Don't Blame China
Robert Scheer
In the great American tradition of finding foreign scapegoats for our problems, the hunt is on to somehow hold China responsible for the misery that Wall Street financiers inflicted upon the world.
2010
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The Great Leap
Christopher Hayes : Global Warming & Climate Change
In the midst of a global financial crash and the climate crisis, New China enters its third act.
2009
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The China Debt Dance
Christopher Hayes : World Economy
The Chinese own so much of us that they're stuck with us.
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Exorcising America's Diplomatic Demons
Robert Scheer : US Foreign Policy
This week the Chinese Communists celebrate their sixtieth year in power, an event that the make-war-not-peace crowd might benefit from contemplating.
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The Chinese Come Calling
The Marxists bankers of Beijing are worried about their assets invested in our banana republic.
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Tiananmen at Twenty
China has changed enormously since the 1989 massacre, but the Communist Party continues to deny what happened. Americans, too, continue to misremember a complex event.
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Can China Catch a Cool Breeze?
Christian Parenti : Environment
The planet's future depends largely on the fate of China's nascent wind sector.
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The Year China Jumped the Gun
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : History
China is a country that takes anniversaries seriously. But reaction to significant historical events to be commemorated this year has already taken place.
2008
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Milk Scandal Taints China's Self-Image
Anna Greenspan : Food & Nutrition
The tainted milk crisis could prod China to act responsibly.
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Toxic Loans, Tainted Food
David E. Gumpert : U.S. Economy
As financial markets reel from the US financial crisis and tainted Chinese dairy products are sold around the world, we're learning hard lessons on the limits of globalization.
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China's Quest for Moral Authority
Orville Schell : Foreign Affairs
China is booming, but slouches toward the moral authority needed to inspire a modern, open and prosperous state. Does Confucius hold the key?
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What Would Mao Think of the Games?
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : History
He'd feel bad that the whole Communist era was airbrushed out of the Olympic spectacle. But he'd probably like the swimming.
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Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Presidential Election 2008
China's middle class ambitions; the Democrats' quest for blue-collar votes.
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Beyond Beijing: China's Toughest Competition
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom & Kate Merkel-Hess : Sports
How will the Olympics play in the Chinese equivalent of Peoria, among a populace skeptical of the government's intent and eager to tout their own economic clout?
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Class Struggle in the New China
Christian Parenti : World Economy
Across China there is a rising rural and urban class struggle as the economy moves from Maoist socialism to a strange type of quasi-Maoist capitalism.
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Strong Medicine
Melissa Holbrook Pierson : Books, Literature, & Ideas
An epic portrait of the Tiananmen Square protests, Ma Jian's Beijing Coma is one hell of a powerful novel.
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Fathers and Sons
Matt Steinglass : Books, Literature, & Ideas
Three recent books trace the generational fault lines of the Confucian family during China's past and present revolutions.
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