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SCOPE 7

Forget the Taiwan-China détente; the Haiti

aftershocks hit the elections; a British rebellion

against Rupert Murdoch; the next Chile? ;

and more

THE TAKE 15

Essays by

owen matthews, daniel gross, ezra

klein, robert j. samuelson,

and jacob weisberg

FEATURES

Top 10 Green Ideas 24

From burgers to atoms.

The U.S. Top 100 29

Tech companies lead the list.by kathleen deveny

The Global Top 25 34

IBM comes out in front.

The Green Filter 35

But is GoodGuide a business? by ian yarett

America’s Holy Writ 38

The Tea Party and the Constitution.by andrew romano

CULTURE

Art Painters take on Lee Kuan Yew 51

Interview Zhang Yimou 54

The Good Life Kayaking in style 55

The Last Word Khal ed Meshaal of Hamas 60

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china’s recent bellig-

erence toward Japan has

worried its neighbors, including Taiwan,

which the mainland regards as a prodi-

gal son. China has been drawing Taiwan

closer with improved trade links, and the

June signing of a breakthrough free-trade

agreement between the two entities will

bind Taiwan’s economy even tighter to the

mainland’s. Yet while both sides speak of

improved relations, economic ties haven’t

led to substantial political improvements.

In fact, military tensions between the two

are increasing. Despite Chinese Premier

Wen Jiabao’s vague reassurances that his

government will withdraw 1,600-plus

missiles pointing at the island, Taiwan’s

deputy defense minister has said that

the mainland military threat is growing.

Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou just

announced that the country will keep

buying arms internationally, and China’s

defense minister, in a recent meeting with

his U.S. counterpart, said that Taiwan

remains the main point of contention

between the two superpowers.

Although tensions are much lower than

they were under Ma’s pro- independence

predecessor, peaceful reunifi cation—the

holy grail of China’s Taiwan policy—seems

less and less likely: a study published

in September by the Taiwanese United

Daily News revealed that 16 percent of par-

ticipants support full independence while

only 5 percent want reunifi cation with

China. (The same study in 2000 showed

that 12 percent supported independence

STRAITTENSIONS STILL HOT by isaac stone fish

fair and inclusive

elections in Haiti may

prove impossible. When the country

goes to the polls on Nov. 28 to choose a

new president, the post-quake logistics

present huge challenges: some 230,000

dead have to be purged from voter rolls

and 1.3 million more displaced have to

be reregistered.

But an even greater threat is actu-

ally Haiti’s electoral commission itself,

which is under fi re for sidelining 15

candidates without explanation and

excluding the Lavalas party, which

stands in opposition to the current pres-

ident, René Préval. In this case, shoddy

democracy bears a danger that could

have long-reaching consequences. If

A FUTURE RESTS ON ELECTIONSby jacob kushner

CHINA

HAITI

SCOPE INTERNATIONALIST

Haitians don’t trust their government,

they could hinder the reconstruction

process by resisting the government’s

attempts to evict them through eminent

domain, or relocating to a new displace-

ment camp. In Haiti’s history, lesser

things than mass evictions have sparked

riots and brought the country to a stand-

still. Furthermore, international inves-

tors and donors are likely to be skittish

about a government tainted by illegiti-

macy. “Flawed elections now will come

back to haunt the international com-

munity later,” 45 U.S. representatives

recently wrote to Secretary of State Hill-

ary Clinton. Port-au-Prince may end

up with a strong leader. It also needs a

legitimate one.

and 9 percent wanted reunifi cation. )

The Chinese government’s aggressive

territoriality, coupled with its refusal to

undertake meaningful political reform,

fosters the deep-seated hesitance that

characterizes Taiwanese views of unifi ca-

tion : the same poll found that 54 percent

of Taiwanese residents had negative views

of the Chinese government, viewing it as

tyrannical and autocratic. Despite decades

of economic reform in Beijing, the diff er-

ence between the two government’s politi-

cal systems is sharp.

China has long claimed Taiwan as one

of its “core interests”; it has also recently

included the South China Sea on that list,

which also cites Tibet and Xinjiang, and

refers to issues for which it allows no com-

promise . But until China can convince the

Taiwanese that it has their best interest

in mind, it might just have too many core

interests to juggle.

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after the last chil-

ean miner was rescued

from the San José mine, rescue worker

Manuel Gonzalez ascended from the

700-meter-deep drill hole, and Presi-

dent Sebastián Piñera asked what he

was thinking on the way up. Gonzalez

replied: “That hopefully things in Chil-

ean mining will now be diff erent.” This

near-tragedy will surely bring about

changes in Chilean mining. But several

other countries are in line for the next

big accident if they don’t also take a cue.

Topping the list is China, with 2,631

accidental miner deaths last year, fol-

lowed by some former Soviet states

(Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia), as well

as Colombia and Turkey. Statistics

vary, as many accidents are not even

reported, but the International Federa-

media baron rupert

Murdoch is once again

setting his sights on London. His

$54 billion News Corp., which already

owns The Times of London and tabloid

The Sun, now plans to shell out $12 bil-

lion for a full takeover of broadcaster

Sky TV. If the deal happens, media

analyst Claire Enders has predicted

that Murdoch will control half of the

U.K.’s newspaper and TV markets

within a decade.

In a rare show of unity, Murdoch’s

rivals in the British media are clam-

oring for the government to block

the sale. His papers may have backed

David Cameron’s Conservatives

in the election, but Murdoch is not

likely to get the government’s bless-

ing now. For one thing, Cameron’s

party failed to win an outright vic-

tory despite Murdoch’s support. For

another, the decision on whether to

allow the takeover belongs to busi-

ness secretary Vince Cable, a fi ercely

pro-regulation Liberal Democrat

who recently raised a storm by pub-

licly warning that “capitalism takes

no prisoners, and it kills competition

when it can.”

tion of Mine Workers’ Unions estimates

that overall, 12,000 workers die in acci-

dents each year. Mining has always

been a risky activity, but experts blame

lax laws and enforcement, inadequate

worker training, and low investment

in technologies for the unusually high

accident rates in some countries.

Workplace accidents are not the only

worry. In July, the Chinese mining com-

pany Zijin caused a massive acid-waste

spill in the Ting River that poisoned

drinking water for some 60,000 people.

Zijin has been moving to expand into

other nations, such as Peru, which is

a worrisome trend, says Keith Slack, a

senior policy adviser at Oxfam America.

These countries must push for reform.

The next mining disaster is unlikely to

have such a miraculous ending.

LONDON MEDIA TURNS ON ITS BARONby william underhill

BY THE NUMBERS

LIKING LIQUIDITYDebt issuance to emerging

markets skyrocketed in

September, refl ecting a

preference for liquidity by

sovereigns and corporations,

according to a new report from

Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

WHICH COUNTRYWILL SEE THE NEXT MINING DISASTER?

by jimmy langman

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SACRED TEXT. WHY THAT’S WRONG.

AMERICA’S HOLY WRIT

by andrew romano

since winning the republican senate primary in

Delaware last month, Christine O’Donnell has not had

trouble getting noticed. When the Tea Party icon admit-

ted to “dabbl[ing] into witchcraft” as a youngster, the

press went wild. When she revealed that she was “not a

witch” after all, the response was rabid. O’Donnell has

fudged her academic credentials, defaulted on her mort-

gage, sued a former employer, and campaigned against

masturbation, and her eff orts have been rewarded with

round-the-clock coverage. Yet few observers seem to

have given her views on the United States Constitu-

tion the same level of consideration. Which is too bad,

because O’Donnell’s Tea Party take on our found-

ing text is as unusual as her stance on autoeroti-

cism. Except that it could actually have consequences.

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The vibrant water-

color shows a gaming table with three

playing cards, each depicting a diff erent

portrait of the same man. Small fi gures

kneel at the corners pleading, “Papa,

can you help me not be frightened?”

and “Papa, don’t you know I have no

choice?” They are lyrics from the gay

anthem “Papa, Can You Hear Me?” from

the Barbra Streisand fi lm Yentl ; the man

featured on the cards is Lee Kuan Yew,

Singapore’s fi rst prime minister, who is

often described as a father fi gure—albeit

an authoritarian one—to the young

nation. New York–based Singaporean

artist Jimmy Ong incorporated the lyr-

ics to refl ect the anxieties of a generation

of gay men in a city-state where homo-

sexual activity remains a criminal act

punishable by up to two years in prison,

while the card motif is a nod to the

much-debated opening of two casinos

earlier this year.

Ong’s work is a relatively rare example

of a contemporary artist incorporating

Lee’s image, even though Lee has domi-

nated Singapore’s political landscape

since the young nation’s independence

in 1965. Lee stepped down as prime min-

ister in 1990 but has remained involved

in government and holds a cabinet posi-

tion with the title “minister mentor .”

His image has the power to evoke strong

reactions, yet unlike Mao Zedong, whose

image has been embraced by legions of

Chinese artists, Lee has remained a dis-

tant, often taboo subject for many Singa-

porean artists. “I can only speculate that

it is self- censorship at work,” says Ong.

“Even in my artwork I am self- censoring,

like using Yentl’s lyrics in place of my

own voice.”

But just as the 87-year-old Lee has

started in recent interviews to contem-

plate openly his own mortality, some

artists are also beginning to refl ect on

Lee’s life and legacy. Several recent

art exhibitions have used his image

to explore the notion of nationhood,

though never too critically. “Reevalu-

ations are part of anyone’s legacy, but

to do so while someone is still in offi ce

colors the eff ort with all the anxiety of

politics,” says Jason Wee, a Singaporean

artist also based in New York. “Mao is

no longer in offi ce , and Lee still is.”

Wee has been working on a series of

portraits of Lee, using shampoo bottle

caps arranged to create a pixelated eff ect.

Titled No More Tears, the portraits are

a nod to Lee’s rare emotional moment

in 1965, when he cried on television

announcing the separation of Singapore

from Malaysia and Singapore’s future

looked uncertain. Wee has also gone

beyond mere iconographic representa-

tion, examining how deeply the aging

statesman’s infl uence runs over the city-

state’s citizens. In the recent exhibition

Beyond LKY at Singapore’s Valentine

Willie Fine Art Gallery, artists were

asked to refl ect on a Singapore without

Lee . Wee installed a tall, dark, granite

sculpture in the shape of the number

one, inscribed with the words in mem-

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Wee’s No More Tears; Ong’s

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ory of my father, mr. lee, along with

Self-Portrait (Yellow, Green and Red Mr.

Lee) , an ink portrait in which the art-

ist looks like Lee. “I decided on a self-

portrait, but one that shows how little

control I have over my genetic, national,

and ideological paternity,” says Wee.

Others at the exhibition also refl ected on

Lee’s infl uence on Singaporeans, posi-

tive and negative, though many did not

use his iconography.

The British had no qualms about

promoting Sir Stamford Raffl es and

other colonial fi gures when they ruled

Singapore, and to this day a tall, white

statue of the “founder” of colonial Sin-

gapore still stands proud along the Sin-

gapore River. Surprisingly, ever since

the city-state gained independence in

1965, it has continued to celebrate the

names of colonial pioneers on monu-

ments, streets, and bridges, rather than

embrace new modern-day heroes. As

the fi rst generation of political pioneers

has begun to pass on, there have been

occasional calls to celebrate them and

their achievements, but the Singapor-

ean government, and in particular Lee,

has always shied away from anything

that could be construed as creating a

cult of personalities.

Few of Asia’s other longtime leaders

have hesitated using public art to pro-

mote themselves; Philippine President

Ferdinand Marcos had his own bust

carved into a hillside in central Luzon,

and Mao’s image was so pervasive that

it was not only on offi cial buildings,

but also in every single household. Lee

has preferred the nation building to

be carried out in other media, such as

newspapers and textbooks. “The cult of

personality makes him uncomfortable,”

says Tom Plate, author of Conversations

With Lee Kuan Yew. “He thinks it’s tacky.

Until very recently, he didn’t even want

to talk much about aspects of personal-

ity and his personal life.”

Gallery owner Valentine Willie points

out that artists have probably been reti-

cent to use Lee’s image in their works,

because offi cially, the use of any cabinet

minister’s image requires approval from

the Media Development Authority. Yet he

also acknowledged that at his recent exhi-

bition he did not seek any permission nor

did he encounter any problems. Indeed,

some of the works were reproduced sev-

eral times in the state- controlled media,

which could be considered a subtle

endorsement. “The greatest censorship is

self- censorship,” says Willie. “We’ve lived

for so long under a regime where we can’t

do this or that , it’s almost ingrained in our

psyche that we don’t go there.”

That’s defi nitely changing. A fi nalist

for the 2010 Sovereign Asian Art prize,

whose winner will be announced early

next year, is an oil painting in the pop-

art style of a young Lee relaxing with his

family. It is by Ong Hui Har, who tackled

the private side of the political leader in

a one-woman show earlier this year. The

true test will be if and when she and her

colleagues tackle the other side.

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