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Willy Lam writes that China’s recent diplomatic foray into Latin America is presenting a challenge to the US in its own backyard. During his recent trip to the region, President Hu pledged to invest $100 billion in Latin American countries over the next ten years, up from $1.04 billion invested by Chinese state-owned enterprises last […]
Read MoreAnother article, from Reuters, about China’s search for natural resources in Africa: “Crumbling sport stadiums still stand in many African capitals, the enduring symbols of China’s Cold War courtship of the world’s poorest continent during the 1960s and 1970s. That was before the communist giant embraced capitalism and transformed itself into probably the world’s fastest […]
Read MoreThe U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission held a conference recently which discussed “the devastation Chinese competitors are inflicting on U.S. industries, from kitchenware and car tires to electronic circuit boards,” according to a report in Business Week. The full transcript from the hearings is available on the USCC website. In summing up the hearings, […]
Read MoreAlan Stone, a professor of law and psychiatry at Harvard, wrote a commentary in Psychiatric Times about the psychiatric abuse of Falun Gong members in China. Dr. Stone was appointed as a member of a task force organized by the World Psychiatric Association and responsible for investigating political misuse of psychiatry in China, including against […]
Read MoreForeign TV companies, including HBO, Nickelodeon and National Geographic, are moving quickly to take advantage of new relaxed rules in China allowing foreign investment in content production: “Most of the partnerships are seizing on new rules that go into effect next week allowing foreign firms to own up to 49 percent of joint ventures engaged […]
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