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PHOTO
ESSAY
Globe-Trotting
Household Goods
The
trade tensions between the United States and China do not exist
solely in the political arena. The economic relationship between the
two superpowers manifests itself in a massive system, built over
decades through the decisions of governments, businesses, consumers,
and workers.
Russian-Danish
photographer Mari
Bastashevski set out to capture this system over a
two-year journey that took her to the Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka, a
Chinese-made container ship crossing the Pacific Ocean, a bottling
plant in Hong Kong, a customs house in Piraeus, Greece, and
elsewhere. Bastashevski’s project, she writes, “navigates through the
complex, politically ambiguous, and often violent culture of
logistics by which our common household products reach us.”
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PODCAST
The
Billionaires of India
In
this episode of Asia
Inside Out, Anubhav
Gupta, assistant director of the Asia Society
Policy Institute, talks to James Crabtree, author
of The
Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age.
The conversation covers how India’s super-rich have grown in
number over the past two decades, how they have altered their
country's perception in the eyes of the world, and the specter of
corruption that looms over India's economic future.
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WEBCAST
Watch
Live: Hank Paulson on the Looming 'Economic Iron Curtain'
Hank Paulson, former U.S. secretary of the treasury, and founder
of the Paulson Institute, once a U.S.-China optimist,
now warns of “a long winter” in relations between the two
countries. Watch Paulson expand on this premise at 5:30 p.m. New
York time today in a live webcast. Paulson will address the growing
distrust and hostility between the two countries and the real
danger posed to the global economy.
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