Photo: At a trade show for Filipino products in Shanghai, by monkeyking
At a trade show for Filipino products in Shanghai, by monkeyking
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Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
China says more than 60% of recent land deals are illegal – Interfax
From Interfax: More than 60% of all recent land deals in China are illegal, while the figure is as high as 90% in several cities, the central government said in a report yesterday calling for a prompt investigation into developers and local governments. In a warning posted on its website Wednesday, the Ministry of Land […]
Read MoreThe value of China’s emerging middle class – McKinsey Quarterly
From The McKinsey Quarterley: * As global companies have entered China, many of them focused mainly on serving its urban-affluent consumers. However, if these companies continue to use this strategy they risk missing the real opportunity”the emerging middle class. * During the next 20 years we expect a huge middle class, with enormous spending power, […]
Read MoreChinese Official Reappears, but Mystery Persists – Edward Cody
From the Washington Post: Suddenly Huang Ju was back, with the familiar quizzical eyebrows arching from behind large wire-framed glasses, sitting alongside other members of the Chinese Communist Party’s supreme policymaking body, the Politburo’s nine-member Standing Committee. Huang’s return, which was broadcast on official television Monday evening and reported prominently in the next day’s People’s […]
Read MoreA Sea of Sand Is Threatening China’s Heart – Joseph Kahn
From the New York Times: China’s own favorite military strategist, Sun Tzu, surely would have warned against letting two mighty enemies, the Tengger and the Badain Jaran, form a united front. Yet a desert pincer is squeezing this struggling oasis town, and China’s long campaign to cultivate its vast arid northwest is in retreat. An […]
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