- Occasional Interpreter contributor Tim Dunne replies to Stephen Walt on liberal interventionism (or 'imperialism', as Walt has it).
- Great Southern Lands: Building ties between Australia and Brazil is new Lowy Institute report on the Australia-Brazil relationship, a product of a grant from the Council on Australia Latin American Relations.
- Tyler Cowen lists five reasons to be optimistic about the US economy.
- Managing population decline: 'there is an experiment being conducted in Japan, but the experiment isn't Abenomics (which I suspect won’t work, and could end very badly). No, the experiment is about learning to grow old with dignity, not as individuals, but as societies.'
- What a US war with Iran would actually cost.
- The EU is putting higher tariffs on Chinese solar panels as an anti-dumping measure. But could it actually harm Europe's solar industry?
- BBC poll of global opinion about foreign countries finds Germany most popular.
- Vintage Chinese propaganda posters.
Wednesday links: Australia-Brazil, US economy, solar, BBC poll and more
Published 29 May 2013
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