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		<title>Economic Meltdown &#8211; Can China And Russia Jointly Provide An Alternative?</title>
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Wendell W Solomons
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In Beijing in 1958, Chairman Mao claimed that imperialism and all reactionaries were paper tigers.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>              Economic meltdown &#8211; Can China<br />
and Russia jointly provide an alternative?</p>
<p><strong>Â </strong></p>
<p>Wendell W Solomons</p>
<p>Â <strong>Â </strong></p>
<p><strong>In Beijing in 1958, Chairman Mao claimed that imperialism and all reactionaries were paper tigers</strong>.</p>
<p>* * *</p>
<p>Â <strong>In Moscow, for his part General Secretary Khrushchev detected a tiger armed with nuclear teeth. </strong></p>
<p>* * *</p>
<p>Â History has now set aside the outward differences of the statements. To cater for its population today the USA imports every year $1000 billion worth of goods more than it exports. Thus we know how the USA became a magnet for migration. Besides fathering the US President, the Luo tribeâ??s Barack Obama, Sr. is uncle to Kenyaâ??s own PM.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Millions of migrants arrived in the USA mostly drawn to a standard of living maintained by dollar bills printed for the Federal Reserve bank and their equivalent created by bookkeeping entries. In this manner we have a paper tiger.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>It is said that â??Beauty exists in the eye of the beholder.â? The beauty of the dollar pyramid exists because it is associated with value by the eye. As awareness of this illusion dawned, several nations shifted from the dollar to EU currency including oil-rich monarchies in the Gulf. However, China has earned the largest reserves of dollars and should it suddenly shift its reserves to EU currency that would cause a breakdown in international trading.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>What has China chosen to do to save itself from this beautiful paper pyramid?</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>China has chosen, for instance, to employ its dollars to create export-import infrastructure. Singapore no longer has space enough to service ships sailing East-West through the Indian Ocean so China is investing in a massive port complex in southern Sri Lanka. Fiji is receiving Chinese investment in the South Pacific. Australia has been disturbed by the development but that country too seeks Chinese investment so as to export more Australian minerals to China.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>China &#8211; Spared Shock Therapy</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>China signed a free-trade pact with ASEAN. Yet, the most populous nation in ASEAN, Indonesia, finds that its products, ranging from motorcycles to steel, cannot compete with Chinese equivalents.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Chinese influence is experienced in Latin America. In Africa, besides buying minerals China leases land to grow food grain for its population.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Food grain takes us to the republics of the former Soviet Union. Currently, less than half of Russiaâ??s arable land is cultivated. The picture is similar in Kazakhstan and the Ukraine. That leaves more space for Chinese farming infrastructure.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Yet, China also needs water, timber, petroleum, natural gas and coal. While the US clears a path through Afghanistan for energy pipelines from Central Asia, China has already built its own. China has been setting up saw mills in Siberia which vast region has timber reserves aplenty (at 13 million sq. km it constitutes 77% of Russiaâ??s land area.) Chinese investment in petroleum, natural gas and coal has been welcomed by top Siberian officials in a situation where several Siberian towns have been deserted through Russians moving for work to large cities like Moscow in Russiaâ??s European sector.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>The Russia / China contrast arises in the first instance through China having being spared Shock</p>
<p>Therapy that was used in information warfare on Russia. The convener of economic hit men for Russia, â??new US friend and partnerâ?? in 1992, was discovered by journalist Anne Williamson to be Larry Summers (of whom later.)Â  Shock Therapy made many millions of Russians believe that they were individual â??Napoleon Bonapartes.â?? That set off a silent (and sometimes not so silent) war of each-against-the-other.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>These millions of Â â??Napoleonsâ?? had watched US hit men, shadow box and audio-visually demolish the concept of society on Russiaâ??s central TV channels. As UK PM Margaret Thatcher had announced in the 1970s (and therefore proved adequately lethal by 1992): â??Thereâ??s no such thing as society â?? there are only individuals and families.â? In consequence a first ever public debate â??What is the â??Russian ideaâ??â?? arose under President Boris Yeltsin.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Vladimir Putin, the next Russian leader, suggested a finance capital agenda behind this, â??They want us to open our doors so that their banks can buy us up.â? In the UK and USA, finance capital holding houses had bought up manufacturing industry. Yet, over the years the finance houses demonstrated their incapability in managing industry staff towards innovation. Anglo-American civilisation is presently lost in the crisis of paper capitalism created by (1) hit-man, bankerâ??s capitalism and (2) hyper-active private media. The tail wags the dog.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>These quotations suggest that diversion by media adds to lost productivity:</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>â??To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.â?</p>
<p>â?? Jeremy Seabrook</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>â??The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretense, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.â?</p>
<p>â?? Arundhati Roy</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Anglo-American holding companies keep seeking to respond to their crisis by bursting overseas to solve the problems created at home.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>To return to discussing China now, we see that Chinese manufacturing has deeply penetrated not only Vladivostok and Khabarovsk in the Far East but all major Russian population centres. If Russia restores its economic planning functions, then an orderly process of joint ventures will develop the economic potential of Siberia and pave the way for innovative new business as China has already done in winning consumers world-wide.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Besides restoring economic planning, Russia must re-address the issue of motivating cadre (that Anglo-American management books struggled for during 1960-1990 but failed.) Moscow had tried a system of work brigades in the 1970s (notably used by Volvo.) On the other hand, the system of participative group work pioneered by corporations such as CANON, SONY or TOYOTO will create trust, innovation and job satisfaction more rapidly. Today, face-to-face group collaboration, say for new engineering designs, is possible even over large distances thanks to the Internet and factories providing private electronic communication.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Why US canâ??t match Chinaâ??s economic planning</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Today US fears China as Russiaâ??s partner in Siberia.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>US consumers depend on manufactures from China while at the same time the â??New York Timesâ?? has been calling China a superpower.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>President Obama mentioned China twice in his January 2010 State of the Union address. His address still continued his â??empowermentâ?? election slogan that paralleled the famous Mahatma Gandhi quote, â??We must be the change we wish to see in the world.â?</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Yet, President Obama is trapped in the coils of Larry Summers, the thick Wall Street python who heads the White House Economic Council (though a nephew of economics text-book writer Paul Samuelson, his boorishness and villainy brought in academic staff to push him out of the prestige seat of Harvard Universityâ??s head that had been bought for him by Wall Street.) This heavyweight</p>
<p>hit man is now in the process of returning Obama to media-minted crises overseas.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>As Michael Parenti mentions â??</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>â??With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader &#8230; charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably â??anti-Americanâ? and â??anti-West.â? Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public &#8230; are swept along.â?</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>The Anglo-American bankersâ?? shadowy cross-Atlantic war against the EU and its common currency was toned down (NY&#8217;s George Soros ceased talking down the euro in 2001,) but China and Iran are now being hauled up for attack by network media.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>As far as military attacks on Iran go, the US airforce knows it will be met with Sunburn missiles flying at twice the speed of sound. Therefore an air-battle will set off a blazing inferno of oil tankers in the Gulf through which 40% of the worldâ??s petroleum passes. So the US choice to sabre-rattle on media will affirm China&#8217;s strategy of more coordination with Russia. China and Russia are already partners in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Even if 300 million US citizens lose access to Chinaâ??s products, we live in a 7,000 million population world. To meet demand for manufactured goods from the world, more activity will clearly be scheduled with next-door Siberia for several basic resources that China&#8217;s will need.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Singapore offered incentives to mothers who avail themselves of higher education because children would benefit from more knowledge and skills. For the part of China, that nation uses its state sector to send investment into chosen targets and therefore enrollment in higher education institutions increased by 65% as compared with 1998 â?? China responded with a full basket.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Clean energy has been discussed in the world for several decades. For the part of China, it has now become the worldâ??s leading manufacturer of solar cells. China is also making great strides in the use of other alternative sources of energy, including wind energy.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>With China expanding its manufacturing capacity, Russia can at first hand earn revenue on timber, water, petroleum, natural gas and coal.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Yet, with Larry Summers coiled around him in the manner of a python, President Obama has made little progress in using the state sector as President Roosevelt did to tackle the Great Depression in the 1930s. The World Bankâ??s globalist planners in Washington DC for their part developed planning techniques to destabilise numerous countries (Summers occupied the post of Chief Economist there.)</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>As opposed to Washington DC offices, Russia possesses experience, manuals and teachers to utilise the GOSPLAN planning techniques that Russia had itself shared in the 1950s with China.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>In this connection we also have an important historic precedent to remember.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>The devastation of Kievan Rus during 1237â??1240 AD by Tatar hordes was no less catastrophic than US Shock Therapy. Russia arose again thanks to the culture preserved by Christian monasteries in Siberia which area the Tatars did not invade. The Siberian monasteries helped people regroup. The Russian movement could then go back west and consolidate in Moscow. That created a capital north of Kiev and it was Muscovite Tsar Ivan IV (Grozny/Terrible) who finally overcame the Tatars in battles in Astrakhan in 1556.</p>
<p><strong>Â </strong></p>
<p>In summary</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>China will inevitably use its huge foreign exchange reserves in Asia and the world. Until consumer goods manufacturing arises in Russia from a knowledge-intensive base as President Dmitry Medvedev advises, Siberia can serve China as a source for water, timber and energy. This would happen during five years subject to three factors:</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>1. Russia must restore economic planning functions for participation with China. GOSPLAN will help in the onward development of Siberia but will also help provide a social safety net in Russia.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>2. Russia must protect its population from media disinformation attacks as China has been doing. At the World Social Forum (WSF) held in January 2010 in Brazil several speakers suggested introducing a subject for schools so as to â??dismantle disinformation.â? Key resource persons of the WSF include Arundhati Roy with experience gained in India.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>3. Besides a return to economic planning â?? after half a century the management issue of motivating people towards working in cooperation must be solved again in Russia as it did upto the era of the launch of the worldâ??s first satellites.</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>On the Internet, for further details see these two reports â??</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>1. â??Petrograd connection, planning and statecraftâ?</p>
<p>Â </p>
<p>2. â??Saturdayâ??s Miracleâ?</p>
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		<title>Impact Of The Asian Economic Crisis</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current economic crisis is deepening in Asia with exports hitting rock bottom, GDP’s sinking, fiscal deficits ballooning and suicide rates rising. In January, Japanese exports nearly halved since the year before, Taiwanese exports fell 42 percent and Hong Kong’s GDP is expected to contract by 2~3 percent this year.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The current economic crisis is deepening in Asia with exports hitting rock bottom, GDP’s sinking, fiscal deficits ballooning and suicide rates rising. In January, Japanese exports nearly halved since the year before, Taiwanese exports fell 42 percent and Hong Kong’s GDP is expected to contract by 2~3 percent this year.</p>
<p>While the three financial crisis in recent economic history (1997-98, 2001 and 2008-09) cannot really be compared, similarities do echo between the three in terms of there being a mass exodus of money from Asian nations, government aided stimulus packages to resuscitate the economy and social, trade and political upheaval.</p>
<p>It is also interesting to note that the four Asian nations &#8211; Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia &#8211; which are coupled to the west have been the most affected during all three crisis. Further, economic reactions were similar in all three crisis &#8211; currencies plunged, GDP’s dipped and stock markets slipped, prices of assets such as real estate and automobiles fell, interest rates dropped and jobs were lost across the region.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, Asia has learnt her lessons from the previous two crisis and is working towards rectifying the situation to rebuild a stronger region. Now, Asia is more integrated, governments have implemented stronger banking and financial polices and governments have made sure they have deep pockets which can help them in case of another crisis.</p>
<p>Regional banks such as the Asian Development bank are pumping money into Asia, governments are working together to support intra regional trade and reduce barriers and regional organisations such as ASEAN are collaborating with governments to bouy economies out of the crisis, help keep jobs and improve Asia’s standard of living.</p>
<p>This article was written by Nazia Vasi for 2point6billion.com, a commentary and news forum about <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.dezshira.com">business in Asia</a>.</p>
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		<title>Special Economic Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are specific geographical regions that have economic laws different from and more liberal than a country&#8217;s typical economic laws. The goal is usually an increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country.</p>
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<p>There is a clear understanding that a well-implemented and designed SEZ can bring about many desired benefits for a host-country: increases in employment, FDI attraction, general economic growth, foreign exchange earnings, international exposure, and the transfer of new technologies and skills. Hence, many developing countries are also developing the SEZs with the expectation that they will provide the engines of growth for their economies to achieve industrialization. But for this to be successful their governments need to enact legislation, create a focused administrative infrastructure to govern special economic zones, offer highly attractive incentives and locate zones in the best possible locations. Overall investment climate (infrastructure, governance) in a country matters in the success of its special economic zones in terms of competitiveness.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>One of the earliest and the most famous Special Economic Zones were founded by the government of the People&#8217;s Republic of China under Deng Xiaoping in the early 1980s. The most successful Special Economic Zone in China, Shenzhen, has developed from a small village into a city with a population over 10 million within 20 years. Following the Chinese examples, Special Economic Zones have been established in several other countries.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>In the face of fierce regional competition, South Korea is also showing strong economic performance and can boast a highly skilled labor force. It has started working strategically towards attracting investment, including the establishment of its first special economic zone, called The Incheon Special Economic Zone and so look set to transform the country into a regional hub from which foreign companies can expand into other parts of Asia.<br />&#13;</p>
<p>The Incheon special economic zone in the north revolves around the international airport, the creation of an international financial services district and Songdo’s “intelligent city”, which will include a 60-storey world trade centre, 60 office buildings, deluxe hotels, shopping malls and a golf course, due to be completed by 2008. </p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>These economic zones are a strategy to make Korea (http://korea.ixs.net/) more attractive in the eyes of foreign investors and to draw them to the country. </p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>The project includes a technology complex to house research centers and venture start-ups alongside the Korean Institute of Technology. Two more complexes, for biotechnology and for knowledge and information will be built by 2008.<br />&#13;</p>
<p>These projects, which have high-level political backing, are supported by a package of generous financial incentives. Other incentives include simplified administrative procedures, heavily subsidized land leases on government owned land, tax breaks and linguistic support. </p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Situated directly between Japan and China, South Korea is at the centre of a vast Asian market with a total population of two billion, including 500 million in the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, with which, along with China and Japan, Korea enjoys a special commitment to economic cooperation. North-east Asia alone accounts for about 24% of the world’s population and 19% of global production.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>South Korea&#8217;s gateway strategy is designed to leverage its geographic and geocultural advantages while offering a new, friendly business face to potential investors in the form of SEZs in the southern part of the peninsula. Foreigners, foreign companies, and international economic organizations can be involved in free corporate activities in these economic zones offering a range of special advantages, including tax, labor, regulatory and other incentives. </p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>South Korea is a cheaper location than Japan and more straightforward from a regulatory point of view than China, having opened its markets decades ago.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Generally, it is argued that the special economic zone concept is attractive because it is much easier to resolve the problems of infrastructure and governance on a limited geographical area than it is to resolve them countrywide. Such economic zones cannot be insulated from the broader institutional and economic context of the country and be treated as an economy within the economy. Zones are a part of the economy and require overall improvement in the investment climate to ensure success in the long run. They should not, therefore, be viewed as an alternative to the overall development model. This is perhaps the reason why SEZs failed to fulfill the role of engines of industrialization in most countries on a sustainable basis.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>For more Information About  Special Economic Zone: http://eng.ifez.go.kr/guide/org/special-economic-zone.asp</p>
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		<title>How Islamic Union Will Affect the Economic Development</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contemporary world politics make it necessary for nations to integrate into international unions in the interest of their own national security and economy. In these international unions, which are usually based upon geographic location, such factors as natural resources, trading blocs, and even cultural values play an important role. Many neighboring countries combine their resources [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Contemporary world politics make it necessary for nations to integrate into international unions in the interest of their own national security and economy. In these international unions, which are usually based upon geographic location, such factors as natural resources, trading blocs, and even cultural values play an important role. Many neighboring countries combine their resources under the auspices of such organizations, create defensive alliances, and cooperate on a wide array of issues. The goal of such unions is to preserve peace, control the arms race, resolve disputes through diplomacy, promote socioeconomic development, and protect fundamental human rights and democracy. At the present time, NATO, the OSCE, the EU, NAFTA, OPEC, ASEAN, the G-8, the D-8, and APEC are the foremost international political, military, and economic unions.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>These institutions are subject to organizational reforms because of new members or a widening of scope. All of these organizations, formed in the aftermath of the Second World War, have contributed to creating stability and order in the world and have played a major role in global socioeconomic development. Member nations protect their economic and military interests, and also acquire a stronger regional and international position. Even the developed world perceives the necessity of such partnerships. The creation of free trade zones, regional trade agreements, abolished customs controls, and even a common currency (as in the EU) safeguard the future of member states. Defensive pacts enable member states to reduce military expenditures and to divert those resources to cultural and educational fields.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>A similar organization will provide considerable benefits to Muslim nations. For those that are desperate for technological as well as economic development, the foremost step toward stability is the creation of a central organization or, in other words, a unified Islamic world under the auspices of the Islamic Union.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Economic Development and Increasing Prosperity</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Economic cooperation is necessary on two counts: stability and development. Muslim nations must bring stability and solidity to their economies. Developing industries and making the required investments is vital, as is the need for a comprehensive development plan and the simultaneous development of education, economy, culture, science, and technology. While various sectors are developed technologically, the labor force&#8217;s educational levels and standards must be raised accordingly. Society must be motivated to become more productive, and the resulting economic cooperation will play a major role in eradicating poverty, illiteracy, the unjust distribution of wealth, and other socioeconomic problems rampant in Muslim countries. This partnership can be formed only by the creation of free trade zones, customs unions, and common economic areas.</p>
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<p>Most Muslim countries have geostrategic importance as well as rich natural resources (e.g., natural gas and crude oil). These resources and strategic opportunities, however, are not being used effectively. In the Islamic world, 86% of the population&#8217;s living standards fall below $2,000, 76% under $1,000, and 67% under $500 per year. When the Islamic world&#8217;s total resources are considered,(1) this is quite a paradox: Roughly half of the petrol consumed in the West is exported from the Islamic world, as is 40% of the world&#8217;s agricultural production.(2) Many economists and strategists freely admit that the world economy depends upon the Islamic world&#8217;s oil and gas exports, in particular those of the Persian Gulf.(3)</p>
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<p>The Persian Gulf holds two-thirds of the planet&#8217;s discovered crude oil reserves. Data obtained from research concludes that Saudi Arabia alone holds 25.4% of the world&#8217;s oil reserves, or 262 billion barrels. A further 11% is found in Iraq, 9.6 % in the UAE, 9.2 % in Kuwait, 8.6 % in Iran, 13% in other OPEC member states. The rest is distributed across the remainder of the world.(4) Research commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy shows that between 2000 and 2020, oil exports from the area will increase by 125%.(5) This means that the world will continue to meet most of its energy needs by imports from the Gulf region. Moreover, the Middle East has 40% of the global natural gas reserves; 35 % of these reserves are in the Gulf region.(6) Algeria, Libya, and other North African countries have 3.7 % of the world&#8217;s reserves.</p>
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<p>The Caucasus and Central Asia are also rich in oil, natural gas, and other natural resources. For instance, Kazakhstan has between 10-17.6 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, and its natural gas reserves are estimated at between 53 and 83 trillion cubic feet. Turkmenistan hasbetween 98 and 155 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves, making it the fourth largest producer.(7) Some other Muslim countries have valuable mineral resources. For instance, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are two of the world&#8217;s leading gold producers. Turkey has one of the world&#8217;s richest boron reserves, only recently discovered to be very important, and Tajikistan has the world&#8217;s largest aluminum producing facilities.</p>
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<p>These advantages will become more important in the twenty-first century, which some have already christened the &#8220;energy century.&#8221; Energy is an essential element of modern society in terms of the military, industry, urbanization, and transport. Given that economic activity and manufacturing depend primarily upon energy, nations will do their best to achieve control over these energy resources. The Islamic world is not using its resources effectively, for many of its members lack the infrastructure and technology to increase the production and use their natural resources to develop their industries. Therefore, the resources&#8217; contributions to the country&#8217;s economy are limited to export earnings. These countries do not have the means to process their own crude oil, use it in their industrial complexes, or to develop their industries. Worse still, some Muslim nations do not even have the necessary means to explore and research their natural resources or to discover and extract them. Explorations undertaken by foreign companies reveal that other Muslim nations have oil and gas reserves, but they cannot benefit from their resources.</p>
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<p>Naturally, the ineffective use of natural resources is not the Islamic world&#8217;s only economic problem. However, solving this problem can begin the process of solving many other problems. The economies of Muslim nations contain differences in structure and functioning. Some nations&#8217; economies depend upon mineral resources, such as the members of OPEC, while other nations&#8217; depend upon agriculture. These differences are also reflected, to some extent, in their social structures, such as the widely varying degrees of rural and urban populations. Developing complementary relationships and helping each other in their respective areas of expertise can turn these differences into a source of riches. All of this will be possible with the Islamic Union.</p>
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<p>Joint ventures and project partnerships will be an important step in the right direction, for they will enable countries to benefit from one another&#8217;s experiences and the income earned from investment projects will benefit all of the participating countries. Such mutual financial support is compatible with Islamic morality, for helping the needy and having a sense of social responsibility are important characteristics that Muslims strive to acquire. Many verses in the Qur’an remind Muslims to watch over the needy. </p>
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<p>Society&#8217;s internal cohesion must be extended to international relations. As international cooperation within a partnership cannot be one-sided, employment and income levels will rise in both countries. For example, one country will produce oil and another one will process it, and agriculturally dependent countries will be able to import the food they need from agriculturally developed countries. A manpower-poor country’s need will be met by another Islamic country, while rich countries will be able to invest in and help out a manpower-rich country that does not have enough jobs for its people. This will be to the benefit of both. Sharing know-how and experience will increase prosperity, and all Muslims will benefit from technological developments.</p>
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<p>Joint ventures that realize the Islamic world&#8217;s unification of opportunities and means will enable Muslims to produce hi-tech products. The Islamic common market will enable Muslim-made products to be marketed in other Muslim countries without the hindrance of customs, quotas, and other cross-border obstacles. The marketplace will grow, the market share and exports of all Muslim nations will rise, industrialization will speed up, and economic development will bring progress in technology. The living standards and wealth of Muslim nations will increase, and their existing inequalities will disappear. Some free trade agreements are already in place between countries in the Gulf, the Pacific Rim, and North Africa. Trade agreements signed by Turkey are already operational in the Islamic world. Bilateral cooperation exists in some regions; however, their scope must be widened. Such cooperation will safeguard the rights and interests of all Muslim nations and lead to all of them becoming developed—a result from which all of them will derive a far greater benefit than if they do not cooperate with each other.</p>
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<p>All of these can be realized only under a central authority&#8217;s leadership and coordination. Achieving this will be possible if Muslim nations adopt the Qur&#8217;an&#8217;s values and the Prophet&#8217;s (May God bless him and grant him peace) Sunnah, or, in other words, if they adopt Islamic culture. The Islamic Union must lead the way to this cultural awakening, as well as the resulting political and economic cooperation.</p>
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<p>Mutual cooperation among Muslims, part of the Islamic code, must be adhered to by all Muslims, for God commands people to refrain from avarice and to guard the needy and support one another. In fact, destitute people have a due share of the believers&#8217; wealth (Qur&#8217;an, 51:19). As the Qur&#8217;an proclaims:</p>
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<p>Those of you possessing affluence and ample wealth should not make oaths that they will not give to their relatives, the very poor, and those who have migrated in the way of God. Rather, they should pardon and overlook. Would you not love God to forgive you? God is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Qur&#8217;an, 24:22)</p>
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<p>He who has plenty should spend from his plenty, but he whose provision is restricted should spend from what God has given him. God does not demand from anyone more than He has given it. God will appoint ease after difficulty. (Qur&#8217;an, 65:7)</p>
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<p>Our Lord also reveals that believers are one another&#8217;s guardians (Qur&#8217;an, 9:71). The word &#8220;guardian&#8221; conveys such meanings as friend, helper, mentor, and protector. It also expresses the importance of cooperation and solidarity between Muslim nations. The cooperation that will arise from this fraternal awareness between Muslim nations will bring prosperity and wealth to Muslims and eradicate poverty, an important problem of the Islamic world. Societies that follow the Qur&#8217;an&#8217;s values will not experience famine, destitution, and poverty. Muslims will develop their nations by following rational and long-term policies, establishing good relations with other nations and people, valuing trade and development, and learning from other cultures&#8217; experiences. This was so in history and, God willing, under the Islamic Union&#8217;s leadership it will be so once again.</p>
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<p>Under the pen name of Harun Yahya, Adnan Oktar has written some 250 works. His books contain a total of 46,000 pages and 31,500 illustrations. Of these books, 7,000 pages and 6,000 illustrations deal with the collapse of the Theory of Evolution. You can read, free of charge, all the books Adnan Oktar has written under the pen name Harun Yahya on these websites www.harunyahya.com</p>
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<p>1- Demetrios Yiokaris, Islamic Leage Study Guide-1997, United Nations: Study Guides. Online at: www.vaxxine.com/cowac/islmclg1.htm. <br />&#13;</p>
<p>2- “Islamic Countries have the resources to match the west, scientist”, Arabic News.com, 28 May 2000. Online at: www.arabicnews.com/ansub/ Daily/Day/000628/2000062848.html. <br />&#13;</p>
<p>3- Anthony H. Cordesman and Arleigh A. Burke, “The Gulf and Transition: Executive Summary and Major Policy Recommendations” (October 30, 2000). <br />&#13;</p>
<p>4- Anthony H. Cordesman and Arleigh A. Burke, “The US Military and the Evolving Challenges in the Middle East” (March 9, 2002), 3. <br />&#13;</p>
<p>5- Anthony H. Cordesman and Arleigh A. Burke, “The US Military and the Evolving Challenges in the Middle East” (March 9, 2002), 3. <br />&#13;</p>
<p>6- Anthony H. Cordesman and Arleigh A. Burke, “The US Military and the Evolving Challenges in the Middle East” (March 9, 2002), 4. <br />&#13;</p>
<p>7- Jim Nichol, “Central Asia’s New States: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests,” CRS (Congressional Research Service) Issue Brief for Congress (June 13, 2003). Online at: www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/abstract.cfm?NLEid=16833.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Along with the global economy picking up, will give all the industry has brought warm spring. After hard struggle, Chinese export-oriented enterprises also seems to be out of the shoe of financial crisis, developed minutemen.</p>
<p>From shenzhen footwear products export, since this year, and a steady growth of asean, America and Africa, has realized the export growth. Shenzhen customs, relevant statistics show that in the first three quarters of this year, the shenzhen port shoe export 36.9 billion dollars, than last year the corresponding period grows 9.4%, exports last month is reached 1.9 billion of shoes, a year-on-year growth of five percent more. This should look for shoes is a exciting news, but the fact is not increased exports, and not reap the benefits of joy, because the shoe enterprises from profits. Which is the most exports, footwear, Latin America on growth from emerging markets such as asean, but many buyers pulled by the export tax rebate rate hike, often RMB exchange as low export prices, this excuse is high profit lower export-oriented shoes, but the key factor of the European and American market exports dropped significantly, but the profit space greatly, still the ascension to attract many shoes look into. Recovery of shoe market still exists, the cost of labor concerns, foreign consumption market, the international trade barriers, the setting of export-oriented enterprises have become the most worrying problem shoes.</p>
<p>China&#8217;s shoes manufacturing power, have labor and resources advantages. As the labor-intensive export-oriented enterprises, to increase the shoe to expand production and profits to reduce costs, to &#8220;cheap&#8221; means to capture the market competition and price is to increase production employees or expansion of the employees working intensity and labor time, as employees of self-awareness, will need to improve treatment, this will make Labour costs rise, the shoes will undoubtedly profit decrease. If the shoe enterprises would compromise, may appear &#8220;waste&#8221; danger, not only causes the normal production and business operation, also will not restrict the sustainable development of the enterprises shoes. In the production of high shoes should introduce scientific technology and equipment, get rid of transition of labor conditions on, positive change, appropriately increase industrial employee benefits, completes the work for talents reserves, the development of high build strong shoes. The talents</p>
<p>On the other hand, the foreign economic development characteristics is low, accumulation, by expanding consumer demand to create, and promote the development of the production and technological progress, is this excessive consumption mode for the financial crisis. The storm and under the influence of foreign consumption market depression, people&#8217;s consumption by inhibiting the enthusiasm, always wander in the purchase price of the products of this stage, eager to develop export-oriented market a shoe enterprises. Although the price increases, the order no shoes, but mostly low footwear product demand, profit outlook is not optimistic. Shoe enterprises want to change the foreign market consumption ability, is the correct analysis of market, marketable products production to meet the market demand, at the right price to attract consumption and flexibly apply marketing strategy, continue to widen sales channel, in order to achieve target profit.</p>
<p>Increasingly high barriers to international trade also hindered the development of export-oriented enterprises shoes, some ax-grinders foreign trade enterprise, to abuse of Chinese shoes look out the domestic market. Fiercer trade friction aggravated Chinese shoe enterprises, foreign export tariff of pressure to improve the meager profit was in trouble again, shoes look forward to in the export-oriented shoes weakened in the international market. Frequent outbreaks of trade protectionism, make shoes export to have an overall recovery. In view of this situation, the export-oriented enterprises should constantly enhance their shoes, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests in responding decisively, excavate the potential of the international market, more to avoid a market transition, reduce trade barriers encountered on the danger, still can get larger development space.</p>
<p>Economy is slowly recovering and the export-oriented shoe enterprises both challenges and opportunities and farsighted shoe enterprises should be devoted to solve these problems and concerns, eliminate development path &#8220;tiger&#8221;, through the economic recovery, complete the momentum of the strategic planning, make great efforts to enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of enterprises, the shoes in the international market out the new Chinese shoes, again soar!</p>
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		<title>Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: Challenges And Tasks</title>
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