Video: “Death and Taxes”
Originally posted in 2011, this Ming’en Media video explains just how much every...
Jan 21, 2015
Originally posted in 2011, this Ming’en Media video explains just how much every...
Nov 12, 2014
After breaking U.S. IPO records in September, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba this week made...
Jul 25, 2014
CDT has translated a Ming’en Media (明恩传媒) video from 2012 that looks at opacity in China’s...
Mar 27, 2014
While Americans eat nearly twice as much meat individually as their Chinese counterparts every...
Jan 9, 2014
As the Year of the Water Snake comes to a close, the South China Morning post notes the...
Dec 12, 2013
According to the PEW Research Center, official corruption is considered a “very big...
Nov 28, 2013
Kim Severson at the New York Times reports that unusually high pecan consumption in China,...
Nov 21, 2013
Local government seizure of farmland is a major cause of social unrest in the Chinese countryside,...
Sep 19, 2013
After China’s infamous air pollution attracted much international attention last winter,...
Aug 14, 2012
Despite Wal-Mart’s turbulent run in China, the Arkansas based company has now received approval for its previous bid to raise its stake in an online supermarket. From Reuters: Wal-Mart had said in February it would raise its...
Jan 18, 2012
With news that mainland Chinese gold imports hit a record high in November, The Wall Street Journal reports that Chinese demand for gold has propped up global prices as consumers and investors alike stock up on the precious...
Nov 15, 2011
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a new column, CDT Money, a once-a-week roundup of business and economic news from China. We’ll be giving an overview of business and economic trends from the...
Nov 8, 2011
Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, visited Wal-Marts across China and has written a lengthy piece for The Atlantic looking at the “interactive”...
Mar 29, 2011
The Financial Times’ beyondbrics blog suggests that rising wages in China could spell the end of the cheap, plentiful manufactured goods to which Western consumers (or overconsumers) have become accustomed. $11 for a pair...
Jun 24, 2010
From the New York Times: For years, Chinese leaders looked to the millions of poor workers from the country’s interior as the engine of a roaring export economy. They would move to coastal provinces, toil in factories and churn...
Oct 15, 2009
From Asia Times Online: As world leaders at recent gatherings such as the Group of 20 countries and the International Monetary Fund pledge to rebalance world trade, with the implication of a stronger Chinese currency, Western...
Aug 22, 2009
From AP: In her Vans cap, Quiksilver shirt and Adidas shorts, 19-year-old Terry Zhong is a walking checklist of sports brands as she sets out on a weekly shopping trip with a 500-yuan ($73) budget. Global economic gloom has...
Jul 4, 2009
A government researcher today recommended that only boosting domestic consumption would help China recover from the global financial crisis and international demand is still weak. From Bloomberg: China has to boost domestic...