By now it is an open secret the degree to which respect for the Dalai Lama is growing in China withi...

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By now it is an open secret the degree to which respect for the Dalai Lama is growing in China
within the leadership and business circles and amongst the ordinary people. The BBC's exclusive
report on China's super-rich communist Buddhists is the latest proof.
MOSCOW -- If leaders had "de-Sovietized" the country in the 1990s, it would be clear to what Russia
could now return -- namely, to its age-old traditions that predated the Soviet era. But as for Ukraine,
a country that first achieved statehood only in the 20th century, what can it return to now?
HONG KONG -- What the world needs is a West that is prepared to learn from the rest of the world
as much as it seeks to teach it. It does not need a West at odds with the rest.
Chandran Nair
Founder and CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow
To suggest that Grass, who had, over his celebrated career, pushed his country to confront its Nazi
past, was himself willingly affiliated with the Nazis was simply astonishing. For his part, Grass had
denied affiliation, and continued to do so for more than half a century. Until now anyway.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is struggling with a loss of popularity and an inability to pass
reforms that are critical to addressing the enormous economic challenges facing Brazil.
Ricardo Sennes

2. Nonresident Senior Brazil Fellow in the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center.
"Right now, if I want to find out what's going on in Ukraine or Syria or Washington, I read the New
York Times, other national newspapers, I look at the Associated Press wires, I read the British press,
and so on. I use Google all the time, I'm happy it's there. But just as when I read the New York Times
or the Washington Post, or the Wall Street Journal knowing that they have ways of selecting and
shaping the material that reaches you, you have to compensate for it."
Five years into Greece's fiscal emergency, the Troika is justifiably skeptical about this week's make-
or-break negotiations with Athens. Its leaders have heard these commitments before. For Syriza, this
will be its most important test.
Theodoros Arapis
Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Villanova University
Last year's mass anti-government protests against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and led by politician
Imran Khan generated much speculation about Pakistan's next military coup - but of course it didn't
happen.
Wikistrat
The World's 1st Crowdsourced Consultancy
Hillary Clinton should make the moral case about power: for taking it out of the hands of those with
great wealth and putting it back into the hands of average working people.
Robert Reich
Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; author, 'Beyond
Outrage'
The combination of gesturing towards what are usually called "important ethical issues," while
steadfastly putting off serious discussion of them, is pretty typical in our technology debates.
Charles T. Rubin
Visiting Fellow, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
Yes, the world doesn't need to tell India what to do because of our unique cultural value to the
environment and our minimal contribution to historic carbon emissions, but neither can India's
prime minister continue to dwell in rhetoric and falsely lead the public into thinking he is doing
enough to protect them.

3. NEW YORK -- When he was chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke mistakenly described
the problem as a "global saving glut." But in a world with such huge infrastructure needs, the
problem is not a surplus of savings or a deficiency of good investment opportunities. The problem is
a financial system that has excelled at enabling market manipulation, speculation, and insider
trading, but has failed at its core task: intermediating savings and investment on a global scale. That
is why the AIIB could bring a small but badly needed boost to global aggregate demand.
SINGAPORE -- This is a rare window of opportunity for China. If Xi had not launched the anti-
corruption campaign now, it would have been impossible to do so in 10 years time. By then the
vested interest groups would have become too powerful. If the economic oligarchy becomes a
political one, China will become the Russia of yesterday.
Zheng Yongnian
Professor and Director of East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
BERLIN -- Great crises often produce enduring images. For the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this has
often been a terrified child cowering behind protective parents; for 9/11 it was brave firemen
rushing headlong into collapsing buildings. Last month saw what could become one of the lasting
images of Europe's unending crisis: the sight of burning cars and buildings after riots outside the
European Central Bank.
Mark Dawson
Professor of European Law and Governance Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
BEIJING -- We have to tackle the international community's concerns about China head-on, and
explain why the Chinese system has its merits, where the country is headed and why China is not a
threat to others.
Zhao Qizheng
Dean of the School of Journalism Renmin University, former Vice-Mayor of Shanghai
Becoming a grandmother has made me think deeply about the responsibility we all share as
stewards of the world we inherit and will one day pass on. Rather than make me want to slow down,
it has spurred me to speed up.
We don't know how to control super-intelligent machines. How long until a thinking machine -- a
smart killer robot, for example -- learns to program itself?

4. James Barrat
Author, Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- I have seen how Rwanda made investing in social progress -- including gender
equity, a 61 percent reduction in child mortality in a single decade, and 95 percent primary school
enrollment -- integral to its economic development strategy. Rwanda's positive economic
performance would not have been possible without improvement in these and other dimensions of
social progress.
Michael Porter
Professor Harvard Business School, Chairman Advisory Board to the Social Progress Imperative
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