Paul Plowman makes an interesting comment on a post below about negative views on China, which I commend to you. His view is (partly) that Americans are worried that China’s economic s... Read more
With the NPC and the CPPCC in progress in Beijing, the annual orgy of relationship making and strengthening is in full swing. One of the men who played that game best during the 1990s was La... Read more
There is a department of a major university in Shanghai devoted to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues. Today I found out, with glee, that the departmental heads make photocopies of th... Read more
I received an email from a girl named Jasmine in Texas a week or so ago, asking if I could help her on her school project. She and her friends are doing a documentary, she said, on Tiananmen... Read more
The Financial Times published this story about a US State Dept report that poses the possibility that international drug-trafficking cartels are laundering their illicit gains in China... Read more