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Today the tigers are being tripped up by this same lifeline. As consumer and industrial demand dries up in recession-racked Western countries, East Asia's export-led nations are proving to be highly vulnerable to a synchronized global slowdown. Among the tigers, overseas trade is shrinking with frightening speed: Taiwan's exports in January plunged 44% from the same month a year earlier, while Singapore's fell 35% and South Korea...
...Marshall Plan’s deployment in Europe. The films range widely in genre and rhetorical strategy, from simple narratives about how the Plan’s programs could improve daily life, to more broadly pedantic lectures on the nascent, but nevertheless looming threat of totalitarianism from the East.“They’re entertaining and witty, and they offer really interesting examples of effective public communication,” Schulberg says. “Examples that can both inspire and educate their audiences at the same time.” Schulberg first became interested in these films...
...continues to improve today, with writers such as Art Spiegelman producing Pulitzer prize-winning works. “I think that graphics as a medium has grown up with people like Marjane Satrapi and Speigelman,” says Adam L. Kern, an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages who teaches a class on Japanese literature. “And I think that’s been something that’s revolutionized comics. It’s no longer superheroes in underwear. Now comics have become more respectable and a more serious medium...
...Overseas, Japan, which just 20 years ago was the subject of books (how strangely they read now) predicting it would overtake the U.S. as the world's No. 1 economy, must cope with a resurgent competitor to its east. China's economic model is now admired around the world as a model, as Japan's once was. Asia has never seen a time when both China and Japan were simultaneously strong. That does not mean such a state of affairs is impossible; it does mean that both nations will need wise leaders if they are not to turn into bitter...
...help ensure that Turkey gets back on track on issues that matter: E.U. membership, fully addressing the grievances of the country's large Kurdish minority and better democracy. And a more stable Turkey can only strengthen its position as a moderate role model for the countries to its east...