As we wrap up our annual membership drive, we thank you for renewing your membership. If you received an e-mail announcing this Newsletter, your membership is active. We hope you visit the ICA website and take advantage of the many new features built in to your new MyICA "Communities" pages. The site includes several new social networking functions designed to further your membership experience. Blogging is one of these features.

Congratulations to Andrew K.P. Leung in Hong Kong, our first blogger! Here's an excerpt of his post; log in to your account online and look for his post under Blogs on the Organizational Tools list.

 Ten years on after 9/11, the world has dramatically changed in more ways than one

On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, it is sobering to reflect on how the world has changed almost beyond recognition in many ways beyond terrorism.

First, the unipolar world is fast fading if not completely gone. The United States is still in a position to lead but her capacity to do so is much constrained as diminished financial resources, military overreach, divisions amongst Western allies, the rise of the Emerging Markets, the emergence of nonstate actors including terrorists, and global issues like climate change, epidemics, and nuclear proliferation, all underline the realities of an interconnected, interdependent, and multipolar world (1).

Second, global economic gravitas is clearly shifting from the West to the East. What used to be peripheral countries in the late 18th century have become today's "emerging economies". They now collectively contribute almost three-quarters of global growth, while their share of economic output is projected to account for almost 60% of total world output by 2030 (2).

Third, as a developing country, China has become the world's second largest economy and is rising as a superpower. Nevertheless, China's per-capita income in purchasing power parity terms will still be trailing behind the United States at least by midcentury if not beyond (3). What is more, during this trajectory, though China has become increasingly convergent with the global norm economically, she remains largely divergent politically. There is a growing, classic security dilemma between the United States as the extant sole superpower and China as a rising challenger. Read more at http://www.icahdq.org/cgi-shl/twserver.exe?run:memonly:/members/myICA/

Visit Andrew Leung's website at: www.andrewleunginternationalconsultants.com

On the ICA members LinkedIn group: CONCENTRATION OF MEDIA OWNERSHIP IS CONSIDERED AS THE THREAT TO MEDIA FREEDOM AND PLURALITY OF MEDIA.  Read more at... Our Linked In Group