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…bservation: Lately, the Li Keqiang Index has accelerated much more than the reported GDP growth. One could surmise that China’s actual GDP growth (measured on a year-over-year basis rather than on an annualized sequential change) may have been greater than the reported 6.9% in th...

163 intervened with hotels where activities involving Taiwan (such as trade shows) flew the flag of the Republic of China. Probably in view of the costs incurred by cancelling a contract with their Taiwanese partners, the addressees in general did not comply. In a similar inci...

…l resource in the intelligence war. To get both electronic intelligence and human intelligence about the United States, China also had a highly-productive intelligence sharing treaty with Russia. It was signed in 1992 after the Soviet Union was dissolved. Although the terms of th...

…f course. We have to look at the short-term, mid-term, and long- term. Let’s look at the background to understand where China is today. This is the 40% year, the anniversary, of China’s reform and opening up. On December 18*, 1978, Deng Xiaoping made his famous speech, which tran...

190 businessman with business interests in China. There is an unsubstantiated rumor that the investment was subsidized by $1 million from the Ministry of Propaganda. e Duowei is another online source that was for years an independent Chinese- language media. It was purchased...

…tions Recent headlines that the trade war may be escalating to a cold war are not without merit, as we believe that US-China relations are changing on a more structural basis and will have a longer-term impact. On a short-term basis, however, US exposure to China is limited with...

…lves and the Syrians that we are aligning with the Syrian people. Forget the UN. This will send a critical message to China and Russia that they don’t have a veto on US policy. Gain legitimacy by aligning with Turkey and others. Send a strong and clear message to business and...

…ho for over a decade has helped train and find jobs for butlers. “The country now with the biggest trend in butlers is China,” said Mr. Yeh, whose English accent would be at home on “Downton Abbey,” the television series about a blue blood family in England, which was avidly wat...

…who for over a decade has helped train and find jobs for butlers. "The country now with the biggest trend in butlers is China," said Mr. Yeh, whose English accent would be at home on "Downton Abbey," the television series about a blue blood family in England, which was avidly wat...

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shamelessness of her television appearances, extended this into a larger critique of Conway’s vulgarity. When referring to her, they were particularly partial to using the shorthand “nails,” a reference to her Cruella de Vil-length manicure treatments. By mid-February she was al...

…media outlets in Hong Kong and elsewhere. And there have been instances in which businessmen with economic interests in China have attempted to expand their media holdings in Taiwan.** Perhaps more disturbing is China's effort to purchase influence in global culture through its...

… spots of New York, Berlin and Moscow, as well as from the emerging collector territories of the Middle East, India and China for what is now known simply as Frieze week. It's no longer just about the fair; a whole city's-worth of cultural activity has coalesced around those big...

…a second Tong declared its fealty to Beijing, and a competition broke out between the PRC and Taiwan in San Francisco’s Chinatown to see which side could fly the most flags. This competition can be vividly seen from the seventeenth floor of a public housing project overlooking Ch...

…nships and standards of living of all people. There are real issues and I think we need to discuss them. But right now, China is sending signals by what it's doing, that it wants to ratchet down the trade war. It recognizes that it cannot be TRADE unresponsive. H OW U.S. slapped...