Council On Foreign Relations: ‘Even Slowing China Is Fueling Global Growth’ [???]

I find this chart from the Council on Foreign Relations‘ Geo-Graphics, the commentary about it, and the apparent underlying assumptions confusing. The chart shows that from 2013-2016, China, with GDP steady at 8% will make a larger and larger contribution to …

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Roubini And Chovanec On China’s Economic Stress Points

Nouriel Roubini, co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, sits down with Patrick Chovanec, associate professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing, China for a discussion on the likelihood of a hard landing in China and consider the short and …

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‘Chinese Labor, Cheap No More’

China is running fast toward a wall of labor problems. In her op-ed, ‘Chinese Labor, Cheap No More,’ Michelle Dammon Loyalka very ably summarizes the issues and challenges. And, explains why a host of our problems with China may be …

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Chinese Tycoon Murder By Cat Meat Hotpot

I have been so busy lately following variable annuity insurance policies in China and trying to understand why the ‘Lewis Curve’ doesn’t explain Chinese rural migration that I got behind on watching the Colbert Report. While catching up on back …

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More ‘Birth Tourism’–Pregnant Mainland Chinese Women Go To Hong Kong

I knew that the ‘one-child policy’ has had unintended consequences (like China’s demographic time bomb). And I knew that wealthy Chinese have established residency in the U.S., moved the wife to Malibu, and gotten to work on building some family …

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Xi Jinping In Iowa–He’s Not Nikita Khrushchev, Thank Goodness

A few years ago, Vice President Xi said:  “a few foreigners, with full bellies, who have nothing better to do than try to point fingers at our country…. China does not export revolution, hunger or poverty; nor does China cause …

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PLA Major General Peng Liyuan–Great Singer And, Oh Yes, Xi Jinping’s Wife

With Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to the U.S., there has been a spate of media coverage and commentary, both in here and in China. Having viewed about as much as I can handle, I am guessing that I know …

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‘China Forum’ Interviews From ‘The U.S.-China Policy Foundation’

The U.S.-China Policy Foundation appears to be again ramping up its activities, especially, China Forum with its weekly interviews of top China experts. Excellent. Learn more about China Forum and the Foundation, below. Or go straight the ‘uscpf’s channel’ on YouTube for …

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Oxford Analytica On The U.S. Pivot To Asia

Oxford Analytica considers the shift in U.S. policy toward Asia. Among the best I’ve seen condensed into a few minutes. Please have a look, and let me know what you think.

Council On Foreign Relation’s Liz Economy: Clearest Head On Chinese Foreign Affairs?

Liz Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, may be current holder of the title: Clearest Head on Chinese Foreign Affairs.