Calculi's Politics Blog

Letter from my old blog:
Clash of civilization (or ignorance of other
civilization?)!

Depending where or in which family someone is born, he is definitely proud of its culture, and of course, civilization related to that culture. Of course, why shouldn’t anyone be? And anything happens which promotes goodness of this culture makes him walk a inch higher over the ground. If looked closely, it is true in such places where nationalism or patriotism hailed high. Where it could be found? In those places where people are struggling to appear in international arena, where that country or community is trying to be more powerful, or where people have longer history than other presently high profile countries. This explains some way present development of nationalism in USA, China and India, among more influential. Continue reading…

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Letter from my old blog:
India-China past and future

For more than 2000 years, two of the world’s ancient cultures shared their ideas, science, knowledge and expertise, providing new dimension for human social development. But it is the very recent history of few decades which shows complete different picture. Both nations, regarded one as largest democracy and one as largest communist nation, have seen each other with skepticism thru’ gunpoint. Democracy (the modern one) and communism, both are western ideologies, which still divides Asia geopolitically. Without taking a side of particular nation – more precisely particular ideology – I’d like to present some articles I’ve found on Internet, which summarizes the conflict between India and China, a more product of misunderstanding and mistaken indian policies than true clash between ideologies. Continue reading…

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World Recession Map

At Moody’s website, popularly called Economy.com, the global recession is stated in a detailed interactive map. More than a year has passed from the economic shock of 2008, and most part of the world seems to be recovering. As usual, Asia-Pacific block should not fear about the recovery and it is expanding, perhaps the expansion is not as quick as during those glory days. But clearly it can be seen how the international map of economy has changed ever since.

Global recession status

Honestly I’m not very much impressed by the quality of the plot. It gives you information just qualitatively, not with acutal data. I guess the main aim of this map was to give overall picture of the health of world economy. And at the moment, it doesn’t seem that bad.

source: Global Recession Map

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