ttp://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-19/making-china-s-new-infrastructure-bank-work ALL NEW ROADS LEAD TO CHINA. PHOTOGRAPHER: STR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES China's Place in the New World Economic Order 8 MAR 19, 2015 6:22 PM EDT By The Editors
・・・Now that the U.K. and several other European countries have joined the bank, holdouts such as Australia and South Korea are almost certain to jump in. ・・・ Nevertheless, the region has huge infrastructure needs -- up to $800 billion worth every year, according to a much-cited study from the Asian Development Bank. American opposition to any new source of financing looks churlish and hypocritical.
If China wanted to hand out dodgy loans to buy loyalty, it could easily continue to do so on a bilateral basis. But that practice has largely backfired; Beijing faces souring debts from Myanmar to Sri Lanka to Ukraine. The whole point of working through a multilateral organization is for China to gain global legitimacy for its largess.
Given that China is expected to contribute almost 50 percent of the new bank's funds, it will no doubt expect to carry a prevailing influence. But European members will very quickly face pressure at home to pull out if the bank backs controversial projects against their wishes.
＊結局こういうことが起こるのはWBやADBをアメリカが軽視しすぎた為であって・・ American officials should be pushing harder, for example, to carry out financial reforms that would bolster the Asian Development Bank's ability to lend. If the U.S. really doesn’t want other nations following China’s lead, it will have to offer a stronger alternative.
クリントン基金への、外国政府、関係者からの献金問題、WSJが追加情報を報道 ttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/20/clinton-foundation-donors-while-hillary-was-secretary-state-had-ties-to-foreign/ Clinton Foundation donors while Hillary was Secretary of State had ties to foreign governments, report says Published March 20, 2015
The Clinton Foundation raised millions of dollars from individuals with ties to foreign governments and state-owned companies while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, according to a published report. The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday that more than a dozen such individuals, along with their foundations and companies, gave between $34 million and $68 million in the years after Clinton became America's top diplomat in 2009. ttp://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-charity-tapped-foreign-friends-1426818602
献金者の中には・・・ The Journal reports that the donors include Victor Pinchuk, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament whose foundation gave $8.6 million to the Clinton Foundation between 2009 and 2013. Another donor is Prince Turki al-Faisal, a member of the Saudi royal family and a former ambassador to the U.S. who gave an undisclosed amount in 2013 and 2014. Other donors include Venezuelan media mogul Gustavo Cisneros, who owns one of that country's largest television stations. He gave between $500,000 and $1 million, at various times, including during Clinton's State Department tenure. Another donor, a London-based businessman with ties to Bahrain's state-owned aluminum company, was acquitted on bribery charges last year. His foundation donated between $1 million and $5 million to the foundation.
サウジアラビアが主宰してメッカ・・非イスラム教徒は立ち入れない・・で 対IS戦略を話し合う国際会議が開催され、各国政府がサウジアラビアに習って、 シャリーアを導入すべきだということになった。 MECCA, Saudi Arabia -- To combat extremist ideologies, Islamic scholars and researchers meeting in Mecca last month urged Muslim governments to tackle poverty, overhaul school curriculums -- and get back to religion. In particular, they counseled strict, Muslim religious observance of the kind practiced in Saudi Arabia. “Apply Islamic Shariah in all life’s affairs,” they recommended, referring to Islamic law, which they said had the capacity to “accomplish justice, maintain dignity, uphold rights and meet the aspirations of the people.”・・・ www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/world/middleeast/islamic-scholars-promote-sharia-as-an-alternative-to-extremism.html
ttp://dailycaller.com/2015/03/20/leaked-details-may-describe-a-near-final-iran-deal/ Leaked Details May Describe A Near-Final Iran Deal 8:37 AM 03/20/2015 イランとの核開発抑制交渉で、最終案に近いというドラフトがリークしているのだが・・
専門家はイランに有利な条件という・・ The Associated Press reported Thursday that the deal being discussed in Lausanne, Switzerland currently involves a restriction of Iran’s civilian nuclear energy program to 6,000 centrifuges, for at least a decade. Iran currently uses 10,000 of the devices. The nuclear program would be monitored by outside inspectors. In exchange, the draft agreement obtained by the AP includes immediate relief from existing American economic sanctions linked to the country’s nuclear program. Other sanctions, like those linked to Iran’s terror sponsorship and human rights record, would remain in place.
“It’s a good deal for the Iranians,” said Alex Vatanka, a scholar at the Middle East Institute, in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation. “The number of centrifuges and enrichment volume are all things they’ve agreed to in the past.” Matthew McInnis, an expert at the American Enterprise Institute, agreed. Looking at each team’s statements this week, he observed that “the Iranian side’s very excited about what’s happening, whereas the U.S. and E.U. are a bit more hesitant.” In light of recent American attempts to block an agreement, he suggested, “there’s additional eagerness, even anxiousness, on Iran’s part to get things going before Congress or other actors can create more obstacles.”(ry
ttp://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/03/17/u-s-iran-deal-could-sink-russia/ PETROSTATE PROBLEMS U.S.-Iran Deal Could Sink Russia
“In case the international sanctions against Iran are lifted, one million barrels a day will be added to the country’s crude-oil production and exports in several months,” [Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh] was quoted as saying by his ministry’s news agency Shana.
ネタニヤフ、パレスチナ国家を認める、と軌道修正。 Netanyahu backs off from pre-election stance ruling out Palestinian state・・・ The embarrassing retreat came as the White House hinted that the US could stop protecting Israel at the UN and international institutions if it was not committed to a two-state solution -- a key long-term policy in Washington. Officials have also suggested that the US might back a UN resolution recognising a Palestinian state.・・・ www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/19/binyamin-netanyahu-israel-palestine-two-state-solution
19世紀ロシアは欧米化に居心地の悪さを感じたが、ロシア語を持っていたのに対し、 現在のインドは、居心地が悪いだけでなく、（英語以外の）インド共通語を持っていない、と。 ・・・The Russian critic Vissarion Belinsky felt in the 19th century that the slavish imitation of European culture had created “a sort of duality in Russian life, consequently a lack of moral unity.” The Indian situation is worse; the Russians at least had Russian.・・・ www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/how-english-ruined-indian-literature.html
ttp://www.wsj.com/articles/both-parties-are-nervous-about-2016-1426802959 Both Parties Are Nervous About 2016 Hillary is the only thing holding Democrats together, and Bushes always break the Republican Party. By PEGGY NOONAN March 19, 2015 6:09 p.m. ET
Without Hillary the party will probably lurch left. And if it lurches left it’ll probably lose the general election. Democrats will break up into left-progressives, way-left-progressives, populists of different stripe, older moderates and centrists.
There’s a balancing angst among many Republicans. It is connected to the fact that Jeb Bush is broadly considered a front-runner, if not the front-runner. And at the end of the day Bushes always break the party. Mr. Bush gambled that the wars would be victorious, that the party that loved him would march to the banner of an immigration agenda that did not take their legitimate anxieties into account. He left a party more broken, less a whole.
ttp://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/joe-biden-media-116240.html?hp=t2_r#.VQxbqo6sWSp The Case for Covering Biden He’s closer to being president than Hillary is. By JACK SHAFER March 19, 2015 民主党次期大統領候補としてのバイデン By JACK SHAFER ポリティコ
He’s still closer to becoming our next president than Hillary Clinton is should death, incapacity or some weird political fate claim Barack Obama. He’s also closer to becoming the next Democratic Party presidential candidate than anybody else should something happen to Clinton (even if all it is is a change of heart about whether she wants to go through the grueling circus that her campaign will most assuredly be).
ttp://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/democratic-disarray_892766.html Democratic Disarray No love lost between Obama and his party on Capitol Hill. MAR 30, 2015, VOL. 20, NO. 28 ? BY FRED BARNES
On Capitol Hill, support by Democrats for the president’s agenda is eroding. His request for authorization to use military force against ISIS terrorists is widely opposed by Democrats. His appeal for “fast track” authority to facilitate passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade treaty, has attracted little support. Neither bill is likely to win congressional approval.
ttp://www.economist.com/news/americas/21646865-it-would-be-difficult-feat-some-are-trying-impeaching-dilma-rousseff Mass protest in Brazil The endangered Dilma Rousseff Impeachment would be a difficult feat, but some are pushing for it Mar 19th 2015 先週のブラジル史上最大級の抗議デモは大統領の弾劾を要求 大統領弾劾は、容易いことでは無いが、強力にそれを目指す勢力も エコノミスト
A MORIBUND economy. A multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal at Petrobas (the state-controlled oil giant). The critical need to find savings equal to 1.8% of GDP this year to stave off a credit-ratings downgrade. If all that were not enough for Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s president, to worry about, March 15th brought the country's largest mass demonstrations since the diretas ja (“elections now”) movement that helped end military dictatorship in 1985. Police reckon 2.2m people took to the streets to protest against the president and her Workers’ Party (PT). ブラジル国内が国営石油企業のPetrobasの大規模汚職事件や建設会社と政治家の腐敗した 関係の暴露で揺れ動く中、先週の大規模抗議行動は1985以来の歴史的な大きさになり参加 者は二百二十万人
The PMDB and PSDB together lack the supermajority in Congress needed to impeach Ms Rousseff. But if the economy continues to founder and more Brazilians begin voicing their discontent on the streets, they could recruit the two dozen smaller parties?and possibly the PT itself, parts of which are already queasy about Ms Rousseff’s new-found zeal for the entitlement cuts and tax rises that are anathema to its traditional working-class base. Such an outcome remains highly unlikely. But it is not inconceivable. 大統領弾劾を求める声が上がっているものの、野党勢力は議会で大統領弾劾を決議できる だけの勢力がない。しかしブラジル経済が下降を続け、有権者の不満が高まることになれ ば少数政党や与党内部からでさえ不満の声が高まるかもしれない。弾劾の可能性は低いが それが有り得ないとは言えない
ttps://en.greatfire.org/blog/2015/mar/collateral-freedom-and-not-so-great-firewall In summary: On February 26, we released an Android app that uses collateral freedom so that anybody in China (or in any country that practices online censorship) can access any website regardless of whether or not it is blocked. We have made our approach open source. Reporters Without Borders announced today that they have used our strategy to unblock a further nine websites. We’ve unblocked ten websites and released four difficult-to-block apps using collateral freedom since November, 2013. これ(アンドロイドなどのアプリケーション)で中国からアクセスできるようになるサイト Unblocked Sites A list of all unblocked sites and apps appears below. All of these websites are accessible in China and in other countries that have great firewalls:
Google BBC Chinese Boxun(博訊) China Digital Times (CDT) Supervision by the People / 人民?督网 Pao Pao Lantern Program Think / ?程随想的博客 ・・・・ しかし、当然というか必然というか、このアプリケーション配布サイトは中国からの猛烈 な攻撃にあって Thu, Mar 19, 2015 We are under attack Submitted by charlie on Thu, Mar 19, 2015 We are under attack and we need help.(ry
