China

Magazine articles on politics and society in China and Hong Kong.

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BusinessWeek February 14, 2005 Bremner & Roberts	China: Fuzzy Numbers No More? Statistics could improve if Beijing's new economic census is a success.
BusinessWeek February 14, 2005 Brian Bremner	If Beijing Revalues... The government's concern is that revaluation might slow exports and put the brakes on job creation -- which Beijing desperately needs to house and feed the 10 million citizens who join the workforce every year.
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Dexter Roberts	China: Sticking To The Fast Lane Beijing won't be doing much to tame the nation's sizzling growth.
AFP eWire January 24, 2005	Hong Kong Billionaire to Establish Large Canadian Foundation A Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist has announced he will establish a new charitable foundation in Canada with start-up funding expected to be in the hundreds of millions, and possibly billions, of dollars (Canadian).
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Frederik Balfour	Fakes! The global counterfeit business is out of control, targeting everything from computer chips to life-saving medicines. Pick any product from any well-known brand, and chances are there's a counterfeit version of it out there. It's so bad that even China may need to crack down.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Dexter Roberts	Will China Mourn Zhao? The middle class Zhao Ziyang's reforms helped create doesn't want to worry about politics.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Dexter Roberts	The Great Wail Of China Disastrous pension predicaments are an example of the tremendous challenges facing a rapidly aging but still relatively poor China.
BusinessWeek January 24, 2005 Bruce Einhorn	So Much For China's "Great Healer" With China's influence growing from Asia to the Americas, President Hu Jintao seems to feel little external pressure for political reform at home. Optimists looking for him to promote a new, more open China should settle in for a long wait.
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Dexter Roberts	China: A Workers' State Helping The Workers? With nationalism on the rise, Beijing's leaders can win easy political capital by fingering labor practices at multinationals. But don't expect a powerful union movement to emerge in China.
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Frederik Balfour	Bolstering China's Banks Beijing seems serious about bank reform, and bad-loan burdens are easing. China is racing to upgrade its banking system in advance of a 2007 WTO deadline for fully opening the sector to foreign competition.
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