Tag: Links

  • U.S.–China update: Weekend of June 23–24, 2012

    ‘Red nobility’ Yu Zhengsheng navigates China’s factional politics｜Politics｜Peopl… As one of the princelings of China — the scions of CCP elites — Yu Zhengsheng maintains a good relationship with two competing party factions: the one that surrounds former president Jiang Zemin, and the other centered around his successor, Hu Jintao. China telecom firms may be…

  • Daily Update, June 22, 2012

    FDI: U.S. Luxury Real Estate Courts the Chinese Buyer – WSJ.com Finance: China Said to Propose Limits on Local Government Loans – Bloomberg — China’s banking regulator proposed keeping a cap on local government loans to curtail defaults while encouraging funding for railways, roads and affordable homes, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said. Transitions:…

  • Daily Update, June 21, 2012

    This is an experiment. In my new position, I need to keep close track of news developments. Perhaps a good way to do this is to build a daily briefing, in the tradition of Bill Bishop’s update at Sinocism or Politico’s morning e-mail, or indeed of this blog’s former practice of posting Del.icio.us links. Only…

  • Environment Wednesdays?

    At Infopolitics, I just posted the first of what may be many lists of recent links. I may do the same here, but I’ve tired of the Del.icio.us format. Maybe each day of the week will get a theme, too. Anyway, here’s a link on a U.S. supplier polluting Chinese rivers. Greenpeace has found that…

  • links for 2009-01-28

    The Other Ellis Island (Time Magazine) "From 1910 to 1940, a million immigrants seeking a better life in the U.S., most of them Chinese, were processed on Angel Island, a tiny dot of land in the San Francisco Bay, roughly 45 minutes from San Francisco." (tags: china-us chinesediaspora migration huaqiao chineseamerican sanfrancisco angelisland) Worldchanging: Mapping:…