by chuang | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog
Photo by Eric Jenkins-Sahlin, from R&K. Highlights Zombie Factories Stalk the Sputtering Chinese Economy – NY Times, Aug 30 “To protect jobs and plants, the government and its state-owned banks sometimes keep money-losing businesses on life support by...
by chuang | Aug 21, 2015 | Blog
Photo by EPA. Late into the night on August 12, two massive explosions rocked the Port of Tianjin, immediately killing dozens and injuring hundreds of people. The explosions appear to have been caused by several hundred tons of unsafely stored sodium cyanide, in the...
by chuang | Aug 18, 2015 | Blog
Image by Sim Chi Yin/The New York Times. Despite so much attention being spent on the woes of the Chinese stock market and currency wars, in other fields the Chinese state continues its liberalizing reforms. Over the last few years the state has pushed forward with...
by chuang | Jul 30, 2015 | Blog
Reposted from Gongchao (July 30, 2015).5 —– Hao Ren, et al. are Chinese worker activists who have been documenting and analyzing the situation and struggles of factory workers in the Pearl River Delta in South China over the past few years. In 2011, Hao...
by chuang | Jul 30, 2015 | Blog
Photo by Reuters via SCMP Stock market crash, growth figures Wary Chinese investors are ditching stocks for real estate – Quartz, 27 July http://qz.com/464505/wary-chinese-investors-are-ditching-stocks-for-real-estate/ “Like a bouncy castle on a patchy power supply,...
