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The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer Prize today for their reporting on China which, “chronicled the effects of China’s rush to capitalism in a series of front page articles.” For today only, their China coverage is available free on their website. UPDATE (4/17/07): Links and summaries of the WSJ’s China reporting can be found […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Is it risky for a big borrower to offend its largest lender? China, which is the subject of increasing protectionist pressures in the United States, is not only the largest contributor to the large American trade deficit. It is also the largest lender to the United States. Last year, when […]
Read MoreCarl Minzner, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote the following op-ed for Ripon Society (“The conscience of the Republican Party”): While the grinding Iraq war currently dominates the attention of the American public and government, China’s steady rise in economic and political influence is the single event that will reshape international politics […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, an update on the laundering of North Korean money in Macau banks: The investigations, concluded 20 months ago, also produced a money trail that led to the Chinese gambling enclave of Macao, where American investigators concluded that criminals linked to North Korea were laundering their earnings. This effort produced the […]
Read MoreTime Europe tells the stories of illegal immigrants from China who make it in England, and those who don’t. From “Dreams of Leaving”: Why do so many middle-class Chinese risk a perilous crossing, mountains of debt and years of grueling labor to start over in a strange land? Life in Fujian is not one of […]
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