Monthly Archives: January 2011
Footage Of China’s First Aircraft Carrier
Footage has appeared on the internet said to be the disused aircraft carrier hull China bought from Russia in 1998 and has been fitting out in Dalian. Work on the 58,500-ton Varyag appears to have been progressing rapidly. In the second … Continue reading
Filed under Defence
Central Bank Announces 2011 Monetary Growth Target
The central bank has put some hard numbers on the switch it announced at the end of last year to more prudent monetary policy. The People’s Bank of China, in its quarterly monetary policy report, says it wants to slow … Continue reading
North China Plain Drought Leaves Millions Facing Water Shortages
The three months of drought across the North China Plain is now leaving millions short of drinking water, Xinhua reports, and there are concerns the situation will worsen. The lack of rain has affected the wheat growing belt across six … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Unintended Consequences Of Yuan Revaluation
Our man with his ear to the ground moving and shaking the global elite at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos sends word that amidst a general half-glass full/glass half empty sentiment towards China’s commitment to revaluing its … Continue reading
Filed under China-U.S., China-Vietnam, Economy
Some China Cities Slowly Getting Greener
Urbanization and industrialization is a filthy business. Industry pollutes. More of it just pollutes more. As nation after nation has gone through the industrialization phase of rapid development, each has had to trade-off the benefits of growth and their environmental … Continue reading
Filed under Environment
Dragon Mother To American Dream Mom
This is why we love the interconnected world. Dragon mother Amy Chua, the Yale University law professor whose book on alpha-mom parenting, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has whipped up such a storm of controversy and publicity in the … Continue reading
Filed under Politics & Society
China’s Next-Gen Multinationals
For the past five years, Boston Consulting Group, a management consulting firm, has published an annual list of 100 companies from emerging economies that it reckons have the potential to become multinationals. All of what it calls its global challengers are fast … Continue reading
China and America’s Stealth Fighters: Spot The Difference
China may have reversed engineered the J-20 stealth fighter it has been ostentatiously leaking pictures of in recent weeks from a U.S. F-117 stealth jet shot down by Serbia in 1999 while on NATO duty during the Kosovo war. That … Continue reading
Filed under China-U.S.
China’s Open Throttle
Quite how fast is China’s economy growing? The Financial Times’s Lex column run’s Li Keqiang’s informal but crunchy measures of economic growth, the ones mentioned in a Wikileaked U.S. embassy cable from 2007: electricity consumption, rail cargo volume and bank … Continue reading
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