Living in Interesting Times
My original essay, published by Shanghai Daily, can be read in full detail now. Among the troubling questions this suggests is whether a Democratic-led US Congress will shift towards an even more strident populist position and consequently seek to elevate China as the cause of middle-America’s increasing frustration and economic stagnation. The election cycle which mercifully wound down in early November makes blaming the other party a convenient and certainly politically useful strategy, but when a party which has run largely on who they are not comes into power, they can no longer employ this same strategy and, if bereft of their own ideas, must seek out another entity to blame. Unfortunately, China fits this bill all too-well. ...Shanghai Daily Op-Ed
My essay, "Living In Interesting Times" was published by Shanghai Daily and can be read here. This was an interesting experience, as the Chinese government's editing changed my article in material ways. The full edition will be posted soon.Sino-American Friction Builds
While in Shanghai, I completed an article analyzing the US Trade Representative's 2006 report on China's WTO compliance for Asia Times. The article can be read in detail here.Looking Beyond the China Dividend
What happens when the China price globalizes? Are business executives looking beyond the China Dividend? My article at Asia Times here explores this question, and the bigger issue of whether business should be adding to its due-diligence for new efforts in China.China: Barking Up the Wrong Tree
My analysis of the 2006 US-China Economic and Security Review Commission's report to Congress can be read here here.The Mirror of Western Inadequacies
My review of Peter Navarro's new book, The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought, How They Can Be Won can be read at Asia Times here.China as Something More Than a Low-Cost Producer
No doubt China’s position as a global manufacturing giant will continue for the foreseeable future. But its success will not be forever tied to being the low-cost leader. Instead, the best case future for China is to take the risks in the area of aviation, automobiles, biotechnology and computers that developed economies are unwilling to embrace. As new technologies in each of these sectors is realized, China will complete its transition and join the long succession of economies the world has produced that have matured from low-cost producer to leader of a global economic and technological renaissance. It is perhaps for the latter that we all hold such hope in China, with an implicit realization that ... Next Entries »About MysteriousFaith
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