Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Japan's Abe Stepping Down

Japan's pro-Indian Prime Minister Abe is stepping down.

Well, that's too bad, as he had a strong pro-India tilt. The Leftists who are looking to succeed him do not, and are particularly sensitive about India's N-program.

1 comment:

habc said...

ot - At Frankfurt Motor Show, weeding out Chinese knockoffs

BMW is going after Shuanghuan, a Chinese carmaker that hopes to break into Europe, on charges that its sport utility vehicle, the CEO, is a copy of BMW's popular SUV, the X5. The German carmaker has filed a lawsuit in Munich to prohibit the sale of the CEO in Germany.

Shuanghuan's European importer defied BMW by exhibiting the car on the first day of the Frankfurt International Motor Show on Tuesday, providing a vivid glimpse of the low-grade war over intellectual property rights between China and the West on goods ranging from designer handbags to computer chips.

"We did not like it," the chief executive of Bayerische Moteren Werke, Norbert Reithofer, said during an interview here.