September 2015

The United States is a melting pot of immigrants; she welcomes migrants and brands them Americans within one or two generations of time by an unique but hard-to-describe Americanization Process. Inevitably children get Americanized when they grow up in the United States regardless whether their parents are citizens or permanent residents or just fresh immigrants. This Americanization process works...

The U.S. has been the world’s promoter of democracy, freedom and capitalism since the end of WW II. For the past 70 years, the U.S. has conducted her foreign policies under such a banner (DFC) with varying degree of rigor ranging from modest soft power influence to militant ‘regime change’ strategy. The end of Cold War, the collapse of Soviet Union, could be considered a major victory,...

Summary The recent fluctuations in China’s currency typify the best and worst of a globalized world, where developments in one place can instantly change the political and financial calculations of governments in others. For most of human history, the communities, cultures and economies of the world existed independently of one another, separated as they were by vast distances and difficult terrain....