After Iraq, U.S. to refocus on Asia

China is not, in fact, 10 feet tall  It’s challenge to U.S. manufacturing has peaked, and its competitive advantage is in decline.

By Gerald F. Seib | The Wall Street Journal | 25 October 2011

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Free market blues

Bluescope Steel mugged by Chinese reality

“If China can peg its currency to a declining US dollar, persisting in ideologically driven free-market purism is nothing but grand folly.”

By Gary Scarrabelotti*

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America is feared again

Obama’s deployment of America’s now highly tuned military forces has just wiped mockery and derision off the faces of both friend and foe.

By Gary Scarrabelotti*

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“Where’s Kiev?”

A cautionary tale

“… nothing threatens Ukraine’s capacity to survive as an independent nation alongside Russia quite so much as pretending – contrary to geographical and cultural realities – that the country faces west.”

By Gary Scarrabelotti*

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