China aspires to great power status by 2050, and the ongoing transition requires “a full complement of internal adjustments aimed at the structural rebalancing of the Chinese economy – from manufacturing to services, from exports to household consumption, from surplus saving to saving absorption,...
China faces US challenge: President Donald Trump with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, after initiating trade action against China, and export merchandise jams China’s ports
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Outsourcing can reduce costs, result in some silly mistakes because of misunderstandings over culture or language, and terrify workers in nations where the wage bar is set high. Yet the outsourcing industry has matured, argues this article from the Economist. Signs of maturation include growth...
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In March, China used a cyberweapon to redirect huge amounts of online traffic from Chinese search engine Baidu to targeted US websites. Rsearchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of Toronto have since suggested that the blitzes were orchestrated by a new weapon. “The Great...
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US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending travel restrictions for citizens of six countries including Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania. Previous orders restricted travel for Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen as well as Chad, North Korea...
Government leaders who engage in shameful behavior strive to limit press freedoms. A Myanmar court is holding two Reuter journalists for reporting on the Rohingya crisis. The minority Muslim group has no citizen rights in the Buddhist nation and the military burned villages and forced as many as...
A Myanmar court refused to dismiss a case Wednesday against two Reuters journalists who have been held in prison since December for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, highlighting the country’s increasingly troubled shift to democracy.
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A World Health Organization team of researchers is in China, trying to determine how a new strain of bird flu, H7N9, spreads. Human-to-human transmission would be dangerous, and researchers are investigating family members who share the flu strain. “So far, investigators have said they can't...
SHANGHAI: The World Health Organization has only a limited understanding of a deadly new form of avian flu that has killed 20 people and infected more than a hundred others, a team of researchers said on Monday, leaving unclear how the disease...
In part one of this 2-part series, David Zweig explained the processes by which China joined the global economy. In part two, China scholar Deborah Davis discusses the prospects for China's continued economic growth. While incomes have improved and everyone's boat has risen, Davis says,...
With a renewed focus on education, more Chinese children are completing at least nine years of schooling.
Twenty years ago, 80% of the Chinese population survived on less than a dollar a day. Rural families saved...
Separatist tendencies rumble around the globe as citizens take issue with governments over taxes, religious beliefs and cultural norms, recognition of minority rights or mismanagement. The West cheered such movements during the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. But the United States and the...
Independence through ballot: Catalan nationalists vote for independence, right, as do the Kurds in Iraq.
LONDON: In the early 1990s, as remnants of the Berlin Wall were transformed into a tourist attraction, there was a near-unchallenged...
