My assignment today is to comment on Community Issues that are likely to emerge during thetransition to a bioeconomy. There are many issues and some myths that are drivers of change inthis transition. World hunger, biotechnology, food versus fuel, and indirect land use; organic,natural, local...

"China's transformation from a poor and underdeveloped country into a global market power has profoundly altered its socioeconomic power relations with the other countries in the Greater China region, namely, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Indeed, this economic shift has resulted in the massive flow of...