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China to “save the world”?

I got tired of posting stories on whether China would come out of the crisis faster and in relative better shape than America, but the mass media still find it an irresistible topic. I follow a lot of them and they can be summarized as... ...full story at Peking Duck

from Peking Duck on Tue, Aug 04 2009

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18 Feb 08 visit Which way do you look at Shanghai?  »  Richard Spencer As someone with an interest in architecture and a sentimental curiosity about relics of British colonialism, I find stories about the Old Shanghai irresistible.Looking to these buildings can be seen as looking to the pastHence my piece this morning about...
03 Apr 09 visit Council on Foreign Relations: How Severe the Slump in China  »  Digital Watch Brad Setser (his bio here) has written a sensible and easy-to-understand analysis on how the current financial crisis might impact China. (H/T to Bill Bishop, who if you use Twitter you should definitely follow, as his frequent links to stories, both in...
09 Nov 07 visit Chinese newsmen embrace greater freedom while persisting in old principles  »  People's Daily China on Thursday celebrated its 8th Journalist's Day, the last before the 2008 Olympics, prompting the old topic of expanding media freedom to find its way on lips of government officials, experts and media workers. The General Ad ...
02 Mar 09 visit Why China Will Remain Stable. No Problemo.  »  China Law Blog Though I studiously (okay, somewhat studiously) try to avoid the big think questions on this blog, I am getting so tired of the media litany that an economic downturn in China essentially guarantees political instability. I am getting tired of it because...
28 Sep 08 visit British media closely follow China's spacewalk  »  People's Daily China's first spacewalk Saturday seemed to offer a bright spot for British media, laboring for days under the gloom of the global financial crisis. The Times online carried a story with the headline "China celebrates its first spacewalk," calling...

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