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China’s new aircraft carrier / Kinas nya hangarfartyg

August 11, 2011

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China’s new aircraft carrier Last Wednesday [10 August] China showed that it is on the way to becoming an international great power. Its new aircraft carrier went to sea. In 1998 China brought an old Russian aircraft carrier that has now been completely upgraded. There are signs that it may be better equipped than American […]

The USA is living beyond its means

August 9, 2011

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(Swedish version in separate blog) One question that has dominated the news in recent weeks is the USA’s debt crisis and I will begin there. The newspapers around Sweden are discussing this issue and one example is an editorial from Dagens Nyheter [a broadsheet] titled, “When craziness reigns”. When we celebrated the new millennium in […]

USA lever över sina tillgångar

August 7, 2011

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(English will come) Semestern är slut och nu är det dags att komma tillbaka till min blogg. Det fanns tillfällen under ledigheten där en kommentar om energi hade varit på plats, men mitt beslut var att vara ledig. En fråga som dominerat nyheterna den senaste veckan är USA:s skuldkris och jag börjar där. Tiningar runt […]