



NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair has told Yale University graduates that countries such as China and India are becoming more powerful and partnerships will be needed to avoid conflict. Blair, the Class Day speaker Sunday, said that for the first time in many centuries, power is moving East. In next two decades the two countries will undergo industrialization four times the size of the United States and at five times the speed, he said. Americans and Europeans must forge partnerships rather than compete for power, he said. read more
NECN | May 25, 2008

