The myth of 1.3 billion cans of Coke (Asia Times)

According to Chi Lo in his new book, The Misunderstood China: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Bamboo Curtain, great ignorance of China’s economic issues runs unchecked in current world discourse, the implicit danger of which is that, should our misconceptions of China today be enacted in the form of, say, “raising anti-dumping and safeguard measures against Chinese imports and labeling China as a rogue trader”, as Lo writes, it would be “unfair and dangerous to the global trading system”.

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