Deciding to earn a Master of Business Administration online is definitely a big step. Pursuing an online MBA requires a significant investment and dedication, but the dividends the degree can bring — potentially higher salaries, promotions, and more opportunities — make it worth the effort.

A War Between China and Japan: What it Could Cost You

on February 15, 2013

Global economists are keeping their eyes glued to the Asia-Pacific region, where a bitter feud is brewing between two of the world’s most powerful nations over a small collectivity of islands in the East China Sea. The Chinese government argues that a treaty signed during the first Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) conferred ownership of the islands to China. Japan has long disputed these claims, and today argues that the islands are integral to its national identity.

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U.S.-China Tensions: What Must Kerry Do?

A China File Conversation

By Dorinda Elliott, Elizabeth Economy & more on February 15, 2013

Dorinda Elliott:

On a recent trip to China, I heard a lot of scary talk of potential war over the disputed Diaoyu Islands—this from both senior intellectual types and also just regular people, from an elderly calligraphy expert to a middle-aged history professor. People seemed to blame the U.S. for encouraging Japan in pushing its claims over the islands. (The assumption being that the U.S. wants to contain China, to keep China down.) So is war a real danger, and what should the U.S. do to defuse tensions?

Dancing in Empty Beijing

By Ian Johnson on February 15, 2013

The Lunar New Year began last week as it always does, with a new moon. The empty sky seemed to empty Beijing of up to half its residents—authorities estimate that an incredible nine million people left the city, which usually has a population of eighteen to twenty million.

New America

on February 14, 2013

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Since 1999, New America has nurtured a new generation of policy experts and public intellectuals. Today it is a community of innovative problem-solvers, combining core expertise in researching, reporting, and analysis with new areas of coding, data science, and human-centered design to experiment and innovate nationally and globally. It prizes intellectual and ideological independence and diversity, seeking to do its best work and to reflect the America we are becoming.