Mar 14 Watch Examining U.S. Concerns on Trade, Security as China Welcomes New President Examining U.S. Concerns on Trade, Security as China Welcomes New President… Continue watching
Mar 14 U.N. Country Rankings Show Fastest Progress in Developing Nations By Larisa Epatko An annual assessment of 187 countries released Thursday shows the economies of countries such as Brazil and China continuing to grow, but also improvements in areas such as education and income in more than a dozen developing nations. Continue reading
Mar 14 Top Five and Bottom Five Countries in U.N. Ratings By Larisa Epatko As in the U.N. Development Program's last review in 2011, Norway reigns supreme and the United States made the top five, while the African nations of Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo came in last. Continue reading
Mar 14 Asia's Mojo Keeps on Working Shoppers in the Paragon mall in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images. No matter how many Washington think tank conferences one covers, all their accumulated wisdom is no substitute for going to the countries they are talking about. Continue reading
Mar 13 Viva Pope Francis: The First South American Pope By Larisa Epatko It took cardinals only two days to elect the new leader of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics on Wednesday afternoon: Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first pope from South America. He took the name Pope Francis. Continue reading
Mar 13 China Uses Copycat Architecture to Modernize, Define and Celebrate Itself By Molly Finnegan While copying architectural styles is as old as architecture itself, China has done it on an unprecedented scale and speed. Continue reading
Mar 13 Watch Copycat Architecture Rises in China's Building Boom Copycat Architecture Rises in China's Building Boom… Continue watching
Mar 13 Seven Cardinal Contenders for Pope By Larisa Epatko As the first three rounds of voting Tuesday and Wednesday failed to produce a pope, the 115-member conclave will keep trying Wednesday afternoon with renewed hopes of reaching consensus. There's no clear frontrunner, but out of the cardinals who are… Continue reading
Mar 12 Papal Succession in the Catholic Church Pope Benedict XVI at his last meeting with cardinals at the Vatican on Feb. 28. Photo via Osservatore Romano/Reuters. By Robert McMahon, editor for the Council on Foreign Relations Introduction The February 2013 resignation of Pope Benedict XVI… Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch Japanese Town Hit Hard by Natural and Nuclear Disaster Imagines Renewable Future Renewable Energy Could be the Answer for Hard-Hit Japanese Town… Continue watching