David Goldman submits:
Net foreign purchases of US Treasury securities during February totalled $48 billion, slightly below the $60 billion average of the preceding three months. Foreign official agencies only bought $1.2 billion of the total. The rest was private, and overwhelmingly banks and hedge funds financing Treasury notes with cheap [...]
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It’s like something out of The Great Race. Sinobeat has more details.
Tip ‘O the hat to the Hao Hao Report
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China is walking down the same path towards empire in Africa as the once former European powers did a century ago writes former New York Times Shanghai and Africa correspondent Howard French in a new article for the U.S. magazine “The Atlantic.” While his conclusion is questionable on several [...]
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This brief interview on Bloomberg Television highlights the dramatic differences in worldview between Westerners and Africans when it comes to their view of China. Journalist Maryam Nemazee asks Adam Mahamat of the China-Africa Business Council with seeming incredulity as to how China can succeed where the West has failed. In [...]
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Yesterday afternoon Hu Jia called me on the phone. It was the first time he was in touch since he was hospitalized on 30 March. He sounded calm and gentle. He told me that the division head (prison officer) in charge of him had gone off for some training, [...]
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“Like Adolf Hitler endlessly chanting Nazi mantras to mesmerize the Germans into following him, the DPP chairwoman simply has to drone on Ma’s conspiracy to consolidate the party’s power base in central and southern Taiwan.“The China Post news staffFiled under: China, Germany, history, international, media, press review, propaganda, quote, [...]
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After the Wenchuan earthquake, in the field of primary and secondary schools, and including buildings in public places and residential areas, especially in the rebuilding process in Wenchuan, China has intensified the work on making things earthquake-proof. This work has been done continuously. Concerning this matter, you can make [...]
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I typically receive (unsolicited) maybe two to three China books a month from publishing houses hoping for positive reviews. My decision on which book to read is based on my own somewhat random logic. I choose the one I believe will best match the length of my flight. I [...]
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Chengdu recently announced that it will be issuing 1 million Panda Cards next month … . Too bad it seems none of us will get one.
See that rejoicing panda on the bottom right? That’s what the foreigners who nabbed Panda Gold Cards last year looked like. This year? We [...]
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When the Hong Kong Government decides to throw money at Arts & Culture, this is what can happen…
You’re looking at an installation that forms part of ‘Hope & Glory‘, a multimedia "conceptual circus" by Hong Kong artist Simon Birch. The installation is called ‘Crawling From The Wreckage‘, and it [...]