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...calling for a full return to the gold standard now. But a partial return, in which central banks hold gold as a hedge against financial turmoil (the Reserve Bank of India just bought $6.7 billion of the stuff from the International Monetary Fund) and gold begins to play a role in the pricing of oil and other important monetary tasks, may well be in the cards. Gold is looking less barbarous than the alternatives...
...Indian media, it still can't shake a perception in India that it has lost ground to China in the new Administration's Asia policy. Many in New Delhi saw Obama's performance in China as acquiescent toward an emboldened Beijing. And they see India having a diminished role in the strategic calculations of Obama's White House, at least in comparison to the centrality it enjoyed during George W. Bush's eight years in office. (See pictures of Obama's first state dinner...
...Obama has the charm, while Clinton has the finesse and finishing touch in implementing policy. While I have my reservations, I think they both will steer the ship of Washington well. Clinton's role on the global stage is to balance power. As internationalist Democrats, both Obama and Clinton ought to engage with the G-20 nations, building bridges abroad while promoting democracy for real. As far as domestic matters are concerned, the U.S. must spend less and save more if it is to remain a power beyond the Obama-Clinton era. P.J. John Singapore...
...politicians on the national stage has inevitably generated controversy. Besides Fukuda and Okamoto, members of a freshman class of 26 female DPJ lawmakers include Kayoko Isogai, a temp worker who was unemployed when she stood for election, and Mieko Tanaka, a former secretary and actress who had a small role in an erotic horror film, Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf. The group has been criticized for being little more than pretty faces unqualified to hold public office. During campaigning, some newspapers dubbed them "Ozawa's princesses" because most were recruited to run for parliament by Ichiro Ozawa...
...there to commemorate the historical day not only of the fall of Berlin Wall but also of the collapse of communism. He didn't even want to be there to be part of it. It was a bad decision on his part not to be there to signify the role of the U.S. in Europe both in the past and the present, and to strengthen democracy in Eastern Europe. It's just a matter of priorities, and in this case it's clear that Berlin wasn't high on his list. K. Rosenauer, MUNICH, GERMANY...