Can China Be a Global Climate Leader?
Following President Trump’s announcement early this month that he would be withdrawing the...
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LatestAuthorities Attempt to Manage Rising Labor Unrest
In recent years, China’s slowing economy has led to a steady growth in labor unrest, with...
Service Sector Gaining Steam in Chinese Economy
Bettina Wassener at the New York Times looks at the private service sector of Chinese economy, its...
Photos: Rising Above China
At Panos Pictures (via Howard French), a set of 63 photographs by Kacper Kowalski shows Chinese industry, agriculture, communities and development from the air: ‘The person who coined the term cityscape must have had China...
iPhone 5 Sets Accessory Makers Scrambling
While Foxconn has reportedly gone to extremes to meet anticipated demand for the new iPhone 5, Apple’s announcement on Wednesday was the starting pistol for other production lines in China as accessory designers finally...
Stephen Mihm and Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Parallel Universes
In Time Magazine, historians of America and China write about commonalities they see between China today and America in the mid-19th century: While we’re too aware of how regularly — and speedily — bold forecasts about...
China’s Industrial Output May Grow at Weakest Pace Since 1999
More bad news about the Chinese economy: Bloomberg predicts that the country’s industrial production — the total amount of industrial products and services — will have grown at its slowest rate in nine years:...
Can China Reform Itself? – Joseph Kahn
The New York Times looks at the food and export crisis from the perspective of U.S. industry 100 years ago:
Like America’s industrializing economy a century ago, China’s
The Birth and Rebirth of Shenzhen – Michael Schuman
From Time Asia:
If Shenzhen can leap from assembling basic products with low-wage, poorly skilled labor to nurturing the innovations of lavishly paid talent, it could blaze a trail
Photo Series: The Unbearable Heaviness of Industry – Zhou Hai
From Zhouhai.com:
Industry provides the impetus for social development. The industrial stablishments upon which modern civilization is built-such as steel-making,imposes
Second Thoughts – George Wehrfritz
From Newsweek:
Steel is the measure of an industrial economy. Or so thought Chairman Mao when, to achieve his utopian Great Leap Forward in 1958, he ordered the masses to quit their
Frederik Balfour and Brian Bremner: Too Many Factories?
From Business Week:
…Even as China’s leadership breathes a sigh of relief, the outsize profits of recent years appear to be history, given all the new plants being built.
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