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Asia's tiger economies have a strong high-tech base but are not noted for their scientists.
At the very moment in the 1960s when Asia's tiger economies were beginning to take off, for example, the Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal, wrote his The Asian Drama to diagnose the causes of Asian poverty and to explain why its poverty appeared to be ineradicable.
As a result, over the past two decades, policymakers’ attention has shifted from trying to understand Asia’s so-called tiger economies toward recreating the successful clusters of Silicon Valley, Boston’s Route 128, Taiwan’s Hsinchu Park, South Korea’s Daedeok Science Town, and Israel’s Silicon Wadi.
Britain might well have been better off had Churchill held power earlier, but that would have meant costly rearmament, which was unacceptable so long as there was a chance that Hitler proved to be a paper tiger.
But when the Balkan War presented the first test for proving the claim, NATO showed all the determination and muscle of a paper tiger.
The government knows that it has a political tiger by the tail, but refuses to acknowledge it, either inside China or outside.
Whether China will prove to be a paper dragon of little military substance or a crouching tiger with sharp claws remains unresolved.
No matter how hard a tiger mom pushes, not every student can finish first (unless, of course, we make everyone “top of the class”).
Escalation of the crisis by the US at this stage would merely play into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hands and expose the West as a paper tiger.
Given India’s accommodating rhetoric, it is easy to view the country as a paper tiger.
If the Security Council fails to agree on new sanctions – which is likely, given Chinese and Russian objections – it would be exposed as a paper tiger.
Another reason is that V. Zhirinovsky proved to be a paper tiger, while the communists now appear to be not so bad after all.
For large countries, the threat of sanctions has always been a paper tiger.
Many new Russians, working like machines 16 hours a day, seven days a week, look at their more relaxed Western counterparts with the contempt often found in the tiger economies of Asia.
Her father lifted South Korea out of poverty and turned it into an economic tiger.
The incipient tiger in the Indian economy will be released.
In Tunisia, the notorious extravagance of Ben Ali’s extended family included a caged tiger and the use of a private jet to fly in ice cream from St. Tropez.
This is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle returning from its mission: not hunting down terrorists or spying on foreign lands, but monitoring populations of rhinos and scouting for tiger poachers.
Caging a tiger will not destroy a vampire.
Second, the Security Council now looks like a paper tiger because its authority was successfully challenged by a worn-out regime.
In the past few decades, Japan has become a sleeping tiger.
The Gulf monarchies are trying to ride this tiger militarily against Iran.
If the US gives negotiations one more serious try (a credible offer and a genuine willingness to engage), gets rebuffed, and then does nothing, it will effectively declare itself a paper tiger.
Riding the nationalist tiger is a tricky issue for governments everywhere.
And the EU, as a highly sophisticated paper tiger, would be no more attractive.
That befits the year of the tiger in Chinese astrology – a year in which China roared by ratcheting up tensions with neighbors from Japan to India by escalating territorial feuds.
In pondering this question, the case of Mexico-neither an economic tiger like China or Singapore nor a sluggard like many African and Carribean countries-may be especially instructive.
According to a Chinese proverb, “To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.”
As the money rolled in, wages rose, real-estate prices reached to near-Parisian levels, and people fooled themselves into thinking that Kazakhstan had become Asia’s latest tiger.
Ireland, Europe’s (Celtic) tiger over the last decade, grew in part due to large credit inflows into its “Banking Real Estate Complex.”
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