international

www.chengduliving.com — The following is a first hand account of what went on behind the drab gray exterior of the USA Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai expo — a tale of greed, indifference, corruption, rebellion and eventually justice — written by one of the Student Ambassadors who worked there.

kristof.blogs.nytimes.com — If you search a term on Bing that is politically sensitive in China, in English the results are legitimate. Search “Tiananmen” and you’ll find out about the army firing on pro-democracy protesters in 1989. Search Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and you also get credible results.

www.foreignaffairs.org — "The prosperity of the United States and China depends on helping China further integrate into the global economic system," says Henry M. Paulson, Jr. ,U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. He has made many enemies in the last 2 weeks with his controversial plan to take 700 billion more dollars from U.S. taxpayers to bail out banks, investment firms, and mortgage companies.

www.chinalawandbusiness.com — It’s about time that the companies jointly urged the government to act in such a way. (I assume that such standards would be domestic and of course, have some ramifications for international trade as well) Now the hard question is this: will it happen?