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...warning of the precarious state of the Chinese economy, Wen was expressing concerns about the nation's very risky macro bet. With nearly 80% of its GDP going to exports and fixed investment, China had become overly reliant on cross-border trade and on the investments required to support the logistics and capacity of its increasingly powerful export machine. Not only has China slowed dramatically - with export growth turning sharply negative in late 2008 and industrial output growth slipping into the low single digits - but the rest of an increasingly China-centric Asian economy has been quick to follow...
...awaited emergence of the Asian consumer. For a region steeped in a culture of saving, this will not be an easy transformation. Here again, China undoubtedly holds the key. Its legendary excesses of precautionary savings are traceable to two major developments: massive layoffs associated with over 15 years of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reforms and the lack of an institutionalized social safety net. With SOE reforms likely to be ongoing - albeit probably at a slower pace in the years ahead - China needs more aggressive initiatives in the areas of social security, pensions, medical care and unemployment insurance...
...Although both of these claims have considerable merit, a damaged planet engenders little sympathy for the Asian excuse. On an absolute basis, Asia now makes the largest contribution to total growth in global pollutants - a trend that must be arrested, regardless of the size of its population or the state of its economic development. (Read "Is China Now the Climate Change Good...
Recently in Germany there has been a discussion about justice in the former G.D.R., espoused by the hard-left party Die Linke who are seeking to reject the term state of injustice when talking about the regime. This is another attempt to play down a dictatorship that destroyed families and careers, killed people and built a monstrous system of control and terror across all sectors of daily life. Young Germans learn a lot about the crime and terror in Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, their knowledge of the inhumanity of the former G.D.R. regime is often close to zero. Maik G. Seewald...
Standing Up to Taliban Corruption In your article "How the Taliban Thrives," you state that a local businessman, Hajji Lala Jan, was subcontracted by a local firm working for the German government?aid agency GTZ to build a road in Kunduz, in Afghanistan, and that Jan handed some cash to a Taliban middleman [Sept. 7]. We would like to point out that the project mentioned is not a GTZ project, and no one of that name has ever worked as a subcontractor for us. Neither we nor our partners make any payments to antigovernment groups. All of our projects...