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Twins! 1 Feb 2013 | 08:03 pm
If you want to know why I haven’t been writing much recently, here’s the reason: This Tuesday, January 29, at 6:45am, my wife Frances gave birth to twin baby girls. Alice Chovanec (Chinese name Cheng...
What Causes Revolutions? 13 Jan 2013 | 06:47 pm
A surprising number of people in China have been writing and talking about “revolution”. First came word, in November, that China’s new leaders have been advising their colleagues to read Alexis de T...
Enter the New Year 9 Jan 2013 | 08:26 pm
I took a bit of a blogging break for the holidays, so this is a catch-up post. Just before Christmas I appeared on another edition of Sinica Podcast, this one focused on the looming clash between the ...
Foreign Policy: Clash of the Balance Sheets 12 Dec 2012 | 04:24 pm
I had a new article this week in Foreign Policy magazine on what may seem like an awfully arcane topic — a standoff between US and Chinese regulators over audit standards — but in fact has potentially...
Bloomberg: Challenges China’s New Leadership Faces 12 Nov 2012 | 08:08 am
On Friday, I was on Bloomberg TV talking about China’s latest economic data for October (at the time of my interview, only the inflation figures had been announced), and some of the key challenges fac...
Bloomberg: Challenges China’s New Leadership Faces 12 Nov 2012 | 08:08 am
On Friday, I was on Bloomberg TV talking about China’s latest economic data for October (at the time of my interview, only the inflation figures had been announced), and some of the key challenges fac...
Sinica Podcast: Party Congress Preview 27 Oct 2012 | 08:14 pm
You know you’ve hit the big time in China when you’re invited as a guest on Kaiser Kuo’s Sinica Podcast. This week, I joined Kaiser’s co-host Jeremy Goldkorn of danwei.com for a discussion about Chin...
Sinica Podcast: Party Congress Preview 27 Oct 2012 | 08:14 pm
You know you’ve hit the big time in China when you’re invited as a guest on Kaiser Kuo’s Sinica Podcast. This week, I joined Kaiser’s co-host Jeremy Goldkorn of danwei.com for a discussion about Chin...
Boao Review: The Realities of Renminbi Internationalization 20 Oct 2012 | 03:45 pm
I have an article in the October 2012 issue of Boao Review, the new journal published by the Boao Forum, on what the future may hold for China’s currency, the Renminbi. I am told the article will be ...
Boao Review: The Realities of Renminbi Internationalization 20 Oct 2012 | 03:45 pm
I have an article in the October 2012 issue of Boao Review, the new journal published by the Boao Forum, on what the future may hold for China’s currency, the Renminbi. I am told the article will be ...
