Video: “Death and Taxes”
Originally posted in 2011, this Ming’en Media video explains just how much every...
consumption
China’s Online Sales to Surpass Rest of World’s
After breaking U.S. IPO records in September, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba this week made...
Video: “Where Does the Taxpayers’ Money Go?”
CDT has translated a Ming’en Media (明恩传媒) video from 2012 that looks at opacity in China’s...
Is China’s Pork Consumption Hurting The West?
While Americans eat nearly twice as much meat individually as their Chinese counterparts every...
HK: New Year Red Envelopes Kill 16,000 Trees a Year
As the Year of the Water Snake comes to a close, the South China Morning post notes the...
New Rules Aim to Contain Official Extravagance
According to the PEW Research Center, official corruption is considered a “very big...
No Pecan Pie? Thank China, Rain and Pigs
Kim Severson at the New York Times reports that unusually high pecan consumption in China,...
Is Land Reform Finally Coming to China?
Local government seizure of farmland is a major cause of social unrest in the Chinese countryside,...
China Plan May be ‘Beginning of the End of Coal’
After China’s infamous air pollution attracted much international attention last winter,...
China Approves Wal-Mart E-Commerce Deal
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...
China Welcomes Golden Year of The Dragon
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...
CDT Money: Indicators: Slowdown?
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...
Orville Schell: How Walmart Is Changing China
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”...
The End of Cheap, as Chinese Labour Dries Up
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...
China’s Export Economy Begins Turning Inward
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...
China’s Rich Throw Lifeline To West
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...
Global Brands Turn To China’s Young Amid Slump
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...
China Needs Consumption for Recovery, Researcher Says
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...
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