The Mohammed Code: Why a Desert Prophet Wants You Dead (73 page)

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Fred Bergsten. America's two-front economic conflict. Foreign Affairs. March/April 2001, pp. 16-17.

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Fred Bergsten. America's two-front economic conflict. Foreign Affairs. March/April 2001, pp. 16-17.

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For an example, see:
George Staunton. An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. Volumes 1 and 2. Replica of 1797 edition by W. Bulmer and Co., London. Boston, MA: Adamant Media, 2005.

869
Daniel J. Boorstin. The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search To Know His World And Himself. New York: Vintage Books, 1985. Dennis & Ching Ping Bloodworth. The Chinese Machiavelli: 3,000 Years of Chinese Statecraft. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

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China Seeks Big Role on World Stage By KEVIN GRAY .c The Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) AP-NY-04-16-01. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200104/10/eng20010410_67298.html, downloaded 8/9/01

People's Daily 4/10/01

Jiang: China Never Gives in to Outside Pressure

President Jiang Zemin said Monday in Buenos Aires that China "never gives in to any outside pressure on principle issues related to China's state sovereignty and territorial integrity."

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China’s Growing Interest in Latin America

Kerry Dumbaugh, Specialist in Asian Affairs

Mark P. Sullivan, Specialist in Latin American Affairs

Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division. CRS Report for Congress. April 20, 2005.

http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/45464.pdf
. President Hu Jintao Visit’s Latin America; Attends APEC - A Special Press Summary. Virtual Information Center. 11/24/2004.
http://www.vic-info.org/RegionsTop.nsf/0/78ec98f24a331ca20a256f56007dc031?OpenDocument
.

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China, EU discuss strategic partnership

(Xinhua)

Updated: 2005-05-18 21:05.
Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-05/18/content_443745.htm

873
Russia and China announce strategic partnership in a bid to counter expanding Western military and fiscal influences

Babu Ghanta, Special Correspondent

February 03, 2005. India Daily. http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/02-03b-05.asp

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ASEAN and China form strategic partnership. Jusuf Wanandi, Jakarta. The Jakarta Post.com.
Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.thejakartapost.com/misc/PrinterFriendly.asp

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Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Member Countries.
Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.aseansec.org/4736.htm

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. Build a new international order on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

11/17/2000. http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/ziliao/3602/3604/t18016.htm

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U.S Census Bureau. Historical Estimates of World Population. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html

878
“We can easily establish that fact that total Muslim Population in 2006 is 1.6 billion which is far greater than currently estimated 1.2 or 1.3 billion” says the homepage of the Islamic website Islamicpopulation.com. Muslim Population Worldwide. Islamicpopulatio.com. Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.islamicpopulation.com/
See also: “Islam is the fastest growing religion and the second largest religion in the world.” Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.islamicweb.com/begin/results.htm

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China Population Information and Research Center . China Population. Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.cpirc.org.cn/en/eindex.htm

880
The population of the European Union was 456 million in 2003. And the population of the US in 2006 was 300 million. Putting the Western World’s population in 2005 at over 756 million. See:

European demography in 2003: EU25 population up by 0.4% to reach 456 million--One in 14 people in world live in EU25. Eurostat News Release 105/2004, August 31, 2004

Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-31082004-BP/EN/3-31082004-BP-EN.PDF#search=%22european%20union%20population%22
.

U.S. Census Bureau. U.S. and World Population Clocks.

Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

881
The total
human population of the planet in 1750 was roughly 629,000. By

1800 it had increased to 813,000.

U.S. Census Bureau. Historical Estimates of World Population. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html

882
Charles Mackay, LL. D.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1932. Originally published 1841. business cycle. (2006). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved May 21, 2006, from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9106213.

883
For post-1981 crashes that did NOT go global in a major way, see Wikipedia. List of Stock Market Crashes. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_market_crashes
. Wikipedia. Asian Financial Crisis.
Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_financial_crisis
. Wikipedia. Dot Com Bubble.
Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble.

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Robert J. Samuelson. Great Depression. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. The Library of Economics an Liberty.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GreatDepression.html
; Essays on the Great Depression

by Ben S. Bernanke. Princeton University Press, 2000. p 44. Nathan Miller. New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America. Scribner, 2003, 375

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List of Recessions. Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions

886
Yuri Kageyama. Japan Warns About Economic Recovery. The Associated Press Tokyo. July 11, 2002.

Japan Upgrades Economic Assessment The Associated Press, Tokyo, October 8, 2002.

Adam Posen. For Japan, It's Every Which Way But Back. Retrieved October 20, 2002, From The World Wide Web

Http://Www.Washingtonpost.Com/Wp-Dyn/Articles/A50655-2002oct19.Html Sunday, October 20, 2002.

887
Wrote Fareed Zakaria, the former editor of Foreign Affairs and International Editor for Newsweek, “
In the last two years Indonesia's economy has shrunk by almost 80 percent, Thailand's by 50 percent, South Korea's by 45 percent, Malaysia's by 25 percent.” Fareed Zakaria. Will Asia Turn Against the West? New York Times, July 10, 1998.

888
At First China Was Worried That It Would Be Sucked Into The Economic Vacuum With Its Neighbors. It Need Not Have Feared. Its Economic Growth Rate Never Fell Below 7%--An Astonishingly High Figure.

Tiffany Wu . Intel Boosts China Investment Amid Global Slowdown SHANGHAI, Reuters Sept 21, 2001.

Tamora Vidaillet ANALYSIS-China Frets Over Growth As Global Prospects Dim. BEIJING, Reuters Oct 18 , 2001

ELAINE KURTENBACH. China To Keep Growth At 7 Percent. The Associated Press HONG KONG. October 19, 2001.

Edwin Chan. INTERVIEW-Applied Materials Sees $500 Mln China Orders Reuters, SHANGHAI, March 26, 2002.

889
C. Fred Bergsten, Bates Gill, R. Nicholas Lardy, Derek J. Mitchell. China: What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower. Institute for International Economics (IIE) and

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Washington, DC: The CSIS Press. April 2006.

890
Said a September 2001 article in Singapore’s Straits Times, “
The economic ascent of China is casting a lengthening shadow on the region.
” Quoted in Joe Studwell. The China Dream: The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth. New York: Grove/Atlantic, 2002: p. 359.

891
“The economies of Southeast Asian countries were the fastest-growing in the world until 1997, when a currency crash sent the region into a slump. Japan's economy also remains in a funk. China, with annual growth of about 7 percent, is now the regional star.…. For China's eastern neighbors - Japan, Taiwan and South Korea in particular - their own competitiveness increasingly depends on shifting manufacturing to China to take advantage of its lower costs and get closer to its huge market.” Elaine Kurtenbach. China's Neighbors Watch Warily. The Associated Press. October 21, 2002.

892
Antoaneta Bezlova. The Dragon stirs in a wary world. Asia Times Online.

Retrieved December 30, 2004, from the World Wide Web

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL25Ad01.html
. “
On June 28, the BBC reported that China had passed the U.S. as the world's biggest recipient of foreign direct investment. China attracted $53 billion worth of new factories in 2003, whereas the U.S. took in only $40 billion; India, $4 billion; and Russia, a measly $1 billion.”
Chalmers Johnson. Sailing Toward a Storm in China: U.S. Maneuvers Could Spark a War. Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2004.

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n.a. Liberalise or lose investment, US lobby warns ASEAN. Reuters, August 7, 2001.

894
n.a. Wake up to China's WTO entry, Supachai warns Asia. Reuters, November 6, 2001.

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Barry Eichengreen, Yeongseop Rhee, And Hui Tong. The Impact of China on the Exports of Other Asian Countries. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2004. NBER Working Paper No. W10768. Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=592147

896
Figures on India's middle class varied wildly. The optimists put it at 700 million. The pessimists at 250 million. India's National Council of Applied Economic Research (http://www.ncaer.org/) was the estimator that put the figure for India's middle class at 700 million in 2003. (Michael Schuman. Hey, Big Spenders: India's young are becoming world-class consumers, and multi-nationals are taking note. Time Asia. August 25, 2003.
Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030901-477977,00.html)

Gurcharan Das, author of
India Unbound
and a former CEO of Procter & Gamble India, was less ebullient in his figures. He calculated the size of India's middle class at 250 million as of 2004. (Gurcharan Das. The Respect They Deserve: India's rich are doing well, and good for them—but the growing middle class is the real story.Time Asia. November 29, 2004.
Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501041206/two_indias_vpt_das.html

Gurcharan Das. India's Growing Middle Class. The Globalistl. November 05, 2001. See also: Scott Baldauf. Boom splits India's middle class. Christian Science Monitor. May 13, 2004.)