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investors are understandably wary of investing in situations where they cannot be confident of physical security, political stability, and legal protections. My former boss at the State Department, Secretary of State Colin Powell, was fond of saying that capital is a coward. Potential investors are often scared off by widespread corruption, the

Bhopal remains a stark disclosure of the discordance between corporate globalization and the possibility of security and sustainability for human communities.

China’s penetration into Brazil presents some policy challenges. First, there is the sheer weight of the trade dependency. Without the China trade surplus to cushion its current account deficit, Brazil would have much greater financing needs. “The administration knows that if things were to go wrong China might punish us and our trade surplus would