Archive for the ‘America’ Category
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The Democrats have gotten on the China bashing wagon... and since this is a big issue for me, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm going to need to start supporting the Iraq war (i.e. vote for McCain).
Obama told workers in Pennsylvania on Monday that China had to respect trade rules ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Hillary Clinton recently said something I found rather strange.
Pressed in a CNN interview this week for specific examples of foreign policy experience that has prepared her for an international crisis, Clinton claimed that she "helped to bring peace" to Northern Ireland and negotiated with Macedonia to open up its border ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
So, as a former film student I've been dreaming for a long time of writing a spy movie. It seems now that it is being written for me. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Gregg Bergersen, a Pentagon employee with top secret security clearances, for allegedly providing a Chinese government agent with ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
A few quick sundry items:
1. I love this quote:
“The Chinese are probably the best capitalists that communism will ever have given birth to.”
That was said by one Michelle Applebaum, head of an independent steel equity research firm in Chicago, in a Feb. 2 New York Times article about Chinalco + ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Michael Pettis has a nice piece on the US - China meetings, which I wrote about yesterday.
Yesterday I mentioned that Jim Rogers had essentially blamed the drop of the dollar on Bernanke vastly increasing dollar supply so as to stop the general downward trend of the American economy. Pettis though ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
So the Americans are in town, full of their usual "let the RMB appreciate" bravado. Chen Deming, the Chinese Vice-Minister of Commerce, managed to bitch slap them though.
"(The yuan) is not the key issue. Currently my focus is more on the depreciation of the US dollar and its possible impact ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
I was talking to my mother today, who has always been disappointed with my decision to move to emerging markets right after graduation (because I could make much more money making coffee in an American firm than being a business reporter in the Czech Republic/China... I don't even think I'm ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Somewhat randomly the other day I started wondering whether Costco has any sort of presence in China. There are 5 Costco stores in Taiwan (the first one opened in 1997 in Kaohsiung and the latest just opened in November of this year, in TaiChung) and my aunts in Taiwan are ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Due to having a long day today, and knowing an opportunity when I see it, I've decided to outsource today's blog post to my sister who is visiting from the states. Her qualifications involve working with inner city youths in San Francisco, and being generally spiky (the latter being the ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Why don't Chinese women use tampons? This is what crossed my mind the last time I went to Watson's, a Hong Kong-based drugstore chain (or as British co-worker Matt insists I write, a chemist) where expats in Beijing go to buy dental floss, tampons, and other things you can't find ...
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