China Economic ReviewPaul 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 strength will be followed by military muscle-flexing. I would say that the American view on China is always too simplistic and my guess is […]
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 Lai Changxing, the Fujian businessman who built a massive smuggling operation – the Yuanhua Group – which is now dubbed […]
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 the textbooks used in the IPR courses for the students. Wonderful.
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 1989, and if I, as someone who was there, would be willing to talk to them, Jasmine […]
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’s poorly regulated financial systems: "The US on Wednesday expressed concern that ever more sophisticated drug-trafficking cartels were using China’s inadequately controlled financial system to launder their proceeds, possibly […]