"What we are seeing China is that wages are gradually converging to those levels in the U.S.and Europe, but this convergence is going to take a very long time."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

There are reminders of what is at stake,with the U.N.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"I would not get into specifics, but what I understand is that people who have been arrested are U.S nationals, but some of them of Pakistan origin, some of them of other descent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"How do we get creative and think not just of what they have done, but what they are going to do next and next and next?" But the homeland security secretary says the U.S.government must also take care not to intrude on citizen privacy as it ramps up its defense of the worldwide electronic network government agencies, businesses and individuals increasingly depend on.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11