Category Archives: Public Policy
Post G-20 Hangover: Trade Wars, Currency Manipulation & More
Downtown Seoul The G-20 meeting in Seoul earlier this month left in its wake a trail of uncertainty regarding the state of the globalView full post »
China, Japan, America
Japanese Retail Chain Uniqlo at Chengdu’s Chunxi Lu Shopping Street After spending the previous two weeks in the U.S. visitingView full post »
Thomas Friedman to America: China is Kicking Our Butt
Tianjin. Photo by Sarmu New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman was in Tianjin earlier this month for the 2010 SummerView full post »
China, America, Paul Krugman
Every few months, Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes an opinion piece lambasting China forView full post »
Happy Birthday Shenzhen: Special Economic Zone Turns 30
By now everyone knows the story of Shenzhen: a small fishing village in south China’s Guangdong Province transforms into anView full post »
Development in the Far West: Bumpy Road Ahead
Uyghur people in Xinjiang. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Marino One advantage of China’s top-down approach to urban development is theView full post »
China Housing Bubble? Maybe, But Not as Bad as You Think
Many economic analysts are convinced that China is now in the midst of a colossal housing bubble. Wendell Cox thinks otherwise. In aView full post »
The World’s Number 2 Economy…and Still a Long Way to Go
It’s fitting that the inaugural post for the China Urban Development Blog takes place just a week after it was announced that ChinaView full post »