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A tale of two Chinas: in modern China, development is sacred—and history is becoming a thing of the past
AFTER A century of political chaos, foreign occupation, and Maoist revolution, China has been reborn. No longer the "poor man of Asia," the nation has, ......(Continue Reading) The labor market in post-reform China: history, evidence, and implications; China's labor cost advantages are shifting but will remain formidable
Concern over China's growing economic power has focused attention on its prevailing wage, which--in spite of recent strong growth--remains a fraction ......(Continue Reading)A short history of free speech in China
200 BC The legacy of Confucius From 200 BC to the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese statecraft was based on the ideas of Confucius, a political ......(Continue Reading)Communist China Conducting Effective Economic War Plan - Fair Comment
Byline: Tom Adkins, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Corporate profits are up 30 percent. Consumer confidence? Up 10 percent to 91.7, the highest since ......(Continue Reading)Why the dragon will outrun the bear: ever since he travelled to the Soviet Union and China as a young man nearly 20 years ago, Nicholas Watt has asked
In 1986, as a brash 18-year-old, I wrote to Mikhail Gorbachev. I asked the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party to discuss world affairs with me during a brief stopover in Moscow as I ma...(Continue Reading)
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