A generation's worth of changes on Taiwan, of which Rich discusses three, observed on his most recent trip to the island.
Todays post is my interview with the documentary filmmaker, Richard Cohen. In Mr. Cohen's latest work, "Good Cat in Screenland," two entrepreneurs from Communist China acquire a bankru...
Small companies, generally speaking, should not source product in China. Aside from logistical difficulties, they dont have the volume orders to command signficantly low price points nor even the qua...
This article claims 10,000 Americans hired by Chinese-invested US enterprises, a pittance for a population of over 307 million. The test will be whether PRC Chinese cultivate an ability to manage Ame...
Is Ai Wei-wei soon to become an artist in exile?
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“China supplied the world with very cheap and good-quality rare earths for more than a decade at the cost of depleting its resources and damaging its environment,” Wang Caifeng, who heads the governm...
It appears that the battle over rare earth minerals, involving China and many of its export destinations, including Japan and the United States, has intensified. China cut its rare earths export quot...
An extraordinary presentation by scholar Hans Rosling for the BBC. I include it here for the fascinating, but brief reference to China.
Ive written often on email scams targeting attorneys in the US. A foreign individual, masquerading as a company, persuades an American attorney to deposit what appears to be a genuine bank check for ...
Chinese officialdom continues to thrash wildly in response to the award of the Nobel Prize to a Chinese lawyer/activist, Liu Xiaobo, currently incarcerated. Among the thrashings: threats to foreign g...
Ive not been blogging recently, so Im going to suggest long-time readers make a point of visiting this blog: China Hush.
We start this week off in a comic vein with a great joke I just read in WSJ: The U.S. will try to intensify pressure further on China over its exchange-rate policy after a weekend meeting of the Inte...
Must read: The most recent string of revelations has been bracing. After a plane crash in August killed 42 people in northeast China, officials discovered that 100 pilots who worked for the airline’s...
Jim Oberweis on the exchange rate in this video at Washington Post. As I understand his comments, the only leverage the US administration may have is tariffs. Rising prices in China will, over time, ...
Sharply raising the stakes in a dispute over Japan’s detention of a Chinese fishing trawler captain, the Chinese government has blocked exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in prod...
[With thanks to the Blakemore Foundation. -- Editor] Application Deadline: December 30, 2010 Since 1990, the Blakemore Foundation has awarded over $12.3 million in grants to individuals pursuing prof...
What do you think will happen when this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 1 or this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 2 or this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 3 or this: Urban trans...
Andy Groves op-ed at Bloomberg discusses in an appealing conversational tone, the necessity for American on-shore manufacturing: You could say, as many do, that shipping jobs overseas is no big deal ...
In my (nearly) exalted position as Writer of Blog, I receive press releases from organizations and individuals. Everyone is selling something: a book, a political point of view, world peace and freed...
For those in China who find visa application at US embassies and consulates a difficult and lengthy process: The U.S. Embassy in Beijing, along with four U.S. consulates general across China, is open...
I find this to be a most misleading headline: Chinas Yuan Rises to Highest Level Against Dollar in Modern Era The yuan was quoted at 6.8015 to the dollar in Chinas over-the-counter market Monday afte...
Why was I not surprised to see, once again, the headline, "China Unlikely to Move on Yuan?" Because I have been writing for nearly a DECADE-- and saying it to anyone who will listen since the...
Mingchun Sun, Chief China Economist, Nomura International in Hong Kong here. "There is no way to say there is no bubble..."
Here. With some observations and a video of what may be replacement workers for remaining strikers crossing the picketline here. Interesting comments under the video here.
Does this demonstrate the commonly held belief that Chinese are willing to take the risks Westerners are not? Notice the safety harness? Apparently the father, leader of the troupe, has high hopes fo...
Over the past 8+ years, this blog has welcomed readers from the White House, State Department, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Commerce and numerous Virginia-bas...
One heard very recently of Chinese confidence in the Euro, as opposed to the US dollar, and the not-so subtle threat to re-allocate Chinas foreign reserve holdings from more heavily US-weighted to so...
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