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OPINION | ECONOMIC REFORM IS ALSO SECURITY

The Japanese prime minister's economic reform program lacks firepower. This lays into Xi's grand design to dominate the future of semiconductors, biotech, renewable energy, EVs, AI, robotics and aerospace, writes William Pesek.

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Kishida should learn from Xi that security is not just about arms

Japan cannot vie for leadership in Asia without substantive economic reform

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A group, a team, should have an aim, a job, a goal. A statement thereof must not be specific in detail, else it stifle initiative. By working in this way, ...


 2009

Latin America's Document-Driven Revolutions
LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Once a product of armed rebellion, the revolution in Latin America today is taking place on paper in the form of new constitutions, a mostly peaceful process influenced by the work of European legal scholars who have played a behind-the-scenes role in drafting the populist...
(By Joshua Partlow, The Washington Post)



Animators Envision 3-D TV at Home

Companies are making an ardent push to deliver 3-D versions of television shows, movies and videogames to the living room.

Leading the criticism of Mr. Thaksin is the People's Alliance for Democracy, a group of businessmen, academics and ardent royalists who fear that his brand of populist politics -- while popular with the masses of rural Thais -- is undermining the country's traditional ruling elites among the bureaucracy, the military and the royal family.

• Why Grandpa Wen has to care

  Never mind facing elections, China's Communist Party wants to be liked. Nothing wrong with that, but populism does bring dangers

pop verb (PUT)

 

[ T + adv/prep ] informal

to put or take something quickly:

If you pop the pizza in the oven now, it'll be ready in 15 minutes.

He popped his head into the room/around the door and said "Lunchtime!"

Pop your shoes on and let's go.

 Pop・u・list

━━ n. 【米史】人民党員; 人民主義者.
 Pop・u・lism　━━ n."民粹

ardent
adjective [before noun]
showing strong feelings:
an ardent supporter of Manchester United
an ardent feminist

stifle (PREVENT HAPPENING)
Verb [T]
to prevent something from happening, being expressed or continuing:
She stifled a cough/yawn/scream/sneeze.
I don't know how I managed to stifle my anger.
We should be encouraging new ideas, not stifling them.

stifling
stifling bureaucracy
initiative (NEW ACTION)
noun [C]
a new action or movement, often intended to solve a problem:
The peace initiative was welcomed by both sides.