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The Asia Department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation views and compiles the international news coverage of China and India on a biweekly basis. To receive summaries related to politics, economy and labour, environment, social rights as well as gender issues as pdf files, please send an e-mail to asien@boell.de.

Policymakers must make sure that the restructuring of the financial system lays the ground for an ecological transformation. This, in turn, will stimulate the economy. To secure its international competitiveness Europe needs to retain its leadership in energy efficiency and green collar industries.

The regional director of Heinrich Böll Foundation South East Asia comments on the EU's Myanmar (Burma) Country Strategy Paper 2007-2013. She proposes to engage with sub-national state actors and to partner with the civil society.

With Barack Obama the USA will become both more american and more european. By entering into dialogue with its international partners, America will also expect them to shoulder more of the responsibility. This will not necessarily be comfortable for Europe.

Niklas Höhne and Sara Moltmann from Ecofys compares the distribution of emission allowances under the GDRs framework with other well established proposals. Their study clearly demonstrates that under a GDRs approach most Annex 1 countries would have to take up much higher obligations than under any of the other frameworks.

South Africa’s National Credit Act has attracted the attention of policymakers worldwide who are keen to prevent reckless lending practices. The NCR is already assisting neighbouring Namibia to develop similar legislation.

No doubt, there are reasons to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary. The very fact that Israel has made it up to now is all but self-evident, considering its widely hostile neighbours and its extremely contradictory internal condition.

The future of U.S. renewable energy policy depends on the next president. What are the policy scenarios for 2009 and beyond?

Belarusian politics, society, economy, and foreign relations enter a new stage in post-Communist history. Yet the expected transition provides only dim prospects for democracy, more likely seems the return of another, kinder form of authoritarianism.