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...CGIS cafe. Approximately 40 students gathered for the event, which doubled as a symposium, featuring economics professor Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 as the keynote speaker. Friedman touched on the current trend of corporate layoffs of foreign employees and fielded questions about protectionism, government intervention and China??s rapidly growing economy. “The current economic downturn is extremely threatening,” Friedman said during his speech. “People should be aware that the problems we’re discussing are far more important and lasting than just here in the United...
...what the Chinese regard as a “break-away” province, Taiwan. We compete with China for natural resources and influence in the developing world. Now, the only reliable component of the equation, economic interdependence, is threatened by the global credit crunch, which is closing off China??s export markets and inducing it to spend more of its yuan at home, rather than in buying up U.S. treasury bonds...
...only can the Chinese get to Tibet fast, they have good reason to do so. Tibet is a fresh market for China??s rapidly growing economy, and its relative lack of indigenous capital makes it an easy target for predatory Chinese corporations. If that weren’t incentive enough, rampant housing discrimination makes Tibet a nice prospect for any Chinese entrepreneur. Most of the new subsidized housing—which the Chinese government made room for by razing thousands of Tibetan monuments—are given to new “Chinese settlers” to provide...
Dominguez said the decision was made difficult by the host of opportunities for Harvard in China??s political and cultural center...
...Chief and take arms against custodial layoffs, Allston resident oppression, the lack of fresh orchids in the Faculty Club bathrooms, the Harvard Men’s Basketball season, and other activities detrimental to Hope. 1. Harvard must begin with its most shovel-ready projects: holes. For example, with China??s increasing prominence in global commerce, Harvard could benefit from having the only hole that would pass through the center of the earth to China. This measure would greatly boost Harvard’s primary source of income: Asian tourists. Additional diggers could make large holes camouflaged with leaves...