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China’s Rise:
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US Presses China Over
Internet Filtering
(AP, Jun. 22, 2009) Washington
has expressed concern to Beijing
over its new effort to censor Internet use and its possible impact on trade
and access to information, the U.S. Embassy said.
China Holds Firm on Software
Filter, U.S. Firms Say
(New York Times, Jun. 19, 2009) American computer
makers say the Chinese government has not backed down from a requirement that
Internet censorship software be preinstalled on all computers sold in China
after July 1.
China Says Unpopular
Filtering Software Optional
(AP, Jun. 16, 2009) China appeared to cave in to
public pressure by announcing that computer users are not required to install
Internet-filtering software.
English-Language Chinese
Newspaper Breaks Silence on Tiananmen Crackdown (New York
Times, Jun. 5, 2009) The articles never expressly said what happened in and
around the square 20 years ago. They implicitly endorsed the official verdict
that suppression of the protests was necessary to pave the way for China’s
recent prosperity.
Taiwan President Tells China
to Face Up to June 4
(Reuters, Jun. 4, 2009) The president of Taiwan told Beijing
to face up to the truth about the Tiananmen Square
crackdown 20 years ago, a departure from his usual conciliatory tone.
To Shut Off Tiananmen Talk,
China Blocks Sites
(New York Times, Jun. 3, 2009) As a military
crackdown’s anniversary nears, censors have blocked access to Twitter,
Hotmail and live.com.
Hundreds in Hong Kong
Protest to Mark Tiananmen
(AFP, Jun. 1, 2009) Thousands of protesters
marched through Hong Kong on Sunday to commemorate the crackdown on pro-democracy
demonstrations in Beijing 20 years ago,
including one of the leaders from Tiananmen Square.
Yuan May Be Reserve Currency
by 2020—China Official
(Reuters, May 20, 2009) In the latest
advertisement of China's currency ambitions, an official suggested that the yuan could make up more than 3 percent of global foreign
exchange reserves by 2020.
China to Boost IMF Funding
through SDR Bond
(Reuters, May 10, 2009) China will invest in a bond
denominated in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as
part of efforts to increase the resources of the International Monetary Fund,
a senior central bank official said.
China Launches New
English-Language Newspaper
(AP, Apr. 20, 2009) A new English-language paper
published by China's Communist Party hit newsstands--part of
Beijing's efforts to raise its profile on the global stage and find an
international audience for the party line.
China Releases Human Rights
Plan
(New York Times, Apr. 14, 2009) China’s cabinet released what it called a
human rights action plan, a lengthy document promising to improve the
protection of civil liberties, which are often neglected and sometimes
systematically violated in China.
Exports Down Sharply for 2nd
Month in China
(New York Times, Mar. 12, 2009) China’s exports
plunged by a record 25.7 percent last month, but investment spending surged
as the country’s stimulus program took hold.
In China, No Plans to
Emulate West’s Way
(New York Times, Mar. 10, 2009) China’s
second-ranking Communist Party official said that
China would never adopt a multiparty political system, separation of powers,
a bicameral legislature or an independent judiciary.
Wen Warns Economic Crisis
Spreading in China
(AP, Mar. 1, 2009) Premier Wen
Jiabao warned that the impact of the global
financial crisis was still spreading in China and the country faces the
long and arduous task of combating its effects.
China’s ‘Soft-Power’
Strategy Threatened by Obama, Slow Growth
(Bloomberg, Feb. 17, 2009) Now China’s gains as a
regional partner and potential counter to U.S. influence are threatened by a
slowdown in growth and President Barack
Obama’s pledge to reverse Bush-era policies that
diminished America’s authority.
Global Crisis Takes Toll on
China As Exports, Imports Plunge By
Ariana Eunjung Cha (Washington Post, Feb. 12, 2009) China's exports dropped 17.5
percent and imports plunged 43 percent in January from the same month a year
earlier, underscoring just how quickly its once-white-hot economy is slowing
down and adding to the threat of further unemployment and social unrest.
China Delivers Human Rights
Report to UN; Amnesty Leads Critics
(Bloomberg, Feb. 9, 2009) China presents a report on human
rights in the country to the United Nations as groups such as Amnesty
International said the submission isn’t thorough enough.
China’s Official Data Mask
Severity of Slump
(AP, Feb. 6, 2009) The government says the
economy grew by 6.8 percent in the final quarter of 2008, but that is based
on an outdated system that measures growth against the same period a year
earlier.
Chinese TV Airs Protester
Throwing Shoe at Premier
(Washington Post, Feb. 4, 2009) Chinese state
broadcaster aired the full news footage of a protester throwing a shoe at
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
during a speech in Britain,
an unusual step given the state-controlled media's routine censorship of
incidents embarrassing to China.
China: Cautiously Optimistic
on Economy
(AP, Jan. 28, 2009) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo brought cautious
optimism to the World Economic Forum, predicting that his country will
achieve its target of 8 percent economic growth this year despite the global
financial meltdown.
China’s Economy Slowed
Sharply in 4th Quarter
(AP, Jan. 22, 2009) China's economic slump deepened
in the fourth quarter as the impact of the global crisis spread, adding to
the threat of more heavy job losses and possible unrest.
China’s Income Gap Widens As
Economy Slows
(AP, Jan. 16, 2009) The long-standing, politically
sensitive wealth gap between China's
citydwellers and its farmers is widening as the
economy slows.
China Aims to Silence Reform
Call
(BBC, Jan. 12, 2009) Signatories to the Charter
08 document have been detained, questioned by the police and put under
pressure at work.
China Braces for a Turbulent
2009
(The Age, Jan. 3, 2009) Is it time to dust off
predictions of the downfall of the Chinese Communist Party? No. But it could
easily be the most difficult year since the Tiananmen "incident" of
1989.
Will Digital Dissent Win in
Iran and China?
(Editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Jun. 24,
2009) Not every digital battle for freedom will be won. China may yet get its software filter while Iran
has largely suppressed both the protesters and most of their digital links to
one another and to the world. At least, though, the world now knows of this
suppression of ideas and actions.
Beijing Adds Curbs on Access
to Internet By Keith Bradsher
(New York Times, Jun. 26, 2009) It is the latest
move in what the ministry calls an antipornography
campaign that many China experts see as a
harbinger of a broader crackdown on freedom of expression and dissent.
Chinese Dissident Charged
with Subversion By Keith Bradsher (New York Times,
Jun. 25, 2009) One of China’s best-known dissidents, Liu Xiaobo,
has been arrested for “activities aimed at subversion,” state media and human
rights groups said, in the latest sign of a hardening of government policy
toward dissent.
As China Stirs Economy, Some
See Protectionism By Keith Bradsher (New York Times,
Jun. 24, 2009) Risking the ire of the United States and other trading partners,
the Chinese government has quietly started adopting policies aimed at
encouraging exports while curbing imports.
Coping with Digital
Revolution: China Offers Green Dam, Iran Faces Neda By
Guobin Yang (YaleGlobal, Jun. 23, 2009) The global response to China’s
filtering software Green Dam Youth Escort and the Iranian election are not
only proof of the power of the internet as a democratic form of
communication, but also as a lever for democracy itself.
China’s Economy Takes a
Sharp Domestic Turn By Keith Bradsher
(New York Times, Jun. 12, 2009)
Now, the Chinese economy relies increasingly on growth at home, as data
released Thursday made clear. A decline in exports has become a serious drag
on growth, while government spending has led domestic investments higher at a
remarkable pace.
China’s Commodity Buying
Spree By Keith Bradsher
(New York Times, Jun. 11, 2009) Strong buying by China has helped lift commodity prices around
the world this spring, but growing evidence suggests that a sizable portion
of this buying has been to build stockpiles in China, and may not be
sustainable.
China Requires Censoring on
New PCs By Andrew Jacobs
(New York Times, Jun. 9, 2009) China has issued a sweeping
directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include
sophisticated software that can filter out pornography and other “unhealthy
information” from the Internet.
After Tiananmen, China
Wedded Force with Freedom By John Pomfret (Washington
Post, Jun. 7, 2009) Twenty years after the crackdown, the most intriguing
question to me isn't how many people died. It's this: How has the Communist
Party managed to emerge from that experience stronger than ever?
Tiananmen Anniversary Muted
in Mainland China By Ariana Eunjung Cha and K. C. Ng (Washington Post,
Jun. 5, 2009) Mainland China
remained quiet on the 20th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square
crackdown, while tens of thousands of people staged a protest in Hong Kong.
Washington Commemoration of
Tiananmen Overshadowed By Foster Klug (AP, Jun. 4, 2009) None
of the commemorations of Tiananmen has demanded as much attention as Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner's trip to China this week to secure economic cooperation
from the single-biggest holder of U.S. debt.
Bullets Over Beijing By
Nicholas D. Kristof
(New York Times, Jun. 4, 2009) When you educate
citizens and create a middle class, you nurture aspirations for political
participation. In that sense, China
is following the same path as Taiwan
and South Korea
in the 1980s.
In China, Liberty Has Many
Faces By Jill Drew
(Washington
Post, Jun. 4, 2009) Freedom" is a tricky word, malleable for some,
immutable for others. Many in China
today are exploring new freedoms, bolstered by the nation's two decades of
strong economic growth.
‘Tiananmen Is Still Here’ By
Leslie Hook
(Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2009) One of
China's most famous dissidents says force is still how the Communist Party
gets its way.
International Monetary
Reform and the Future of the Renminbi By
Pieter Bottelier
(China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, May 27, 2009) It seems likely that the
financial crisis will lead to more hedging by Beijing of the U.S. dollar
through increased international use of the RMB and accelerated movement
toward full RMB convertibility.
Beijing’s Would-Be Houdinis By
Sebastian Mallaby
(Washington
Post, May 26, 2009) It is easy to appreciate China's sudden appetite for bold
new ideas about international finance. But Beijing's leaders look less like the
architects of a new Bretton Woods than like
aspiring Houdinis.
Peaceful Evolution Angst By
Roger Cohen
(New York Times, May 25, 2009) The Vietnamese
Communist Party, like its fraternal party in China, has identified the No. 1
threat it faces. The looming danger is called “peaceful evolution.”
Openness in China about
Memoir Proves Short-Lived By Jonathan Ansfield (New York Times, May
23, 2009) The mix of approaches is characteristic of government efforts to prevent
major commemorations of the June 4, 1989, crackdown without calling too much
attention to Beijing’s
methods.
Tiananmen Now Seems Distant
to China’s Students By Sharon LaFraniere (New York Times,
May 22, 2009) Today’s students: disinclined to protest, but also lacking the
economic grievances that helped ignite protests in 1989; proud of China’s
achievements and flocking to the Communist Party, but seldom driven by ideology.
David or Goliath? China’s
Battle to Win the War of Perception By
Tania Branigan and Dan Chung (Guardian, May 22, 2009) To the outside world China is a rich, monolithic
superpower – but inside troubles mount and confidence remains fragile.
Brazil, China Plan to Trade
without Dollars Is ‘Pure Idle Talk’ By
Febiola Moura (Bloomberg, May 21, 2009) China and Brazil’s proposal to abandon
the dollar for bilateral trade and use yuan and reais instead is “pure idle talk,” former Brazilian
central bank President Gustavo Franco said.
China Wields Credit Clout
Again to Lock in Brazilian Oil By Shai Oster (Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2009) State-owned Brazilian oil
giant Petroleo Brasileiro
SA said it finalized an agreement to secure a $10 billion loan from China in
return for a long-term supply of oil, another victory for China's new
strategy of using its cash-rich banks to help secure natural resources.
China’s Stockpiles Are New
Sovereign Wealth Strategy, RBC Says By
Kevin Hamlin (Bloomberg, May 18, 2009) China is stockpiling commodities as part of a
reallocation of its sovereign wealth amid concern that the value of its
dollar assets may decline, according to the Royal Bank of Canada.
Why Bow to China? By
Christian Caryl
(Newsweek, May 16, 2009) Climate change is just
the kind of transnational issue that demands cooperation, not great-power jockeying—the
kind of increasingly common problem that pays no attention to who's on top.
China Tries to Wriggle Out
of the US Dollar Trap By Wenran Jiang
(YaleGlobal, Apr. 29,
2009) China is employing a multi-pronged approach to reduce its US dollar
exposure by seeking to foster greater use of its domestic currency, the RMB,
in trade agreements and by making purchases or direct investments in natural
resources and hard assets.
China Can’t Have It Both
Ways
(Editorial, New York Times, Apr. 26, 2009) As it
carves out an ever greater role in the world, Beijing will have to learn that
it cannot have it both ways. China
cannot be the aggrieved victim in the morning and the bully in the afternoon.
China Steps Up to World
Stage, Cautiously By Francois Godement
(YaleGlobal, Apr. 24,
2009) China
acted in a manner which has become hallmark of its behavior: guarded,
pragmatic, and ambiguous. Expecting anything different was a miscalculation.
And expecting a major change in China’s stance in the near term
is likely to be wrong too.
China Continues Energy
Shopping Spree with Joint Purchase of Kazakh Oil Producer By
Peter Leonard (AP, Apr. 24, 2009) The rivalry
between Russia and the
West for Central Asia's energy resources has
generated headlines. But it's Chinese companies that have been snapping up
assets in the region.
China Uses Global Crisis to
Assert Its Influence By Ariana Eunjung Cha (Washington Post, Apr. 23, 2009) Overseas aid and loans are just
one way China is asserting itself in its new role as a world financial
leader. While polishing China's
own image, Premier Wen Jiabao
and other top leaders have blamed the West for the global economic crisis.
China’s Rise is America’s
Decline By Martin Jacques
(Guardian, Apr. 23, 2009) Beijing
is becoming increasingly assertive on global finance and economics — and the US
will be the loser.
Report Says China Facing
Looming Aging Crisis By Christopher Bodeen (AP, Apr. 22, 2009) China's rapidly aging population threatens the
country's social and economic stability and could affect the prospects of
other countries around the world, a U.S. study says.
‘Beijing Consensus’ in
Ascendance By Jonathan Holslag
(Taipei Times, Apr. 19, 2009) What Obama’s trip singularly failed to do was paper over a
startling fact: The “Washington Consensus” about how the global economy should
be run is now a thing of the past. The question now is what is likely to
replace it.
New Branches of Nationalism
in China By Stephanie Wang
(Asia Times, Apr. 15, 2009) Both discussions of
the kimono incident and the book China Is Unhappy are
parts of the current nationwide debate over nationalism. It is good to see
that rational thinking against narrow-minded nationalism or xenophobia is not
lacking in the debate.
Beijing Talks the Talk By
Tina Wang
(Forbes, Apr. 14, 2009) Beijing's first-ever human rights action
plan is not a step forward in the country's promotion of human rights so much
as more sophisticated PR, some scholars say.
Chinese Bias for Baby Boys
Creates a Gap of 32 Million By Sharon LaFraniere (New York Times,
Apr. 11, 2009) A bias in favor of male offspring has left China with 32
million more boys under the age of 20 than girls, creating “an imminent
generation of excess men,” a study released said.
China Takes a Small Step
Away from the Dollar By Neel Chowdhury
(Time, Apr. 6, 2009) "A lot of this is
symbolic." "China
wants to be a player." And one sure way to be a player, as everyone
knows, is to threaten to quit the game.
China in Bold Move on
Volatile Health Care Issue By Christopher Bodeen (AP, Apr. 6, 2009) China
announced the outlines of a thorough reform of the health care system that
pledges to provide improved services to all citizens by 2020.
China’s Yuan Ambitions By
Ben Simpfendorfer
(Wall Street Journal Asia, Apr. 5, 2009) Beijing has signed
currency swap agreements with six central banks. China has long wanted its
currency to play a more important role in the global financial system, and
these swap arrangements come in the context of that broader policy aim.
Rich China, Poor China
Conundrum As Clout Grows By Paul Eckert
(Reuters, Apr. 5, 2009) The emergence of China
as a heavyweight economic player with a relatively poor population has
economists scrambling for new definitions, perplexes policymakers in other
countries and has some competitors crying foul.
China’s Dollar Trap By
Paul Krugman
(New York Times, Apr. 3, 2009) Mr. Zhou’s speech
was actually an admission of weakness. In effect, he was saying that China
had driven itself into a dollar trap, and that it can neither get itself out
nor change the policies that put it in that trap in the first place.
China Takes Stage as Global
Economic Power By Michael Wines and Edward Wong (New York
Times, Apr. 2, 2009) As Presidents Hu Jintao and Obama had their first
meeting on the sidelines of the summit proceedings, the Chinese appeared torn
between seizing their moment in the geopolitical spotlight and shying from
it.
Asia Split Over China’s “War
of Nerves” with U.S. By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Yoo Choonsik (Reuters, Mar. 31, 2009) Asian policymakers are preoccupied with
China's "war of nerves" over the U.S. dollar's global status rather
than the impact of the Fed's debt buying on their vast dollar-linked savings,
officials told Reuters.
China Cracks Down in Muslim
West By Alexa Olesen
(AP, Mar. 30, 2009) An overseas rights activist
said that authorities in China's predominantly Muslim far west are closing
unregistered Islamic schools and conducting house-to-house searches in a new
security crackdown in the restive region.
China Challenges US Global
Financial Leadership By Elaine Kurtenbach (AP, Mar. 28,
2009) The only major economy still growing at a fast clip, China is being unusually
forthright in challenging the U.S.-led global order ahead of an April 2
summit on the financial crisis.
China Rise Again—Part II By
Glenn D. Tiffert
(YaleGlobal, Mar. 27,
2009) Tiffert concludes that it's expected for
China to flex its new power and even propose new rules, but those rules
should be transparent, subject to international debate and applicable to all.
China Rises Again—Part I By
Wang Gungwu
(YaleGlobal, Mar. 25,
2009) Wang predicts that modern Chinese leaders will rely on ancient
principles to achieve timeless goals: the economic global can serve as a
means in establishing a prosperous and powerful state that wields global
influence.
Meltdown 101: Will China
Global Currency Idea Fly? By Christopher S. Rugaber (AP, Mar. 24, 2009) China's
central bank has called for the creation of a new global currency as an
alternative to the dollar, in the latest sign of that country's growing
assertiveness on the international stage. But would the idea even work?
China Urges New Money Reserve
to Replace Dollar By David Barboza (New York Times, Mar.
24, 2009) In another indication that China is growing increasingly
concerned about holding huge dollar reserves, the head of its central bank
has called for the eventual creation of a new international currency reserve
to replace the dollar.
China Arrests Monks in
Attack By Gillian Wong
(AP, Mar. 23, 2009) Hundreds of Tibetans attacked
a police station and government officials in northwestern China despite heightened
security, prompting the arrests of nearly 100 monks.
A New Book Reveals Why China
is Unhappy By Austin Ramzy
(Time, Mar. 20, 2009) That independent streak and
willingness to break with the Party is what makes nationalism such an
unwieldy force for China's
rulers. Nationalist sentiment can turn against leaders who are seen as not
pushing China's
interests with sufficient force.
China Gains Key Assets in
Spate of Purchases By Ariana Eunjung Cha (Washington Post, Mar. 17, 2009) Chinese companies have been on a
shopping spree in the past month, snapping up tens of billions of dollars'
worth of key assets in Iran, Brazil, Russia, Venezuela, Australia and France
in a global fire sale set off by the financial crisis.
In Crisis, China Vows
Openness By Ariana Eunjung
Cha
(Washington Post,
Mar. 5, 2009) Wen's online comments reflect the
two-pronged approach Beijing
is taking toward growing public unease as more companies collapse and
unemployment grows.
Party Elderly Press for
Checks on China’s Stimulus Plan By Jonathan Ansfield (New York Times, Mar.
4, 2009) As China’s government doles out $584 billion to stimulate its ailing
economy, critics inside and outside the Communist Party have pressed for
details about the murky spending plan and demanded the right to follow the
money.
In China, Despair Mounting
Among Migrant Workers By Ariana Eunjung Cha (Washington Post, Mar. 4, 2009)
Six months into what economists and labor experts say is China's worst
job crisis since it began market reforms 30 years ago, many among the most
vulnerable are becoming desperate.
China’s Quiet Activists By
Shawn Shieh
(YaleGlobal, Feb. 25,
2009) China’s
acceptance of the 512 Center stands in marked contrast to the suppression of
the human-rights group “Charter 08”
and serves as a reminder of the government’s evolving approach toward civil
society.
Worst Drought in Half
Century Shrivels the Wheat Belt of China By
Michael Wines (New York Times, Feb. 25, 2009)
A normally dry rural region has been parched in recent months, aggravating
economic problems facing the Beijing
government.
Beijing Launches Diplomatic
Blitz to Steal Obama’s Thunder By Willy Lam (China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, Feb. 20 ,2009) Beijing has unleashed an unprecedented
diplomatic blitz while the new Obama administration
battles doubts about its stimulus packages to salvage the struggling American
economy.
China Tells U.N. Panel That
It Respects Rights By Ariana Eunjung Cha (Washington
Post, Feb. 10, 2009) United Nations delegates took China to task on its human
rights record, pressing officials about Tibet, labor camps, the death
penalty, torture in custody and the treatment of dissidents.
Violent Unrest Rocks China
As Crisis Hits By Michael Sheridan
(Times, Feb. 1, 2009) Bankruptcies, unemployment
and social unrest are spreading more widely in China than officially reported,
according to independent research that paints an ominous picture for the
world economy.
Virtual Groundswell
(Editorial, Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2009) A
commitment to gradually implement political liberalization in partnership
with a free citizens movement would make it far easier for the Chinese
leadership to manage what is likely to be a year of crisis.
In China, a Grass-Roots
Rebellion By Ariana Eunjung
Cha
(Washington Post, Jan. 29, 2009) The evolution of
Charter 08 is being closely monitored outside China to see how far the
government will go to squelch it.
For China, New Year Brings
Somber Mood By Ted Plafker
(New York Times, Jan. 27, 2009) This year’s Davos talks will focus not on heady predictions about a
rising China and its growing economic might. Instead, the question will be how
the world — China
included — will steer its way through the deepening global downturn.
China Marches on in Africa
Despite Downturn By Alistair Thomson
(Reuters, Jan. 27, 2009) Chinese businessmen are
taking a long-term view and pursuing strategic expansion in Africa even
though China's
multiplying investments on the continent have lost some luster in the global
downturn.
China Cuts off Foes to Spite
Its Face By Francesco Sisci
(Asia Times, Jan. 27, 2009) It could be a risky
year for China's
leadership, as the global financial crisis, a series of politically sensitive
anniversaries and growing dissent raise fears of destabilization.
“Erroneous” Western
Democracy Not for China Says Official
(Reuters, Jan. 18, 2009) China must build
defenses against "erroneous" ideas involving Western-style
democracy, a top government official said in comments published on Sunday,
shooting down recent calls by dissidents for political reform.
As China’s Jobless Numbers
Mount, Protests Grow Bolder By Ariana Eunjung Cha (Washington Post, Jan. 13, 2009) As a global recession takes hold
and China's
economy continues to slow, growing legions of unemployed workers are becoming
increasingly bold in expressing their unhappiness.
China’s 2009 Remake By
Rana Foroohar, Melinda
Liu and Mary Hennock (Newsweek, Jan. 10, 2009) Ambassador Wu Jianmin
is one of China's
most experienced envoys. Last month, he chatted about China's next challenges with NEWSWEEK's Rana Foroohar, Melinda Liu and Mary Hennock.
China’s Reluctance to Reform By
Willy Lam
(Asia Times,
Jan. 10, 2009) Given the bunker mentality that seems to be prevalent among
the CCP leadership, it seems improbable that the Hu-Wen
team will in the near future duplicate the bold, visionary - and risky -
reforms unveiled by late patriarch Deng 30 years ago.
China Losing Taste for Debt
from the U.S. By Keith Bradsher
(New York Times, Jan. 8, 2009) The declining
Chinese appetite for United
States debt, apparent in a series of hints
from Chinese policy makers over the last two weeks, comes at an inconvenient
time.
China Face Economic Pain,
Sensitive Anniversaries By Christopher Bodeen (AP, Jan. 6, 2009) The
year ahead will challenge Chinese security officials increasingly nervous
about social stability, the nation's top police officer said.
Papua New Guinea and China’s
New Empire By Geoffrey York
(Globe and Mail, Jan. 2, 2009) As he completes
nearly seven years as The Globe and Mail's Beijing bureau chief, Geoffrey
York says the most striking change is the boom in Chinese trade, aid and
influence around the world, especially in places the West has neglected or
rejected.
As Trade Slows, China
Rethinks Its Growth Strategy By Keith Bradsher (New York Times,
Jan. 1, 2009) Particularly noteworthy have been the Chinese government’s steps
to help labor-intensive sectors like garment production, one of the
industries China has been trying to move away from in an effort to climb the
ladder of economic development.
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