John R. MacArthur of Harpers Magazine tells Bill Moyers that the TPP is a way to send more jobs to Vietnam, Malaysia and other countries. Full Show: Democrats Bow Down to Wall StreetMoyers & Company, December 12, 2014 Negotiators from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are in Washington this week for a new round…
What that “Made in China” label really means. This isn’t NRO’s dedicated China spot, but I’ve got one last CCP piece to write before moving back to more cheerful subjects. [by Josh Gelernter | December 13, 2014 | National Review] There was big news last week: that China had overtaken the U.S. as the…
President Obama acknowledged Dec. 3 that the Chinese exercise of cybertheft is “indisputable.” While he encouraged American CEOs to speak out about China’s behavior, others, such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, could not be more eager to pander to senior Chinese officials in order to nudge his way into a lucrative new market. Facebook…
(Editor’s note: The US trade deficit with China provides the massive amounts of foreign cash needed to build their military.) For all the focus on maritime disputes in the South and East China Seas, there is an even greater peril in Asia that deserves attention. It is the rising salience of nuclear weapons in the…
An undercover investigation by BBC reporters into Chinese iPhone factories has found that workers are still being mistreated and that tin used in Apple Inc. gadgets could well come from dangerous illegal mines where children’s lives are put at risk. [by Karen Friar | December 19, 2014 | MarketWatch] For its “Panorama” documentary, which…
