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on March 18, 2010
Jeff Nolan (Venture Chronicles) blogged this week about his recent trip to Southern China.
Nolan takes a close look at China's Guangdong Province. He visited a number of manufacturing facili...
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on March 14, 2010
2point6billion (a blog on economic issue in India and China) had an interesting blog post not long ago on China's "hidden" borrowing.
Officially, China has a public debt hovering a...
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on February 12, 2010
I've seen a number of stories recently about the U.S. relationship with China, and how it seems to be headed downhill. It's hard to image that such a decline won't have business implica...
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on January 30, 2010
To say Chinese culture has its eccentricities would be an understatement. Many of the most basic thought processes are different from what most Western visitors are accustomed to. Understanding thi...
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on January 26, 2010
You get in your car to go to the mall. That's not far... a few miles. A few miles and 11 stop lights. Usually you get caught at seven or eight of those 11 traffic lights. (Why don't you eve...
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on January 23, 2010
Chna made economic news this past week by announcing that its gross domestic product grew 10.7% in the fourth quarter of 2009, and that as far as China was concerned the recession was now over. The...
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on December 31, 2009
A Bloomberg piece is projecting that China's trade surplus will drop by almost 20% in 2010.
China's trade surplus in 2008 was about $200 billion. Lu Ting, a Hong Kong-based economist for...
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on December 26, 2009
India is not catching up with China. At least if you mean that soon the Indian economy and the Chinese economy will be level with each other, then it isn't.
If you think you heard me say someth...
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on November 27, 2009
What's your favorite newspaper subscription?
It seems like the world is full of newspapers worth reading: the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the ...
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on October 29, 2009
© Chi King
Forbes ran an interesting piece on China this week. It looked at three myths that are widely believed to be true, but are, well, not quite as simple as people (and the media) tend t...
