Paulina Hartono is a graduate of UC Berkeley.
From International Herald Tribune: New calculations by the World Bank, suggesting that the Chinese economy may not be as large as previously thought, are setting off a debate among economists over whether the calculations are accurate and what they should mean for the West’s currency policies toward China. The World Bank issued preliminary figures Monday […]
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: The World Bank has come up with a new way to look at the relative clout of economies, and it turns out most previous estimates have exaggerated the size of China’s and India’s economies by roughly 40 per cent. The new, and smaller, China still ranks behind the United States […]
Read MorePeter Winter is a junior majoring in International Relations and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He published this article in last month’s US_China Today website: Text messages pass along more than just knock-knock jokes in China; to the displeasure of some leaders, they are also a popular way to […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a 100 million U.S. dollars loan to help develop an efficient and effective emergency management system for China’s railway system. The Railway Safety Enhancement Project will also receive 40 million dollars from the Ministry of Railways to complete the funding requirement, ADB said in a statement […]
Read MoreFrom Under the Jacaranda Tree blog: Wang Dan, a Chinese dissident and student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, has published an article at the Independent Chinese Pen Centre in which he discusses the political implications of the Tigergate Incident, the Yilishen Scandal and the Chang’e Moon Photograph Saga. … The following is my […]
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