Sep 23 2005
A blog say some engineers in Google are using decision market to project events.
Read a similar article on the New Yorker about such an idea. It talked about HP global/world marketing org. used similar concept.
Poindexter definitely tried the same.
Other resources:
http://us.newsfutures.com/home/home.html
Iowa Electronic Markets
A random article found online.
Sep 23 2005
Just read this article on Washingtonpost.com.
Quotes:
‘Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick bluntly warned China … to address … “a cauldron of anxiety” in the United States … ‘
‘The United States has worked hard to bring China into the international system over the past three decades.’
“Uncertainties about how China will use its power will lead the United States — and others as well — to hedge relations with China.”
‘China should not attempt to “maneuver toward a predominance of power” in Asia by building separate alliances in Southeast Asia and other areas.’
We must be living in La La Land.
China has willingly traded its only viable resource, the laborers, for a ticket to the game of global economy. It has docilely followed the rules, and more (e.g. making concessions on textile quota, etc.) Now US is telling it to subject to full body search.
US government is the last one that can claim the credits for where China is toay. MFN and WTO were always tied to politics. 40 days ago, there was this CNOOC/Unocal debacle. The policy of peaceful engagement was never a vote-getter. Amidst the cacophony, the only question that was loud and clear was, “Is China a Strategic Competitor”?
In terms of regional alliance, US is the pioneering manipulator, and the most daring saoteur of world order in the name of national interests. Zoellick himself proposed for using AFTAs to undermine WTO, and John Bolton is a colleague of his! Do they ever kiss-and-tell what they do at work??