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Three Observations on Taiwan Today

Posted on April 26, 2011
A generation's worth of changes on Taiwan, of which Rich discusses three, observed on his most recent trip to the island.

Three Observations on Taiwan Today

Posted on April 26, 2011
A generation's worth of changes on Taiwan, of which Rich discusses three, observed on his most recent trip to the island.

Three Observations on Taiwan Today

Posted on April 26, 2011
A generation's worth of changes on Taiwan, of which Rich discusses three, observed on his most recent trip to the island.

Good Cat in Screenland - An Interview with Richard Cohen

Posted on April 18, 2011
Today's post is my interview with the documentary filmmaker, Richard Cohen. In Mr. Cohen's latest work, "Good Cat in Screenland," two entrepreneurs from Communist China acquire a bankrupt historic show business hotel in Culver City, California, where the Munchkins resided during the filming of the 1938 film, "The Wizard of Oz...

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The Return of Manufacturing to the US -- Has China Had It?

Posted on March 04, 2011
Small companies, generally speaking, should not source product in China. Aside from logistical difficulties, they don't have the volume orders to command signficantly low price points nor even the quality control larger buyers can insist upon (and must fight to ensure is implemented)...

Chinese Investment in the US - Job Creation Chimera

Posted on January 19, 2011
This article claims 10,000 Americans hired by Chinese-invested US enterprises, a pittance for a population of over 307 million. The test will be whether PRC Chinese cultivate an ability to manage Americans, which they have traditionally done very badly...

Ai Wei-wei's Artist Studio Razed on Party Orders

Posted on January 12, 2011
Is Ai Wei-wei soon to become an artist in exile?

The World Should Thank China

Posted on January 06, 2011
?China supplied the world with very cheap and good-quality rare earths for more than a decade at the cost of depleting its resources and damaging its environment,? Wang Caifeng, who heads the government-affiliated China Association for Rare Earths, said at the conference...

Egg-shaped "Home" on Beijing Streets

Posted on January 06, 2011
Not business or law, but too delightful not to share. Click here.

China Cuts Rare Earth Export Quotas -- Implications for China Feared

Posted on December 28, 2010
It appears that the battle over rare earth minerals, involving China and many of its export destinations, including Japan and the United States, has intensified. China cut its rare earths export quotas by 11 percent in the first round of permits for 2011, threatening to worsen a global shortage of the minerals needed for smartphones, hybrid cars and guided missiles...

Guizhou As Ghana?

Posted on December 21, 2010
An extraordinary presentation by scholar Hans Rosling for the BBC. I include it here for the fascinating, but brief reference to China.

"Korean" Company Targets Law Firm in Email Scam -- Law Firm Sues Banks

Posted on December 13, 2010
I've written often on email scams targeting attorneys in the US. A foreign individual, masquerading as a company, persuades an American attorney to deposit what appears to be a genuine bank check for a large sum. The check is bogus. The bank "verifies" the bogus check...

China Hands Out Its Own Peace Prize to Lien Chan

Posted on December 09, 2010
Chinese officialdom continues to thrash wildly in response to the award of the Nobel Prize to a Chinese lawyer/activist, Liu Xiaobo, currently incarcerated. Among the thrashings: threats to foreign governments, increased surveillance and punishments of those with some connection to Liu, an apparent renewed effort to censor Internet postings, etc...

China Hush

Posted on November 12, 2010
I've not been blogging recently, so I'm going to suggest long-time readers make a point of visiting this blog: China Hush.

US to Intensify Pressures on the Yuan...No, Wait...Is This Deja Vu All Over Again?

Posted on October 11, 2010
We start this week off in a comic vein with a great joke I just read in WSJ: The U.S. will try to intensify pressure further on China over its exchange-rate policy after a weekend meeting of the International Monetary Fund failed to produce an agreement on international currency movements...

Ordinary, Everyday Fraud in China

Posted on October 07, 2010
Must read: The most recent string of revelations has been bracing. After a plane crash in August killed 42 people in northeast China, officials discovered that 100 pilots who worked for the airline?s parent company had falsified their flying histories...

Oberweis: US Has Little Leverage for Force Change in Yuan Exchange Rate

Posted on October 04, 2010
Jim Oberweis on the exchange rate in this video at Washington Post. As I understand his comments, the only leverage the US administration may have is tariffs. Rising prices in China will, over time, likely bring about gradual movement in the valuation of the Yuan.

China Says to Japan: You Don't Agree with Us, We Keep the Ball

Posted on September 23, 2010
Sharply raising the stakes in a dispute over Japan?s detention of a Chinese fishing trawler captain, the Chinese government has blocked exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided missiles...

[ANNOUNCEMENT] 2011 Blakemore Freeman Fellowships for Advanced Asian Language Study

Posted on September 13, 2010
[With thanks to the Blakemore Foundation. -- Editor] Application Deadline: December 30, 2010 Since 1990, the Blakemore Foundation has awarded over $12.3 million in grants to individuals pursuing professional, academic, or business careers that involve the regular use of an East or Southeast Asian language...

The Straddling Bus? A Chinese Innovation in Urban Transport

Posted on August 06, 2010
What do you think will happen when this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 1 or this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 2 or this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 3 or this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 4 or this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 5 Meets this: Thanks to China Hush where you can read about this...

Intel's Grove on the Need for Aggresive Economic Self-Defense

Posted on July 02, 2010
Andy Grove's op-ed at Bloomberg discusses in an appealing conversational tone, the necessity for American on-shore manufacturing: You could say, as many do, that shipping jobs overseas is no big deal because the high-value work -- and much of the profits -- remain in the U...

Currency Manipulation -- That Old Play, Rerun Again

Posted on July 01, 2010
In my (nearly) exalted position as Writer of Blog, I receive press releases from organizations and individuals. Everyone is selling something: a book, a political point of view, world peace and freedom. But I do not generally wish to help anyone flog on this blog, if only to maintain the maverick objectivity I think I at least try to imbue in each post...

US State Department Visa Staff (Officers?) To Work on Saturdays (For a Couple of Weeks)

Posted on June 23, 2010
For those in China who find visa application at US embassies and consulates a difficult and lengthy process: The U.S. Embassy in Beijing, along with four U.S. consulates general across China, is opening on Saturdays over the next few weeks to accommodate thousands of Chinese travelers seeking visas to visit the United States...

WSJ: Misleading Headline on RMB Movement

Posted on June 21, 2010
I find this to be a most misleading headline: China's Yuan Rises to Highest Level Against Dollar in Modern Era The yuan was quoted at 6.8015 to the dollar in China's over-the-counter market Monday afternoon, up strongly from its opening level of 6...

The Yuan is China's Currency and This is Not an Issue the International Community Should Discuss

Posted on June 18, 2010
Why was I not surprised to see, once again, the headline, "China Unlikely to Move on Yuan?" Because I have been writing for nearly a DECADE-- and saying it to anyone who will listen since the mid-90s -- that the RMB will move only when Chinese decision-makers find it in their interests to do so, and even then, not greatly...

Video: Real Estate Bubble to Burst Very Quickly -- 10-20% Decline in National Average in Housing Prices Over Next 18 Months

Posted on June 16, 2010
Mingchun Sun, Chief China Economist, Nomura International in Hong Kong here. "There is no way to say there is no bubble..."

Chinese Union Officials Berate Remaining Honda Strikers

Posted on June 02, 2010
Here. With some observations and a video of what may be replacement workers for remaining strikers crossing the picketline here. Interesting comments under the video here.

[Video] Chinese Girl Walks Tightrope above Hungry Tigers

Posted on May 20, 2010
Does this demonstrate the commonly held belief that Chinese are willing to take the risks Westerners are not? Or does it demonstrate something else entirely?

The Euro, the US Dollar and the RMB -- An Update

Posted on May 19, 2010
Over the past 8+ years, this blog has welcomed readers from the White House, State Department, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Commerce and numerous Virginia-based servers the origin of which one can only guess. Perhaps policymakers even read what is written here -- I do not flatter myself...

The Euro, the US Dollar and the RMB Walked Into a Bar. The Euro said...

Posted on May 17, 2010
One heard very recently of Chinese confidence in the Euro, as opposed to the US dollar, and the not-so subtle threat to re-allocate China's foreign reserve holdings from more heavily US-weighted to somewhat less. This rhetoric appears to have turned against its purveyors...

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