links for 2008-11-18

Bank of America buys more of China Construction Bank.

Abstract submission for the annual conference of the Harvard East Asia Society.

The number of Americans studying in China increased by 25 percent, and the number of Chinese students studying at American universities increased by 20 percent last year, according to the report, “Open Doors 2008.”

In an interview published in The Financial Times of London on Monday, the official, Maj. Gen. Quan Lihua, did not say whether China was in fact building a carrier.