Shanghai Pictures
Some of my pictures from Shanghai this past week can be seen here on Flickr. Enjoy!New Column Available
My newest column on the Mattel toy recall and how it should impact US companies' imports from China has been published in the upcoming 9/24 IBJ. You'll have to pick it up in a bookstore or be a subscriber to the site.Shanghai Daily Op-Ed
My most recent piece was picked up (w/ the typical translation and political editing as is the case w/ Xinhua) by today's Shanghai Daily. You can read my analysis of the potential for "invisible protectionism" here.Paulson Comments on the US-China SED
Apologies for lack of posting recently - I've been on vacation in Turkey (more on that later). Last Monday's Asia Times carried my analysis of how this summer might impact the US-China trade relationship, specifically after Paulson's comments at Heritage Institute on the second SED which recently was completed. From my article: As the US begins to flush out in detail how it will respond to what it believes are unfair trade practices on China's part, the Chinese government itself is going through similar calculations about what it considers unfair with its relationship with the US. China's leadership is not naive, and those in the US government who believe they can count on a subservient and clumsy political class ...Joshua Kurlantzick & China’s Soft Power
My review of Joshua Kurlantzick's new book, Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World, has been published at Asia Times and can be read here. A quote from the review: Loitering throughout Kurlantzick's analysis of China's ability to employ soft power is the painful realization that the US has squandered much of its own accumulated soft power. This strength, the product of a country that has embodied some of the greatest insights into human governance and which chose to interject itself successfully into two World Wars in the last century, has been severely damaged through policy missteps that Kurlantzick traces back to the administration of president Bill Clinton. The "flat world" of globalization, so stridently ...China, US in Search of a Level Playing Field
My most recent article at Asia Times covers the re-introduction of the Fair Currency Act of 2007 (FCA) and what it suggests about changes to the US-Sino trade relationship. A quote from it: The questions circling around China's accountability to international standards have gradually become increasingly specific and built momentum as a number of congressional panels have publicly begun to question Beijing's commitment to conformance with World Trade Organization (WTO) standards. With the introduction of a Democrat-controlled Congress, legislation like the recently reintroduced Fair Currency Act (FCA) of 2007 attest to a subtly changing position on the broad topic of globalization, and the more specific set of assertions that have supported China's entry to the marketplace for the past 15-plus years. ...When China Comes to Iowa
My most recent article for Asia Times, When China Comes to Iowa, on the question of how impactful Chinese FDI will be in the manufacturing intensive heartland of the US, has been published and can be read in detail here.Totalitarianisms Revisited
This is an article I wrote some time ago which did not get picked up; because I am still working on the idea, I wanted to get it out into the public in order to get feedback from those who might have something to contribute to my thought process. At the moment, China holds the potential to become a beacon of insecurities for the West. Politicians aware of the underlying economic disquiet which colors their electorate, even now in times of relative stability, are likely to intensify the focus on China’s role in job loss and lowered standards of living once the issue with illegal immigration is no longer politically expedient. Similarly, the powerful community of ...When China’s Economic & Political Agendas Collide, Will You Be Ready?
Forcing broader WTO compliance on China is a complicated proposition in large part because the US’ own motives relative to China are mixed. The US government is attempting to balance the interests of two American business communities who have disparate agendas. On one hand are the well connected multi-national companies who call the US home and who rely on the low price of Chinese imports to sustain their growth and profitability. These organizations are leery of the US government being too heavy-handed in an effort to enforce WTO compliance for fear China may resist and engage in their own form of protectionism which would subsequently damage the US companies’ ability to access China as a source for ...March 2007 USCC Meeting
According to testimony at last week’s USCC meeting, China’s current sophistication in its perception management parallels that of the latter stages of the Cold War, in particular the Soviet downing of KAL007. After this tragedy, the Soviets were surprisingly successful at getting certain portions of the international media to take its claims seriously that the flight was an illegal intelligence gathering mission designed to “tickle” border radar stations. Similarly, incidents which occur within China’s sovereign territory give it, coupled to its state-run media outlet, a unique ability to craft what information is disseminated, and thereby much of what constitutes world opinion on the event itself. « Previous Entries Next Entries »About MysteriousFaith
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