16 June 2006 Japan v. Whales: 1-0 By Gwynne Dyer “The moratorium [on whaling], which was clearly intended as a temporary measure, is no longer necessary,” says the St. Kitt’s Declaration, which passed by just one vote at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission on Sunday. It doesn’t mean that the world will …
13 June 2006 Why China Is So Reasonable By Gwynne Dyer Last month, China’s trade surplus was $13 billion. That’s over $150 billion a year. So why does China still keep its head down and go along with almost everything that the “international community” (also known as “the West”) proposes? You can even bomb the …
2 December 2005 Japan, China and”Congagement” By Gwynne Dyer If I were a Chinese strategic analyst of a moderately paranoid disposition — and all strategic analysts are paranoid by nature — I would be twitching uncontrollably by now. Call it professional deformation, if you like, but I would have the overwhelming feeling that China is …
29 August 2005 The Vanishing Babies By Gwynne Dyer The Japanese have known it was coming for years, but it still arrived sooner than anyone expected. The Japanese population has gone into absolute decline, and there will be at least 60,000 fewer Japanese at the end of this year than there were last January. In …
20 May 2005 Nuclear Power: Rising from the Grave? By Gwynne Dyer The debate is getting as heated as the planet, but it has moved on. Outside the United States, where the climate-change denial industry still trots out its few tame scientists to question the reality of global warming, it is now about the best …
22 April 2005 Nationalism: Not Nearly Dead Enough By Gwynne Dyer The Chinese government has now ordered the public to cool it — “Do not take part in protest activities that have not been approved,” said Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing on 19 April — but we all know that the violent anti-Japanese protests that swept …
18 October 2004 Nuclear Is Back (A Bit) By Gwynne Dyer “The worst possible nuclear disasters are not as bad as the worst possible climate change disasters,” declared the Centre for Alternative Technology in Britain recently, urging “a modest revival of nuclear energy…to sell the idea to the sceptics.” And while Europeans and North Americans …
29 April 2004 Disappearing Babies By Gwynne Dyer The one-child policy in China is coming to an end. It has a few years left to run yet in most of the country, but Shanghai’s city government announced in mid-April that divorced people who remarry can have a child together even if they each have a …
18 June 2003 Whales and Morality By Gwynne Dyer “At some point we are confident we will overturn the (whaling) moratorium. It is becoming a reality,” said Joji Morishita, a member of Japan`s huge delegation to the annual morality play that the International Whaling Commission`s meetings have become. But it wasn`t a reality yet at …
3 March 2003 The Short-Lived American Empire By Gwynne Dyer Just over two thousand years ago, when the Roman republic turned itself into an empire and extended the ‘pax romana’ over most of the known world — western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, plus the great reservoir of barbarian tribes in eastern Europe …