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China executes two in tainted milk scandal - 1 hour ago
China has executed two men in an apparent attempt to assuage public anger at the tainted milk...
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Arroyo declares state of emergency - 4 hours ago
The Philippines' president declared a state of emergency in parts of the island of Mindanao after at...
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Former Thai premier Samak dies at 74 - 11 hours ago
Samak Sundaravej, the plain-spoken former Thai prime minister who was removed from office last year...
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Australia to sweeten carbon scheme - 12 hours ago
The government has made a last-ditch effort to win over opposition MPs to its proposed carbon...
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Canberra faces legal challenge on carbon scheme - 16 hours ago
Australian power generators have threatened legal action if the government does not dramatically...
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Tensions rise as 21 die in Philippines attack - 17 hours ago
At least 21 people have been killed in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao in what the...
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Indonesia president intervenes in graft case - 18 hours ago
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stopped short of instructing police to drop a case of alleged corruption...
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Lecturing each other on trade - 6 days ago
I finally got back to Beijing Friday, and have spent the past five days getting over jet lag and...
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What rebalancing of Chinese and American consumption? - 3 weeks ago
Later today I am leaving to New York and DC for a week, so this may be my last post for several days...
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Banking concerns and Chinese university rankings - 3 weeks ago
There were two interesting and related articles Wednesday, both suggesting that the CBRC continues...
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Chinese railways and speculating pig farmers - 4 weeks ago
This weeks’ entry is fairly miscellaneous, a consequence both of the amount and variety of news...
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China’s September data suggest that the long-term overcapacity problem is only intensifying - 1 month ago
The release of September trade data earlier this week was pretty interesting, although because of...
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Currency depreciation and global imbalances - 1 month ago
The US trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed in August, according to the Commerce Department in a...
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The IMF warns about surplus countries and global imbalances - 1 month ago
As Beijing slowly unlocks from its 60th anniversary celebrations – the streets are still...
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One time return to blogging - 2 months ago
My post on the G-20’s agenda can be found on the official Pittsburgh Summit blog.
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All great things have to end - 3 months ago
This will be my last blog post, at least for the foreseeable future. I have accepted a new job,...
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Bonus graph - 3 months ago
A quick chart showing how my estimates (from work I have done with Arpana Pandey of the CFR) for...
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Turning on a Paradigm - 3 months ago
This post is by Mark Dow Very few things rouse the rabble as much as an ideological debate. And...
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China, new financial superpower … - 3 months ago
One of the biggest economic and political stories of this decade has been China’s emergence as the...
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How much do the major Sovereign Wealth Funds manage? - 3 months ago
This post is by Brad Setser and Rachel Ziemba of RGE Monitor A score of recent reports have put the...
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Still growing … - 3 months ago
The Fed’s custodial holdings of Treasuries just topped $2 trillion. Custodial holdings of...
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