From the Financial Express: With it’s economy surging ahead, China is overtaking the United States in consuming the resources of the world, a research institute has claimed. “Although the United States has long consumed the lion’s share of the world’s resources, this situation is changing fast as the Chinese economy surges ahead, overtaking the United […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Shanghai skyline BBC Television’s flagship political discussion programme, Question Time, will broadcast a special edition from Shanghai on Thursday 10 March. The debate, including a range of voices both critical and supportive of Chinese government policies, will be in English with David Dimbleby in the chair as normal. Chinese Government spokesman Liu […]
Read MoreFrom Business Standard: In my last column I delineated the sources of the Chinese miracle: high savings, the growth of labour-intensive small-scale non-state rural export industries in town and village and individual enterprises, a massive increase in infrastructure, a large unilateral liberalisation of foreign trade, and the market determination of nearly all domestic commodity prices. […]
Read MoreFrom Chinanews.cn: As part of China’s National Education Science tenth Five-year Plan, the working group “Research into Equity Issues in Chinese Higher Education” announced that a widening education gap exists between China’s rural and urban populations. China’s rural areas have a far higher proportion of residents with low and middle education levels than do China’s […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: Chinese grain farmers should be enjoying the best of times. Farmers’ incomes rose last year following the first spike in grain prices in years while Beijing cut farm taxes and introduced subsidies, all during a bumper crop year. Nevertheless, industry analysts say China still faces an uphill battle keeping restive farmers on […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: China will rely on oil for more than half of its energy by 2010, when net imports will rise to between 180 million tons and 200 million tons of oil a year, a Chinese official said. “China should import more energy – that’s the picture for oil and gas,” Gao Shixian, director of […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Every year both citizens and tourists purchase millions of cheap pirated and counterfeit goods in China. Although this practice saves the individual shopper some money, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce claims that it costs the American industry over $200 billion a year. The Chamber of Commerce has asked the administration […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: If the 20th was the American century, then the 21st belongs to China. It’s that simple, Ted C. Fishman says, and anyone who doubts it should take his whirlwind tour of the world’s fastest-developing economy. The numbers are staggering. From 1982 through 2002, the United States economy grew at an […]
Read MoreFrom The Associated Press, via MSNBC: Latest in long series of deadly explosions in troubled industry China – A gas explosion in a coal mine in China’s northeast killed at least 203 miners, the government said Tuesday, in the deadliest such disaster reported since communist rule began in 1949. The explosion Monday afternoon at the […]
Read MoreFrom the Cox News Service: Although the Chinese Communist Party came to power promising a social revolution, it has not differed from the several millennia of dynasties that preceded it in one regard: rigid control of information. Just as the emperors ruled by issuing edicts to the masses below and ensured obedience by keeping them […]
Read MoreFrom Daily Yomiuri On-Line: (Thanks to Professor Daniel Lynch for this link.) The Senkaku Islands, a group of islands in the East China Sea, are Japanese territory. Therefore, the government had every right to put a private...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: A Chinese company’s plan to acquire I.B.M.’s personal computer division is just one example of current Chinese efforts to buy or build recognizable brand names in the United States, says Oded Shenkar, professor of international business at the Fisher College of Business of Ohio State University and the author of […]
Read MoreFrom A Glimpse of the World: All Things Considered, February 12, 2005 ¬∑ Author Ted C. Fishman says American consumers have saved far more by purchasing cheap Chinese-made goods than they have from Bush administration tax cuts. Fishman’s new book is China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Affects America and the World.
Read MoreFrom AFP, via News.com.au: Once banned as a bourgeois luxury, pet ownership is becoming big business in China with one in every nine Chinese now owning a dog, the Chinese state press reported today. China’s growing dog population has reached 150 million, with experts predicting that the market for dog food and accessories could reach […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Although the yuan is not yet fully convertible, it has been increasingly in circulation in neighboring regions in recent years. As an international financial center close to the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong witnesses the most frequent use of the yuan. In the “2004 Blue Book of Finance – China: Banking and […]
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