FP: CCP Setting Up “Cells” at Foreign Universities
At Foreign Policy, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian this week reported on efforts by the Communist Party...
Apr 20, 2018
At Foreign Policy, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian this week reported on efforts by the Communist Party...
Nov 7, 2014
After a consortium led by state-owned China Railway Construction won an uncontested contract to...
Jun 1, 2014
Damien Cave at The New York Times reports that some U.S. companies are finding convenience in...
Apr 21, 2014
Foreign Policy’s Isaac Stone Fish explores the argument, proposed by former Mexican...
Mar 11, 2014
The Economist explains why smuggling iron ore to China has become a popular activity for Mexican...
Jan 23, 2014
In a recent talk at UC San Diego’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies,...
Jan 31, 2011
The Guardian reports and illustrates new data on global carbon emissions which shows China pulling further ahead of the US, almost offsetting the expected dip in emissions caused by the global recession. While US emissions fell...
Jun 6, 2010
Mexico is the latest country to offer Mandarin language classes to help its children get a competitive advantage in the business world. From the Los Angeles Times: The sight of youngsters speaking Chinese in the Mexican...
Jan 23, 2010
Arizona is home to many Mexican immigrants who have illegally crossed the border, but smugglers are now handling increasing numbers of Chinese immigrants, who pay huge sums to get to the U.S. after making the long journey to...
May 3, 2009
Following the involuntary quarantine of Mexican citizens in China, Mexican government representatives have lodged complaints with Beijing. From BBC: Mexican officials said their citizens were being unfairly confined. The Mexican...
May 2, 2009
On his blog, James Fallows gives several examples of Mexican citizens being quarantined in Beijing solely on the basis on their nationality. He says the reports are “based on first-hand reports from people I trust.”...
Feb 8, 2009
Both the Chinese Vice President and Vice Premier are making high-profile visits to Latin America this week. Vice Premier Hui Liangyu will visit Argentina, Ecuador, Barbados and the Bahamas, while Vice President Xi Jinping is...
May 9, 2008
From The Christian Science Monitor: Some Olympiads are born controversial, some achieve controversy, and some have controversy thrust upon them. Though few editions of the modern Olympic Games have been as bitterly contested as...
Aug 3, 2007
An opinion piece in yesterday’s New York Times reveals a China link to the Mexican drug trade: The unusual case of Zhenli Ye Gon, who was arrested in Maryland last week following the discovery of $205 million of alleged drug money in his house in Mexico City, underscores how the same process of global sourcing […]
Sep 10, 2005
From the Guardian: They may be as much a symbol of Mexico as sombreros and cacti, but chillies in the country are starting to lose some of their national flavour in favour of a Chinese tang. Farmers in Mexico are complaining that cheap imported varieties from China now represent nearly half national production of dehydrated […]