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- China tangled up in industrial espionage
Hot-button issues under the headline "Chinese government engages in industrial espionage to rip off US companies" are set to rattle relations in the run-up to the US presidential election after alleged attempts by a state-run group to grab a secret of chemical giant DuPont. The murky case has its origins in the explosive growth in China of the pigment that makes things "whiter than white". - Peter Lee (Feb 10, '12)
- THE ROVING EYE : The return of the Keyboard Warriors
For right-wing America, Iran in 2012 is the new Iraq circa 2002. Whatever their route - real men go to Tehran via Damascus, or real men go to Tehran non-stop - the Keyboard Warriors now populating the media with their fallacies and imperial disdain don't just want neo-conservative revolt: they want a war, and they want it now. - Pepe Escobar (Feb 10, '12)
- Okinawans see duplicity in US withdrawal
The United States has agreed to shift 4,700 marines from Okinawa to Guam without insisting on the construction of a fiercely opposed airbase on Okinawa. However, despite the US's strategic realignment in the Asia-Pacific and planned defense cuts, islanders know Washington is unwilling to completely scrap the airbase plan. - Kosuke Takahashi (Feb 10, '12)
- 9/11 REVISITED : Was Saudi Arabia involved?
In one of the "most troubling aspects" of the circumstances surrounding the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency's Bin Laden unit did not tell anyone that "muscle" hijackers, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, were in the country. Maybe Saudi Arabia has an explanation. - Paul Church (Feb 10, '12)
- North Korean ordeal haunts US activist
Korean-American activist Robert Park, held by North Korea for weeks in 2010 after smuggling himself in on a religious mission, is as furious at his treatment by Seoul's media as he is with his captors. Denying media reports of sexual abuse, Park is not revealing exactly what provoked a "false confession". However, he plans to sue Pyongyang in the US courts over "torture". - Donald Kirk (Feb 10, '12)
- Abandoned on the Thai border
As international aid organizations working in refugee camps in Thailand weigh up whether to cross into Myanmar to work directly with the reforming government, funding for programs on the still volatile border is under threat. Their premature departure will likely worsen conditions for more than 140,000 Thailand-based refugees. - Roberto Tofani (Feb 10, '12)
- BOOK REVIEW : Decoding Obama's Iran policy
An intricate study of how President Barack Obama's Iran policy evolved, this book relates how campaign pledges to reach out crumbled under the weight of Israeli and Saudi pressure, and from disillusionment following Iran's 2009 election crackdown. The book reveals top Israeli officials' doubts that a nuclear strike would ever be launched, with Israel's aggressive stance based on maintaining its Palestinian territories and aura of invincibility. - Brian M Downing (Feb 10, '12)
- SPEAKING FREELY : Nepal: law and order denied
Nepal witnessed very grave human rights violations during a decade of conflict, and even after five years of peacemaking no attention has been paid to innocent victims and their families. Cheap political compromises that block the route to justice and a culture of impunity must give way to truth and reparation to end a vicious cycle of lawlessness. - Gyan Basnet (Feb 10, '12)
- CHAN AKYA : Debt, cash and bonfires
As a deal on Greek's debt is reached - or perhaps not - debt frenzy has caught on in Europe, with a billion in bail-out money available for every outstretched hand. No one wants to listen to the Germans speaking sense, but the Hungarians, demonstrating the likely consequences, have found a new way to keep warm.
- China-Canada boost ties
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose country runs a huge trade deficit with China, has signed a foreign investment agreement in Beijing that may encourage smaller Canadian firms to set up shop in China. A US$1 billion fund will facilitate Chinese investment in Canadian resource companies. - Robert M Cutler
- IT WORLD : Microsoft in burnish mode
Software giant Microsoft is preparing to present a burnished version of its operating system, with changes for the forthcoming Windows 8 OS representing the largest overhaul of the platform since Windows 95. Martin J Young surveys the week's developments in computing, science, gaming and gizmos.
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