Tick, tick, tick — the sound of a Congressional trade bomb. By its own, not very exacting standards, Congress has patiently waited for change in… Read More
The European economic model is dead. Don’t believe us? – Ask The Washington Post. Yesterday’s front-page story reported that the loans being made to stave… Read More
Uh oh. Just when it seemed Sino-American shouting over the undervalued yuan was quieting down, surprise guests are threatening to incite a riot. The problems… Read More
The Obama Administration, the Democratic Congress, and their friends in organized labor are quick to blame unemployment on the trade deficit. Facts don’t support that… Read More
Today’s papers give the impression of a collective exhale on U.S.-China relations. Chinese President Hu Jintao is coming to Washington for a global nuclear security… Read More
The New York Times, Washington Post, and others today ran front-page stories on economic and political disagreements the U.S. has with China. The headlines mostly… Read More
The headlines should read: World Didn’t End! Sub-head: We didn’t know what we were talking about. The data for official Chinese purchases of Treasury bonds… Read More
Something odd happened today at the Washington Post. The editors at the Post wrote a solid editorial on China and, a page later, the esteemed… Read More
China announced last Friday that its economy grew 8.7% last year. Among other things, this will prompt a chorus of claims that China is leading… Read More
There may be valuable political conclusions to be drawn from the current tiff between Google and the Chinese government, but there certainly isn’t anything new… Read More
