“How Antibiotic-Tainted Seafood From China Ends Up on Your Table,” (BloombergBusinessweek, December 15, 2016), describes the traditional “sustainable” Chinese use of animal waste to feed fish. Since the beginning of agriculture, animal waste has fertilized...
In “The Legacy of China’s One-Child Policy,” (Time, Dec. 13, 2016), Hannah Beach reports on the sad reality of China’s misguided 1979 policy of limiting most families to one child. Some costs of China’s family planning, which...
Earlier posts have discussed supply-chain networks that bind U.S. manufacturers with Chinese and Mexican factories producing intermediate goods and materials. “Trump’s Tough Trade Talk Could Damage American Factories,” (New York Times, December 2, 2016)...
Around the world women wash clothes and most wash by hand since they lack access to electricity or enough electricity to power a washing machine. Access to modern washing machines, like access to cars,...
For students researching US/China policy, many tweets from NCPA Debate Central here.
[Full post in Cross-Examination at NCPA Debate Central] China’s government is struggling to halt industrial and automobile pollution, even inspecting barbeques. Heavy winter smog in Beijing and other Chinese cities is ugly and causes...
Posted at Debate Central, Cross-Examination Economists Tyler Cowen & Noah Smith at Bloomberg are “Debating Free Trade and the Populist Backlash” (November 1, 2016 1:16 PM EDT). For NSDA (and NCFCA) debaters, the benefits, costs, and...
In “Why the Industrial Revolution didn’t happen in China,” (The Washington Post, October 28, 2016), economic historian Joel Moykr notes the role of political decentralization and political competition across Europe compared to China: China...
Ending the Cuba trade embargo would shift sugar production back to Cuba and away from ecologically fragile lands in the U.S. “Protect the Everglades, not sugar farmers,” (Florida Sun Sentinel, Feb 16, 2017) argues: Unfortunately, the most important...
Since mid-August posts on the U.S./China topics are at the Debate Central website. Fifteen or so years ago, NCPA invited me to provide content for their new Debate Central site. Working with David Beers,...
