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If China is truly to transform its image, it will need to overcome many other issues that have prevented the world from warming more to the country.
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All Christian theologies promote almsgiving and charity to poor people and those in need. But liberation theology seeks to understand poverty and change the social and political systems that cause it.
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Over and over, Pope Francis has turned to grass-roots social movements, rather than economists, as his source of hope for change.
VW needs more than just a new CEO
Martin Winterkorn should go, having presided over an emissions-cheating scandal that wiped a third off the German carmaker’s market value in two days. But VW’s over-complex structure and poor corporate governance look like culprits too. It is time for some urgent retooling.
Migration unpicks globalisation myth
Some economists see the unexpected inflow into Europe as an easy win, adding to GDP and countering ageing. But those changes hardly matter. More important is that migration challenges the idea of a global economy. Political borders still set the economic agenda.
The Corbyn-ite maneuver
Jeremy Corbyn wants to leave NATO and abolish the Trident submarine nuclear deterrent. He is close to Hamas and Hezbollah and hostile to Israel -- and even more, to the United States. He dislikes the European Union and thinks NATO is to blame for the Russian advance into Ukraine.
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China is a country that is plagued by its own urban creations, hamstrung by the miracle of its own success.
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Rob Cox: Donald Trump’s bankrupt character
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How Xi Jinping can rebrand China for the West
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Credible VW cleanup calls for external chairman
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