theatlantic.com - 12/4/2008
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“Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money” Image credit: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg News/Landov A mericans know that China has financed much of their nation’s public and private debt. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain generally agreed on the peril of borrowing so ...
atimes.com - 12/4/2008
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atimes.com —
China’s six-to-one advantage over the US By Spengler
America outspends China on defense by a margin of...
more than six to one, the Pentagon estimates. [1] In another strategic dimension, though, China already holds a six-to-one advantage over the ...
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Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, ...
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com - 12/3/2008
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Those medieval stoners sure got around. A light-haired
Caucasian man with a huge stash of green buds...
over in China.Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is ...
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World's Oldest Weed Dealer, Primo Stash Unearthed in China
babalublog.com - 12/11/2008
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As you read this, I'm in transit to
Washington DC for a very special event. I, along...
with a handful of other bloggers/new media users/activists, have been invited for a round table discussion with the President of the United States....
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Babalu Goes to Washington
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Articles on China
Calculated Risk —
... Brad references two article, the second, James Fallows' interview with China's Gao Xiqing is here: “Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money” Worth reading ... ...
Peggy Noonan's Piffle
Taylor Marsh —
... Obama is inheriting a relationship with China that has its financial leader
warning the U.S. in no uncertain terms: -??Be
Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money.-?? ...
Don't Just Limit Executive Compensation. Limit Financial Industry Compensation
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
Gao Xiqing, president of the China Investment Corporation, speaking to James Fallows:
I have to say it: you have to do something about pay in the financial system. People in this field have way too much money.... It distorts the talents of the country. The best and brightest minds go to lawyering, go to M.B.A.s. And that affects our country, too! Many of the brightest youngsters come to me and say, "Okay, I want to go to the U.S. and get into business school, or law school." I say, "Why? Why not science and engineering?" They say, "Look at some ...
Taylor Marsh: The 'Bush Legacy Project' Rewrites Reality
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Obama is inheriting a relationship with China that has its financial leader warning the U.S. in no uncertain terms: "Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money." ...
Rebecca MacKinnon: Dear President Obama: in Talking to China, Remember its People
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... after a collision with a Chinese fighter jet which crashed into the sea. If people in the Chinese Internet chatrooms had gotten their way, the U.S. crew would be in a Chinese jail today. In a recent interview with The Atlantic's James Fallows, the President of the China Investment Corporation Gao Xiqing pointed out that his P.R. department is inundated with public comments calling for him to sell U.S. dollar assets. ...
Rebecca MacKinnon: Dear President Obama: in Talking to China, Remember its People
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... after a collision with a Chinese fighter jet which crashed into the sea. If people in the Chinese Internet chatrooms had gotten their way, the U.S. crew would be in a Chinese jail today. In a recent interview with The Atlantic's James Fallows, the President of the China Investment Corporation Gao Xiqing pointed out that his P.R. department is inundated with public comments calling for him to sell U.S. dollar assets. ...
Chen Zhu: The American Media’s New Chinese Poster Boy
Pajamas Media —
... things that make us different, it seems a bit hypocritical to heap praise on a Chinese leader based on his Western qualities rather than those things that make him uniquely Chinese. Perhaps you remember last year’s favored Chinese-guy-that’s-not-really-a-Chinese guy, Gao Xiqing, president of the China Investment Corporation. His firm manages about $200 billion of the nearly $2 trillion that the Chinese have invested in the U.S. economy. Gao famously warned Americans in a December ‘08 i nterview with ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 12/12/2008 — James Fallows writes about the rapidly expanding Beijing Metro — which has added several lines and extended others just during Fallows time living in China. This seems like an incredibly smart decision on the part of the Beijing government. ...
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scsuscholars.com 2/15/2009 — I was talking with Ed Morrissey before his show today -- which, by the way, was screamingly funny and good so go listen -- and he was telling me about a post he did about a Chinese official who said that China is pwn3d by the U.S. treasury . Luo Ping, ...
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straitstimes.com 12/10/2008 — BEIJING - CHINA may soon cut business tax as part of its efforts to prop up the slowing economy amid the global financial crisis, state media reported on Tuesday. The government is 'very likely' to soon cut the business tax for enterprises by one ...
China Censors Parts Of Obama's Speech
huffingtonpost.com 1/22/2009 — BEIJING — The official Chinese translation of President Barack Obama's inauguration speech omitted his references to communism and dissent, and a live broadcast on state television Wednesday quickly cut away to the anchor when sensitive topics ...
We Are All Flint, MI Now
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 11/17/2008 —
Flint
I was talking with mr. emptywheel about what one of the bad--but by no means worst--case scenarios in a GM bankruptcy would be. This scenario is just one of several that might happen--by no means guaranteed, and Congress would fight the ...
China Losing Taste for Debt From U.S.
nytimes.com 1/8/2009 — As the global downturn has intensified, Beijing is starting to keep more of its money at home, which could have painful effects for U.S. borrowers. >
Chinese Automakers May Buy GM and Chrysler
thetruthaboutcars.com 11/19/2008 — Chinese carmakers SAIC and Dongfeng have plans to acquire GM and Chrysler, China’s 21st Century Business Herald reports today. [A National Enquirer the paper is not. It is one of China's leading business newspapers, with a daily readership over ...
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