nytimes.com - 4/3/2009
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Back in the early stages of the financial crisis, wags joked that our trade with China had turned out to be fair and balanced after all: They sold us poison toys and tainted seafood; we sold them fraudulent securities. But these days, both sides of that deal are breaking down. On one side, the ...
ft.com - 4/2/2009
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ft.com —
The meeting on Wednesday between Barack Obama and
Hu Jintao, his Chinese counterpart, on the sidelines of...
the G20 summit had been described by some as “the G2” and marked the first encounter between the two men. During the meeting Mr Hu stressed ...
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FT.com / Asia-Pacific - China agrees on need for ...
bmj.com - 4/11/2009
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bmj.com —
Published 9 April 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1211 Cite this as:
BMJ 2009;338:b1211 Research China's excess males, sex selective abortion,...
and one child policy: analysis of data from 2005 national intercensus survey 1 College of Law, Political Science and ...
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China's excess males, sex selective abortion, and one ...
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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Friday punditry at its best! Paul Krugman: The bottom line is that China hasn’t yet faced up to the wrenching changes that will be needed to deal with this global crisis. The same could, of course, be said of the Japanese, the Europeans — and us. And that failure to face up to new realities is the main reason that, despite some glimmers of good news — the G-20 summit accomplished more than I thought it would — this crisis probably still has years to run. NY Times "news ...
Krugman and Brooks
Balloon Juice —
... of a corrupt oligarchy and not outright dismissing them, although Brooks does insist that the actual cause of this mess was incompetence, but I thought it was stunning to see this option displayed this clearly in a major newspaper. This sort of talk just a couple months ago would get you called a left-wing pinko commie America-hating traitor, and probably still is too blunt for the delicate flowers defending the status quo at Fred Hiatt’s editorial page.
Krugman is also worth a read. ...
Global Imbalances
Matthew Yglesias —
... What puts me in a pessimistic mood is the knowledge that, as Paul Krugman lays out today, the problem of the global imbalances is still lurking in the background and nobody seems to know what to do about it. ...
Wahabi Justice, More on those Wacky Palins
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man —
Ariel Cohen Charles Blow Paul Krugman Kathleen Parker "For the money Madonna would spend every year providing 24-hour nannies to raise a child, and lavishing it with private schools and the like, she could feed a village or a large orphanage for 20 years." - Diane Francis "God apparently has his own stimulus plan." -Kathleen Parker "What is Washington smoking now?" - Chuck Norris President Obama is visiting the Czech Republic today. The anticipation is not great, in fact, the country is ...
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