Tag: Beijing
Don’t Push Your Banker
Why would China fear a nation it could traumatize tomorrow by dumping its debt or shifting its iron ore, coal and copper orders elsewhere? That’s a good question for the United States to ask itself. Read Here – Bloomberg
Data Tells Peking’s Shift To Beijing; Persia’s To Iran
What’s in a name? Place names often change, and those changes stem from a tangle of politics and language. A fun tool from Google, the Ngram Viewer, lets us watch those changes play out across history. The Ngram Viewer charts how often a particular word appears in some five million books digitized as part of the […]
Xi Sees Reforms Progressing in China
Xi Jinping, delivering his first New Year’s address as China’s president, said the country must press ahead with reforms in 2014 to improve livelihoods and make the country “rich and strong.” Read Here – Bloomberg
Baby Boom Bears Down On Beijing
Beijing lawmakers and sociologists have urged the government to prepare for a possible baby boom after the capital relaxes its family planning policy next year. Read Here – Xinhua
This Mao Ain’t Going Nowhere
With his image gracing bank notes and staring out from Tiananmen Gate, Mao Zedong remains a constant presence in China 120 years after his birth, revered as a hero who founded the communist state and restored national pride – even as China moves ever further from his vision of a communist society. Read Here – AP
China And Contradiction
Why does China undermine its patient diplomacy with sudden announcements like the ADIZ? Read Here – The Diplomat
China’s Hungry For The Nobel
China rolls out a national talent programme, which observers says is aimed at capturing a Nobel Prize Read Here – China Daily
China’s Air Zone Raises Diplomatic Temperature
With distrust of China growing, many countries in Asia-Pacific are actively strengthening their diplomatic alliances, particularly with US, in a bid to balance Beijing’s growing economic and military clout Read Here – Gulf News
China’s Big Pain In The Back: Rising Oil Dependency
hina’s oil import dependency has risen from 32% at the beginning of this century to 57% last year. In the past few years, Chinese car ownership has exploded while China’s oil production has grown only slightly. Read Here – WorldCrunch
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