Economist, Aug. 19, 2010

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The Aug. 19, 2010 issue of Economist has India and China as the cover
stories, whose cover can be found in (1) below. The reports are neutral and
informative, in my view.

(1) Contest of the century: As China and India rise in tandem, their
relationship will shape world politics. Shame they do not get on better.
http://www.economist.com/node/16846256?story_id=16846256
(paragraph 2: "These two Asian giants, which until 1800 used to make up half
the world economy")
  
(2) A Himalayan rivalry: Asia’s two giants are still unsure what to make of
each other. But as they grow, they are coming closer—for good and bad.
Economist, Aug. 19, 2010.
http://www.economist.com/node/16843717?story_id=16843717&CFID=146177678&CFTOKEN=97070618

China and India are now the world’s fastest-growing big economies, however,
and in a year or two, when India overtakes Japan on a purchasing-power-
parity basis, they will be the world’s second- and third-biggest.

Note:
(a) wayside (adj): "of, connected with, or situated at the side of a road or
path"  Webster (3rd ed, 1961)
(b) Aksai Chin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksai_Chin
(Simplified Chinese: 阿克赛钦; entirely administered by the People's
Republic of China as a part of Hotan County in the Hotan Prefecture of
Xinjiang Autonomous Region; Aksai Chin (the name literally means "white (ak)
brook (sai) pass (chin)"[citation needed])

In the web, I find a few other translations:
(i) A U[y]ghur word means great white stone plains
(ii) "desert of white stones"
in
Karl Ernest Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac, Tournament of Shadows: The Great
Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. Counterpoint (1999),
which is available in Books.google.com.
(iii) A Turki name, Aksai Chin means "China's white sands"

There are online Uyghur-English dictionaries. But they are useless because I
can not enter Uyghur words for Aksai Chin.

(c) The "glug" in "oil-glugger":
(i) (n; immitation): "a gurgling sound (as of a liquid issuing from a bottle
with intermittent partial air blockage"
(ii) (vi): "to make a glug"

(d) The "gas" in "Rivalry over gas supplies" means "gasoline."
(e) bespeak (vt): "give evidence of; testify to: INDICATE"
(f) Ladakh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladakh
("land of high passes")
(g) nib (n): "the sharpened point of a quill pen"
(h) Uttarakhand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttarakhand
(i) garrulous (adj): "TALKATIVE"
(j) USS Chicago (SSN-721)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chicago_(SSN-721)
(a Los Angeles-class attack submarine; launched in 1984)


---------------------Separately
(1) Japan as number three / Watching China whizz by: Japan is now the world
’s third-largest economy. Can its firms cope? Economist, Aug. 19, 2010.
http://www.economist.com/node/16847828?story_id=16847828
("Unless dramatic changes take place, Japan may suffer a third lost decade")

Note:
(a) Yoko ISHIKURA 石倉 洋子
(b) soshoku-danshi 草食 男子
(c) For "wussy," see "wuss" (n; origin unknown): "WIMP" www.m-w.com

(2) Social change in Japan / When the myths are blown away: A book that
takes an unclichéd look at Japanese society today. Economist, Aug. 19, 2010
.  
http://www.economist.com/node/16843681?story_id=16843681
("Once one of the most egalitarian of countries, Japan is now above average
among rich nations in its income inequality—and, at 14%, has the highest
rate of children raised in poverty")

(3) Rethinking China's one-child policy / The child in time: Thirty years on
, some want to scrap the repressive policy. The problem may be to get people
to have more—not fewer—babies. Economist, Aug. 19, 2010.

My comment:
(a) Yang Zhizhu 杨支柱
(b) Zhang Juwei 张车伟
(c) Please read the second and third paragraphs from teh bottom.

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