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From the Los Angeles Times (link), a review of “China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower”: If America’s angst about globalization could be reduced to one word, it would be “China.” Walk around a Wal-Mart Superstore, and every other product is made in China. Ask why Americans […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for sending the following to CDT: Google Trends counts Google searches on a given topic, charts them over time (now only from mid 2004 to the present), and compares the search numbers by top localities. A discussion on the MicroPersuasion Blog about Google Trends is here and Google explains […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian (link): Chinese officials and construction workers yesterday celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, 13 years after work first started on one of the world’s largest and most controversial engineering projects. In a live TV broadcast, workers poured the last of 28 million cubic metres of cement to finish the gargantuan […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): A visit to the construction site of the National Stadium in Beijing is as close as you get in the 21st century to seeing what it must have been like to put up the Great Wall of China. At one point, 7,000 workers were toiling on the stadium, dispatched […]
Read MoreFrom National Public Radio (link): Some 200 million farmers have left behind their families and fields to forge a living in China’s booming cities. The phenomenon has been described as the biggest internal migration in the history of the world. Wu Dexiu is one of these migrants. She and her husband, Tang Qiqing, left their […]
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