On 13th Aug, 2013 I clicked on articles with China as a tag, http://www.businessinsider.com/category/china This is what appeared as it was (no selection was done by me): Rare Video Appears To Show A Public Execution In China How The Emerging Markets Will Unravel As China Unwinds Its Debt The Sex Lives Of Top Chinese Officials How China's Tax Structure Crushes The … [Read more...] about Business Insider’s Reporting on China
Who Stole Jobs from Detroit?
It might come as a surprise to casual observers that the city of Detroit is filing for bankruptcy. To those seasoned industry watchers, it is an event waiting to happen. Detroit has a prominent place in US history because it is considered "a metonym for the American automobile industry and an important source of popular music legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar … [Read more...] about Who Stole Jobs from Detroit?
Comparing Lincoln to Mao
If you were ask to give a short narrative for those two very important historical figure, what words were to come into your mind? Abraham Lincoln was consistently voted by US scholars as the greatest US president. He was even immortalized in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. However, don't the ill informed Americans know he is the greatest mass murderer in US history? … [Read more...] about Comparing Lincoln to Mao
Another Look at the Great Leap Forward
The Founding of the New Republic Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, two events are so controversial that they almost cannot be discussed rationally or void of politics. One of them is the Great Leap Forward of 1958, and the other being the Cultural Revolution of 1966. A reference to history cannot be avoided for any event, more so an event as significant as … [Read more...] about Another Look at the Great Leap Forward
Is China a Resource Poor Nation?
China has repeatedly been billed as the largest energy consumer and portrayed as possible future aggressor in the quest for more energy, mineral, and even water resources. Most western press also mentioned that China is a resource poor country that consumed a prodigious amount of minerals. However, the first point is factually wrong. … [Read more...] about Is China a Resource Poor Nation?