January 14, 2013

Sister Cities as Asian Century Brokers

The sister-city debate needs to move beyond just retaining or opposing the status quo, by exploring, instead, how more might be made of sister-city relationships
December 19, 2012

Platforms for doing well – and helping others to do well – in the Asian Century. Open Letter to New Zealand Prime Minister John Key

To do well in the new Asian Century - and help others to do well - New Zealand could …
November 15, 2012

An open Letter to Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia

What if Australia’s Asia-connected schools were nestled in local communities and cities that were also well connected? Well connected, that is, both internally via social media, and internationally as hubs between Asian, US, and developing nation cities?
November 7, 2012

Local-global connection-building to get through a global economic crisis

Countries previously considered prosperous find themselves mired in debt they cannot repay. The Antipodean Village Blogger argues that understanding some of the basic causes of this problem should help with the identification of realistic proposals to deal with it. The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Australian strategy for the Asian Century is seen as an instructive example of such proposals.
December 31, 2011

From US-Iran problems to a new, local-global solutions paradigm

New Zealand diplomats with nuclear-free peacemaking credentials based already in Tehran, Washington, London, and Europe could right now begin...
October 18, 2009

Ladder Award: University Finance Students who predicted Chinese investment

John Gallagher who nominated this award says, “I am very pleased to see New Zealand expertise being developed that can recognize and assess how New Zealand business is doing in the world economy, especially the Chinese one.”
October 5, 2009

Innovative Sister City Networking for Global Solutions

John Gallagher writes, "Will the relevant decision-makers look carefully at the opportunities that communications technologies can now bring to sister city-based international networking?"
November 6, 2008

Ladder Award: Canterbury Development Corp. for innovative brokering

John Gallagher nominates the Canterbury Development Corporation for this week’s Ladder Award (6 November 08) for its highly innovative brokering of a joint venture partnership between New Zealand’s Endeavour Capital and China’s Wuhan Huagong Venture Capital Company.