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It's been six weeks since He Jun, a Hong Kong-listed company, shuttered two of its biggest factories in China - suddenly and without any warning, former workers say. They were among the latest and largest factory closures in China's battered low-end industries: toy manufacturers, textile companies and...
So who's right? I'd go with the locally based economists. While the U.S. fiscal package is unlikely to add even 1 percentage point to American growth, a recent report by Merrill Lynch estimates that the $600 billion stimulus Beijing unveiled in mid-November will likely add 3 percentage...
Yes, there will be plenty of pain. Kroeber and others predict a rough next few months. They also concede that a sharp decline in exports will hit China hard, possibly cutting 2.5 percentage points off growth in 2009. There's also the strong likelihood that tens of millions of dollars...
The 17 Uighurs are trapped in a seemingly irreconcilable dilemma. The Bush Administration first cleared them for release in 2003. The men had been rounded up by bounty hunters in Pakistan in the months after 9/11 and sent to U.S. authorities, who eventually determined that they posed no terrorist threat...
What exactly China will do in retaliation is unclear. Glaser and other China watchers do not expect a major backlash that would derail relations between Washington and Beijing. Glaser said Chinese leaders would likely react to the Uighurs' release in the U.S. as they did to the announcement in October...