“FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW”: OCTOBER 2008 ISSUE

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The OCTOBER Issue of FEER

“Another Empire Bites the Dust.”

Far Eastern Economic Review (feer.email@dowjones.com)

feer.email@dowjones.com

Far Eastern Economic Review

The October Issue of FEER

Mon 10/06/08

Dear Reader,

Welcome to the October issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review.

“Another Empire Bites the Dust.”

This month you can enjoy free access to David Roche’s article, “Another Empire Bites the Dust.” Please note that all the Review Subscribers can access all articles for free. If you don’t already subscribe to the magazine, please take this opportunity and join Asia’s opinion leaders today by logging onto https://www.feer.com/subscription/subscribe.

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Christine Brendle
Managing Director

Essays

Economics:
Time to Dump The Dollar Standard
Richard Duncan, a managing director at Blackhorse Asset Management, explains why the global experiment with fiat money has crashed, and how Asia can emerge stronger.
[ read this article ]

Geopolitics:
Another Empire Bites the Dust
David Roche, president of Independent Strategy, lays out how the collapse of American prestige in the world will lead to a more dangerous and less profitable era for investors.
[ read this article ]

Investment:
Can China Attract The World’s Capital?
Ken DeWoskin, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan and senior adviser with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, expects capital to flood to China following Wall Street’s demise. But what investment environment to expect?
[ read this article ]

Japan:
Japan’s Lessons for Managing the Crisis
Nicholas Benes, president of JTP Corporation, an investment bank in Tokyo, shows how Japan’s failure to reform its financial sector in the 1990s is still hobbling the economy.
[ read this article ]

China Business:
The China Dream Revisited
Joe Studwell, journalist and author of several books on Asia, rereads his book The China Dream and finds that while some of his predictions were wrong, others proved true.
[ read this article ]

Cambodia:
The Battle for Boeung Kak Lake
Ron Gluckman, a Phnom Penh-based writer, reports from Cambodia where there has been a marked increase in land grabs from the poor in the name of development.
[ read this article ]

Public Health:
Of Milk, Health and Trade Security
David Bell, of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, says the recent tainted milk scandal in China shows how public health and trade security are intricately linked.
[ read this article ]

Japan:
Is Aso the LDP’s Last Ditch Leader?
Tobias Harris, author of the Observing Japan blog, looks at Taro Aso and the daunting challenges facing him.
[ read this article ]

Japan:
Aso Leads LDP’s Struggle for Survival
Ko Mishima, assistant professor at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, analyzes the Liberal Democratic Party’s tentative future.
[ read this article ]

Vietnam:
Vietnam in Denial Over Economic Woes
Long Le, a professor at the University of Houston, analyzes Vietnam’s economic overheating and places the blame on the government’s failure to take preemptive action.
[ read this article ]

Environment:
Indonesia Finds Green Gold in Trees
Oakley Brooks, a free-lance writer based in Indonesia, details a project in Aceh that pays locals for not cutting down trees as part of a new carbon-credit trading scheme.
[ read this article ]

Trade and Logistics
Ominous Signs From Dry Bulk
Charles de Trenck, owner of Transport Trackers, a Hong Kong-based consultancy service for investors, parses what falling shipping rates tell us about the global economy.
[ read this article ]

REVIEWS
The Penguin History of Modern China: the Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850-2008
By Jonathan Fenby
Reviewed by Pamela Crossley
[ read this review ]

Termites In the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade
By Jagdish Bhagwati
Reviewed by Greg Rushford
[ read this review ]

After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan
By James F. Dobbins
Reviewed by Ian Chesley
[ read this review ]

Falun Gong and the Future of China
By David Ownby
Reviewed by Jonathan Mirsky
[ read this review ]

China in Africa: Partner, Competitor or Hegemon?
By Chris Alden

China’s New Role in Africa and the South
Edited by Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji

Africa in China’s Global Strategy
Edited by Marcel Kitissou

African Perspectives on China in Africa
Edited by Firoze Manji and Stephen Marks

China, Africa and South Africa
By Garth le Pere and Garth Shelton

Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier
By Harry G. Broadman
Reviewed by Jeremy Goldkorn
[read this review ]

Economists With Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968
By Bradley R. Simpson
Reviewed by Mary Kissel
[ read this review ]

When Asia Was the World
by Stewart Gordon
Reviewed by Paul Mozur
[read this review ]

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
By Leslie T. Chang
Reviewed by Janis Foo
[ read this review ]

Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China’s 100 Questions
Edited by Anne-Marie Blondeau and Katia Buffetrille
Reviewed by Tsering Namgyal
[ read this review ]

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
By Paul Theroux
Reviewed by Samanth Subramanian
[ read this review ]

Jaunt Through Asia
Salil Tripathi, a former correspondent for the REVIEW, interviews Nina Paley about her retelling of the Ramayana and why it is too controversial for some Indians.
[ read this article ]

The OCTOBER Issue of FEER‏

Far Eastern Economic Review (feer.email@dowjones.com)

feer.email@dowjones.com

Far Eastern Economic Review

The October Issue of FEER

“Another Empire Bites the Dust.”

Mon 10/06/08