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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 »