From the “Reflections of a Zen Buddhist: Epigram from the Ming Dynasty”, we learn that if a man, with a jar of wine beside him, takes the heavens as a tent and the earth as a mat, he is in harmony with life-giving forces.
Dynastic inebriatedness was ineluctably linked with governmental high-handedness in old
accommodates eight other political formations, is being nurtured.
Revolutionary romanticism has receded and has been replaced by the realities of a globalising world.
Like a phoenix,
a World Expo in 2010. Its forays into space are proceeding well.
Richard Falk wrote that ” this nightmare is better reflected in modern-day
Alexander Solzhenitsyn had expressed similar pessimism in 1976, during his lecture at
The new dynamics dictate that participation in contemporary international relations call for states to promote social, economic and cultural ties, rather than precluding themselves from this progressive movement through war-mongering, strident posturing, belligerency and hard attitudes. Also, policies geared towards the pursuit of antiquated rivalries and narrow interests, can no longer succeed.
Fundamental changes in states that have rejected imposition of systems of government based on permissive democracy, cannot be achieved, through pressure and goading with long political whip-lashes. I have argued elsewhere that the “micro-wave option” is more persuasive.
In 1884-5, European states met in
In 2006,
In 2007, the EU invited African leaders to
This belated Euro-American foray into Africa, is the fault of the Euro-American press, which has insisted that it would never report anything positive about