Brief Note on the Trade Shootout
It is no surprise to anyone familiar with Chinese thinking on foreign policy or negotiating practice that China is balking at changing its laws to reflect what the American negotiators apparently thought had been previously agreed. From the Reuters article – In each of the seven chapters of the draft trade deal, China …
My First Protest
February, 2015 We are in Jingzhou, Qing’s home town in Hubei Province. We went out with Ben for a walk, and the Jingzhou district government compound is less than a block away. The district is an urban subdivision, akin to a ward in Chicago, though much bigger than a ward.The district compound …
Huawei – Taking a Fall, Hoping for a Call
Pardon the soccer reference. But to my mind, that is the Huawei move. But Huawei has the support of the fans, at least in China, and they are vocal.Don Clarke, professor of law at George Washington University, has penned this response to the declaration of the Zhong Lun law firm …
A Note on the Middle Income Trap
In the last couple of years, a number of China political observers have commented on the dangers to China of the middle income trap. The fear is that the Chinese economy will fall into the trap. Since economic growth is the remaining claim to legitimacy for CCP, a substantial slowdown …
Huawei – Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas
You know the meme – when you work with bad guys, you should expect to be labeled a bad guy. I mean no disrespect to the thousands of Chinese companies doing business across the world that manage to be profitable without intimate Chinese government relations. But in our globalized, internet …
Idle Thought – last week in January, 2019
What if this past weekend were the beginning of the end for the orange haired baboon? And, in the process, the GOP were so damaged that even a Pence presidency couldn’t do much harm, and we gained a president in 2020 who was smart, thoughtful, respected intelligence and loyalty to …
