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America’s Dangerously Out-of-Date View of China

America’s Dangerously Out-of-Date View of China

June 27, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

America’s sluggish insistence that China remains a security threat as opposed to a powerful economic reality is leading to lost opportunities. Not quite four decades after Nixon visited Mao, the U.S. is still reluctant to see an emergent China for…

Jobs Crisis: Forget Ideology. Get People Working

Jobs Crisis: Forget Ideology. Get People Working

June 3, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Friday’s calamitous jobs report, prefigured by private-sector numbers earlier in the week, brings the Obama administration and Congress to a truth-or-consequences moment. The president has been groping for many months, in perfectly evident frustration, for credible job-creation policies. The Republican-controlled Congress…

India’s Multibillion-Dollar Message to America

India’s Multibillion-Dollar Message to America

June 1, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

India’s recent rejection of bids from two American jet manufacturers for the biggest defense contract in Indian history made minor news in the U.S. The rest of the world paid closer attention because that decision shot down a dozen years…

The Deficit: Congress Fiddles as America Loses Ground

The Deficit: Congress Fiddles as America Loses Ground

March 9, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The recent news from Germany is encouraging for Europe—and sobering for the U.S. Beating all forecasts, unemployment has plunged to its lowest level in nearly 20 years. Business and consumer confidence is hitting records. It is getting hard to flinch…

`Manifest Duplicity'

`Manifest Duplicity’

August 7, 2000 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Nation.

BLOWBACK: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. By Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan. 268 pp. $26. Some Sundays back, the New York Times fronted a story from its Paris correspondent, Suzanne Daley, about the fear and loathing Americans induce among Europeans…

Japan: The enigma of American power

Japan: The enigma of American power

January 7, 1999 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Washington Quarterly

“The Japanese can neither love the Americans nor endure being loved by them.” —Ambassador Sir Oliver Morland to the British Foreign Office, 1963(1) The air station at Kadena is not merely the largest of the 39 U.S. military bases in…

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