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Grassroots organizations and informal networks of private citizens are playing a vital role in getting supplies to rescue workers and survivors of devastating earthquakes in China. The government, in a notable shift,the government appears content to let them do so. My comment: It is democracy in action with citizens' initiative plus incentive of ethnic cooperation in distress to be helped by ethnic Chinese. Moreover,kind-hearted folks from other nations have made donations in money,kind and services in China. Such global cooperative and collaborative efforts are admirable and deserves to be noted for such selfless cause in human history.
Page A19: "Climate Change: Such is a global deal. For that to happen, the United States has to lead to ensure that we have an effective agreement in which China and India take part." That is the article by the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Here we can easily detect the need of cooperation and collaboration of USA/China in the 21st century.
Page A4:US experts bemoan nation's loss of stature in the world of science. Nina Fedoroff,a plant modecular biologist said that position in science is being challenged by others, specifically China, which is raising its global profile. They are educating ten times as many students as we are and the other generation of scientists in other countries. I
My comments: Economics is a multi-dimensional social science and is ever-changing in the world. English is an international language but Chinese is spoken by most folks in the world. Globalization needs specialists with knowledge of economics plus bi-lingual ability to handle scientific information more efficiently in English and Chinese languages. Such view was published by Guangdong/Hongkong Information Daily in February 23,1990. I was invited to be a chief compiler for a Directory of Scientific Institutions for the benefits of American scientists. It was published by Hoover Institution of Stanford University in 1971. My colleague at RAND, Richard Moorsteen published "Remaking China Policy" at Harvard University Press in 1971. Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao. May 29, 2008
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I not sure that I see the international language as a battle between Chinese and English. We can't have two international languages, not forgetting Spanish, French and Swahili!
I would recommend a look at Esperanto.
This language has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008 by eight British MP's
You can see more detail on http://www.esperanto.net
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