Julia Lovell: La Gran Muralla (1)
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China contra el mundo. La muralla como símbolo Julia Lovell: La Gran Muralla (Editorial Debate, 2007, 436 págs) Con estilo irónico y ameno, Julia Lovell desmonta en este libro numerosos tópicos sobre el monumento más emblemático de China: no existe una única muralla, sino numerosos tramos erigidos en diferentes épocas. La que hoy visitan los turistas es de época Ming y no la que construyó el primer emperador. No tuvo únicamente carácter defensivo sino ofensivo, ...
How China will Colonize America by Spewing Pollutants into the Atmosphere (1)
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Americans are Reportedly Inhaling 10 billion Pounds of Chinese Toxic Fumes Annually It was reported a few days ago that some 10 billion pounds of airborne pollutants from Asia — ranging from soot to mercury to carbon dioxide to ozone — reach within the borders of the US annually, quoting numerous scientific estimates. But the pollution figures that scientists studying the impact of Asian, and mostly Chinese, environmental waste in the atmosphere have suggested are ...
"A Chinese Conspiracy Theory" (1)
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Andrew Leonard at Salon sums up recent commentary on Chinese investments in U.S. bonds that is going sour, and provides some of his own: A Chinese conspiracy theory, Andrew Leonard: Hardly a day goes by without Dean Baker finding something to get angry about in the pages of the New York Times or Washington Post, but on Friday morning the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research delivered a double-dose of dyspeptic sputtering. ...
There’s a Whole Foods in Zimbabwe (1)
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A few days ago while high on the Olympic spirit, Daily Show “commentator” Lewis Black (in character he plays a blowhard) announced the “Evil Dictator Awards.” Radovan Karadzic of Serbia got Bronz. Omar Al Bashir of Sudan gets Silver. No guessing who gets the Gold Medal. “Bobby” Mugabe. Mugabe proved that he still has his despotic chops by recently winning an election he actually lost, and by making everybody a billionaire.” Black then shows a ...
Why the Chinese Don’t Count Calories (1)
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Last night at the Beijing Bookworm, British author Lorraine Clissold gave a brief talk on her new book, Why the Chinese Don’t Count Calories. Something of a riposte to international bestseller Why French Women Don’t Get Fat, this awkwardly titled book joins the growing literature on how traditional cuisines are better than dieting fads. So just what is healthy about Chinese food? While it has a reputation for being greasy and fattening in the West, ...
Will we all burn in a fire made of mooncake packaging? (2)
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Imagethief likes the Mid-Autumn Festival. I like it because even though it actually comes in late summer, it reminds me of autumn, and autumn is famously the nicest time of year in Beijing. In any year devoid of Olympic rigging, late summer in Beijing is intolerably hot, muggy and polluted. This year it was merely hot.Over the years many people have told Imagethief that the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival falls in summer because of inconsistency between ...
China’s Central Bank Is Short of Capital - NYTimes.com (2)
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China’s central bank is in a bind, after snapping up roughly $1 trillion worth of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the last seven years.
"China's Central Bank is Short of Capital" (1)
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Either the Chinese do not understand banking and investing or the line being fed the Western press about the struggle over the Bank of China's reserves is a cover story of some sort. Given the fact set, Dean Baker's reaction 'Is China's Central Bank Run By Morons?" is not unreasonable. I have a different theory, which we'll get to in due course.The plot overview:The Bank of China buys lots of dollar investments to keep the ...
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Brad Setser: Follow the Money (8)
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One of my usual laugh lines is that the CIC isn’t a sovereign wealth fund; it is a sovereign loss-minimization fund. After all, selling debt denominated in an appreciating currency (and one that, given China’s current account surplus, should face ongoing pressure to appreciate) to buy assets denominated in a depreciating currency is generally a good way to lose money. All the more so if the interest rate on the appreciating currency is higher than ...
China developing x86-compatible processor to rival Intel (8)
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Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsWhile most of the products coming out of China are powered by Intel, AMD, and VIA chips, the Chinese government is investing heavily in a new chip called the Godson-3 in an effort to be "technologically independent." The Godson-3 is a third generation, quad-core design -- the project was started in 2001 -- and the goal is to use it to bring PCs to most Chinese citizens by 2010. Importantly, the 65nm ...
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Hmm... it would appear China's attempting to decrease their dependency on products from Western companies. Will new OSes be far behind?
A few words about a traditional American value (2)
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Now that the campaign against a free press is officially under way, perhaps it's time for a few words about a traditional American value. Last night, the Republican party applauded a vice-presidential candidate who wanted to ban books from her town library and demanded that the head librarian sign a personal loyalty oath. Simultaneously, it rolled out a set of talking points claiming that "the media" has undertaken a scurrilous sexist personal attack against that ...
Coke's New Green Vending Machines: "Like Taking 218,000 Cars Off the Road For Two Weeks" (3)
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Greenpeace victory NGOs are known for getting on the case of big corporations, but it's not everyday that they get their way. At the Sydney Olympics, Greenpace came down hard on Coca Cola for its vending machines, which keep its drinks cool from Mumbai to Missouri. Greenpeace saw giant refrigerators that relied on HFCs -- greenhouse gases which can be 11,700 times more harmful than carbon dioxide (CO2) -- and used excessive, often unnecessary amounts ...
The Waltz (1)
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China’s Public Sector On The Defensive (1)
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One of the recurring themes of China’s reforms and opening up over the past thirty years has been the expansion of China’s private sector, usually at the expense of the public sector, or government-invested industries. This is a theme which has been often overlooked in the west, even by westerners in China, as they are more focused on the relationship with western companies, specifically Western Foreign-Owned Enterprises (WFOEs). There are three important components in the ...
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