Late night article dump

June 24, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

So everyone in the office has been riding me to post more often.  Of course, no one wants to do any of the heavy lifting and help.  That would be too logical and…helpful. The last two weeks have been full to the brim with visitors from central China, Hong Kong and Germany (yes really, here [...]

The Big Fish

June 2, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

There is a great chain of Japanese restaurants in China called Tairyo, in Chinese, 大鱼, dàyú or “Big Fish”.  I love Japanese food and DaYu has a simply insane deal – all you can eat, all you can drink (including beer, wine, sake, fresh fruit juices, etc.) for 150 RMB.  Or about US$22. To put [...]

Some miscellaneous articles

May 27, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Feeling lazy today.  Sometimes the juices ain’t flowing.  In no particular order: MSNBC – Clinton says world must respond to N. Korea Financial Times – US warns over Beijing’s ‘assertiveness’ DER SPIEGEL  – Interview with Economist Nouriel Roubini: ‘We Will Have Even More Crises in the Future’ (hat tip Matt) Real Clear Politics – Depression [...]

Arrogant Americans need not apply, the decline (?) of the West and what if the Chinese stop buying US paper?

February 24, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

“The enemy always has problems of his own of which you are unaware.” – George C. Marshall Not that China is necessarily our enemy, but they are certainly a competitor, and I don’t normally borrow money from my competitors.  Some interesting articles covering all sides of the USA declining(?) debate and other silliness. America On [...]

Battle Between U.S. and China Threatens Climate Conference

December 17, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Fascinating article about the politicking going on in Copenhagen.  Regardless of what the greens want, China and India won’t be going along.  They have too many mouths to feed.  And they especially won’t be going along after Climategate and the recent Russian bombshell. 2010 should be an interesting year.

Climategate and pollution in China

December 3, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

I’ve written about the ghastly pollution in China before (here, here, here, here and here).  With the recent bomb of “Climategate“, much of the core data supporting the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has been called into question.  I am not going to get into a debate about AGW, or whether a trace gas [...]

China cutting capacity

November 16, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Adam Supernant in our Shenzhen office sent me this article after reading yesterday’s post.  Key paragraphs: China, the world’s third-largest economy, said it plans new measures to close factories to curb overcapacity and pollution after this year rejecting requests to build industrial projects worth almost 200 billion yuan ($29 billion).The government will target the steel, [...]

This is just too funny

November 13, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

OK, so I’m feeling lazy today, but there really isn’t anything I can add to this (from Popular Science): China’s Weather Manipulation Brings Crippling Snowstorm to Beijing By Clay Dillow Posted 11.11.2009 at 6:08 pm Forecast for Beijing: Cloudy The Chinese government employs the controversial practice of cloud seeding in an attempt to force precipitation [...]

1500 new cars a day in Beijing

November 5, 2009 by aggc · Leave a Comment 

Continuing the pollution in China thread, here’s a short opinion piece by Stephen Cass in Technology Review which claims that 1500 new cars are added to the streets of Beijing each day (the excellent photo from that article is below).  I don’t know where he got that number, but I’m going to assume that he’s right.  A [...]

How I survived China

November 3, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Great article sent by a friend in DC on the health hazards of living in China.  A few things that stuck out: 1 – Micro-particulate pollution – in terms of the human cost, this is more concerning than CO2: Another way to know this is via a clandestine air-quality station that the U.S. Embassy has [...]

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