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MAY 1, 2008
Germany’s Share of Foreign-Student Market Begins to Stagnate
The Chronicle of Higher Education
“Only 43 percent of the foreign students surveyed indicated that Germany was their first choice on the list of countries where they would have preferred to study,” the report says. “German students aren’t hostile to foreigners — but they don’t feel the need to approach foreigners and offer help,” one of the researchers who conducted the study told Agence France-Presse.
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MAY 1, 2008
The real US deficit with China – knowledge
The Christian Science Monitor
Americans are out of touch with today's China. It's a knowledge deficit that carries more weight in the long-term bilateral relationships between China and the United States than the ballooning US trade deficit with China. And as China makes a comeback on the world stage, it's one that the US should address.
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MAY 1, 2008
The Ugly Chinese
Post Global
What does this all mean for China? To me, it means the end of an era of China's "soft power." For the past decade, China's "soft power" has helped fuel Beijing's rise by attempting to assuage fears of an expansionist China...But now across the globe China is dropping in the polls. And it's not due to lack of contact with the Chinese, people who are polled say, it's because we're getting to know them better.
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APR 30, 2008
The world doesn’t want Leninism with its shopping malls
The Daily Star (Lebanon)
So why is all of this - Tibet on the one hand and American soft power on the other - so significant? It's simple. The century ahead will not be a struggle between China and the United States for global leadership. This is not a balance-of-power gladiatorial contest. There will, however, be a battle of ideas.
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APR 29, 2008
Long road to the Beijing games
Al Jazeera English
The Olympics were seen as a stage to introduce China to the international community, bring it closer to the rest of the world — a culmination of it’s liberalisation since the early 1980s. Instead, the past few weeks have shown the Olympics has the potential for the opposite effect. The global slap the Chinese have felt has stirred up fierce nationalism - and many here are wondering why the approval of the international community should even matter.
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APR 29, 2008
Survey Shows Majority of Arabs Hold Negative Views of United States
Voice of America
The survey polled 4000 respondents living in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. Eighty percent said their opinions were shaped by the policies of the U.S. government, not by American values or culture. Eighty-three percent of respondents identified the Arab-Israeli conflict as a key issue and 55 percent said they believe that despite U.S. efforts to broker a compromise between the two sides before the end of this year, a lasting peace is unlikely.
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APR 21, 2008
Changing foreign policy tracks
The Mint
Dealing with democracies that are accountable to citizens is very different from doing so in dictatorships and oligarchies. In India’s case it’s doubly so as people in neighbouring countries have been fed on a diet of anti-India rhetoric. This requires careful handling. At one level, this requires that Track 2 diplomacy be taken more seriously than it is now...In the long run, it’s crucial that India mobilizes opinion in these countries using this tool.
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APR 16, 2008
US sinks even lower in Arab world’s esteem - poll
The Daily Star (Lebanon)
The survey found that while views on some issues varied among the six countries, cynicism about U.S. motivations and policies was fairly consistent. Eighty percent said their views of the U.S. are formed more by U.S. "policies" than by U.S. "values" -- up from 70 percent who took that position in 2006.
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APR 13, 2008
What a billion Muslims think?
The News International
When the Gallup pollsters asked Muslims around the world what the West could do to improve relations with the Muslim world, the most frequent responses were for the West to demonstrate more respect for Islam and to regard Muslims as equals, not as inferior. The Western contempt for Islam, especially the ignorance of Americans, is not something that is imagined by us. The poll findings speak for themselves.
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APR 11, 2008
World watches presidential contest
Daily Camera
With seven months left before November, Americans may already be growing weary of this year's presidential contest. But people in Africa, Asia, Europe and the rest of the world are avidly following the ups and downs of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, international experts say.
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