He says that beneath all the nationalist rhetoric lies a fundamental power shift in East Asia.
His latest book is called Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift.
So the power shift has happened, but where does TV fit in with the plethora of media choices?
Someone not so happy to see this power shift was Thomas Fischer, chief risk officer, who resigned on January 30th.
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As the trend becomes more pronounced, it is one more indicator of an economic power shift from the west to the east.
Retailers have attempted to cope with this customer power shift by offering rock bottom prices in order to ring up much-needed sales.
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These models grow from a collision of two fundamental trends: First, the general devaluation of media content, and second, a power shift in gatekeeping.
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This power shift inexorably increased the influence of star agents, who subsequently worked the studios for maximum profit for themselves and their celebrity clientele.
This year's power shift could make a bipartisan agreement more likely.
If Bayern's 4-0 win over Barcelona on Tuesday night was supposedly the beginning of a power shift from Spain to Germany, then Dortmund's dominance confirmed it.
The imminent power shift represents a stark change in ideologies: Abbas has long been a conduit of the White House-backed road map to Middle East peace.
Italians will take much persuading that the arrest, on the very day of a power shift in Rome, was a coincidence, even if its significance remains obscure.
"The underdog always gets the easier treatment until the underdog becomes the front-runner, " said Borger, pointing out that SNL skit aired just as that power shift was occurring.
"We've seen the balance of power shift from the financing sources to the entrepreneur, " says Wendy Phillips, a venture capitalist at the Menlo Park office of Advent International.
Still, Bayern manager Jupp Heynckes didn't buy into the narrative of a power shift in European soccer or indeed that Barcelona's remarkable run of success was suddenly hitting a wall.
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But in spite of this power shift, South Korea's senior citizens have just demonstrated their influence by forcing the resignation of one politician who failed to show them respect.
Several members of Congress and environmental leaders addressed the earlier rally, which was held at the conclusion to Power Shift '09, a four-day environmental summit organized by the Energy Action Coalition.
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One other company where a top boss was forced out by an internal power shift: Sirius XM Radio, where Mel Karmazin announced in October that he would step aside as of February 1.
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Feedback will be incorporated into the subsequent event, "Power Shift NZ-Pacific" which runs from the 7th to 9th of December, to ensure the presence of a Pacific perspective to climate change - an issue of extreme significance to the Pacific region.
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The international energy market of the twenty-first century is witnessing an unprecedented period of turmoil and instability, an indication of an indisputable global power shift that holds serious, long-term implications for U.S. national security interests throughout the world.
The outcomes of this Power Shift Pacific: Looking Beyond Disaster Youth Forum, will include the development of action plans and youth projects to be implemented in different communities, as well as the development of a Pacific youth volunteer network enabling an exchange of information between Pacific Island youth living abroad and their island communities.
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Mark Mazower, a British historian at Columbia University, New York, presents his work as a stocktaking: a chance, just as the West is seeing power shift to emerging giants in the East, to ponder how Europeans and Americans crafted the present web of international institutions, from the UN to the World Bank or International Monetary Fund.
What would happen is that effective power would shift, automatically, to those with some permanence.
Take venture capital investment as another indicator of this balance of power tech shift.
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Power may shift in two other directions: abroad and, to a lesser extent, to boutique investment banks.
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And just as important, buying power will shift or spread out to the point where consumers in North America no longer are so central.
This would be a mistake, for unless consumers see fluctuations in prices (especially at peak times), they have no incentive to conserve power or shift their use off-peak.
Mr Priestland has some interesting things to say about why power relationships shift and what happens when they do, but his call for a return to a better yesterday is too glib to be convincing.
Big Data also has the power to shift social norms and perhaps even transform society by sweeping away all the anachronisms of the analog era, such as sexism and class distinctions, and replace them with something entirely new.
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