All Posts Tagged With: "Philippines"
A War to End All Banditry
Even before the United States wound down its military operations in Afghanistan, it began looking for targets elsewhere. But policymakers must remember that Washington’s primary interest is thwarting transnational terrorists who target Americans, not combating local criminals and insurgents around the globe. After just three months, the Taliban was overthrown, the al Qaeda network was [...]
1May2002 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs Are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia by Murray Weidenbaum and Samuel Hughes
Free Press • 1996 • 272 pages • $24.00 Dr. Peterson is this month’s guest editor. A sharp turn in human events since the end of the Cold War is the emergence of a powerful new global economic force, one without fanfare, and in an unexpected place: Southeast Asia. The force is the Bamboo Network. [...]
1Mar1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued-
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