by Sam Roggeveen
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9 February 2010 4:07PM
- A big welcome to Business Spectator readers who have discovered us after reading Mark Thirlwell's piece on sovereign risk, which appeared earlier on The Interpreter.
- US carbon dependency projected to be only slightly lower in 2034 than it is today.
- Ten myths about Russia's demography. It's not as bad as you think.
- Bridging the Strait: despite irritants such as the arms sales issue, the China-Taiwan relationship continues to grow closer.
- NY Times columnist Ross Douthat says that '(f)or rogue states, the bomb is an obvious way to offset America's enormous conventional military advantage — and this will hold true no matter how low our nuclear stockpiles go.' True, but a little incongruous in an article arguing against nuclear abolition. Doesn't this imply that the US could afford to go without nukes?
- Some rough news for the International Criminal Court's prosecutor: the Court's Pre-Trial Chamber says there wasn't 'sufficient evidence' that the first Sudanese militia leader to be brought before the court, Bahar Idriss Abu Garda, was 'criminally responsible either as a direct or as an indirect co-perpetrator'.
- Photo tour of a Soviet Strategic Missile Forces museum in the Ukraine.
- Green police: Audi's Super Bowl commercial.
