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Recent testimony by Murray Scot Tanner (of the Rand Corporation) in front of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, about “Chinese Government Responses to Rising Social Unrest” is available here for...
Read MoreFrom the Economist: Can China”population 1.3 billion”really be running short of people? In many of the most important parts of its booming economy, the answer, increasingly, is yes. Though China has a vast pool of unskilled labour, firms in the south now complain that they cannot recruit enough cheap factory and manual workers. The market […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT: When it comes to business there are shakes and quakes in the status quo, and then there are tectonic shifts. China and India joining hands easily tops the economic Richter scale. “India and China can together reshape the world order,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India said in New Delhi as Prime […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Economic Times: China called Japan’s plan to allow gas exploration in disputed waters a serious provocation on Thursday, but sought to rein in anti-Japanese sentiment that sparked violent protests last weekend. Japan avoided escalating the war of words, saying dialogue was needed to resolve the feuds. China also called for talks. See […]
Read MoreFrom the Japan Times: As the Chinese economy continues to power ahead, everyone in the country is pleased with the visible improvement in standards of living, but very few people are counting the cost in terms of the loss of China’s historical legacy, the growing sense of alienation and the loss of the cohesiveness that […]
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