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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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November 29, 2010
China
China’s Call for Six Party Talks: Cynical or Naïve?
China’s response to North Korea’s artillery shelling of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island last week has been relatively rapid compared to the slowness of its response to the sinking last March (it to…
January 21, 2015
China
China, Japan, and the Twenty-One Demands
Compared with the high-profile national Memorial Day for the Nanjing Massacre last month, the date January 18 passed uneventfully. Chinese media appeared to have forgotten that one hundred years ago,…
May 27, 2016
China
Friday Asia Update: Five Stories From the Week of May 27, 2016
Rachel Brown, Lincoln Davidson, Theresa Lou, Gabriella Meltzer, Pei-Yu Wei, and James West look at five stories from Asia this week. 1. Obama offers subtle criticisms in Vietnam. Much of the coverag…
September 13, 2010
China
Chinese Fishing Boat Sets Off Sino-Japanese Conflict
At midnight on Sunday morning, Japan’s new ambassador to Beijing, Uichiro Niwa, was unceremoniously summoned to meet a leading Chinese Communist Party official, State Councillor Dai Bingguo. Counci…
October 19, 2006
Monetary Policy
Richard McGregor helps to solve the mystery of China’s slow q3 reserve growth.
The increase in China’s q3 reserves was about $30b below my expectations. China’s current account surplus is usually about $15b per quarter larger than its trade surplus, and net FDI inflows have be…