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Asia Media reviews a new book, “Understanding China and India: Security Implications for the United States and the World” by Rollie Lal: One of the pitfalls in the making of United States foreign policy is that often too little weight is accorded to the concerns of other countries. It is important to understand why countries […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Some 11 million PCs in over 110,000 Internet caf√©s. If you’re Xu (Ian) Yang and your job is to sell Chinese on using computers with Intel chips, those numbers will surely grab your attention. In late 2003, Yang, the Beijing co-general manager of Asia-Pacific for Intel Corp. (INTC), was in the northeastern […]
Read MoreIn the Washington Post, Orville Schell reviews Mao’s Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals: It has been enthralling to read Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals’s exhaustively researched new book on China’s Cultural Revolution — a sensation akin to returning to a Chinese painting in which a mist-shrouded landscape has miraculously cleared to reveal […]
Read MoreTwo articles about China’s interests in the Persian Gulf region. First, from AP, an article about a renewed oil contract between China and Iraq first negotiated under Saddam Hussein: China and Iraq are reviving a 1997 deal worth US$1.2 billion (‚Ǩ850 million) signed by Beijing and Saddam Hussein’s government to develop an Iraqi oil field, […]
Read MoreThe Financial Times announced that China Shakes the World: A Titan’s Rise and Troubled Future — and the Challenge for America, by James Kynge, won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year: A “gripping” exploration of the economic and business implications of China’s breakneck growth, China Shakes the World, has won […]
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