When the President and Congress consider trade legislation, a wide range of interest groups gather to advance their agendas. These agendas are not always obvious, and sometimes corporate and union interests misdirect the public...
[Full post at NCPA Debate Central here] Rapid industrialization caused vast pollution across industrializing China. But as market-reforms opened the Chinese economy, international investment and trade benefited both Chinese workers and consumers around the...
Bagoly mondja verébnek, hogy nagyfejű. (English version: “Pot calling the kettle black.” Many other cultures here. ) In “United States Challenges Excessive Chinese Support for Rice, Wheat, and Corn” (September, 2016), the Office of...
Around the contested Spratly Islands and under South China Sea shipping lanes are valuable fisheries, collapsed from overfishing. These fisheries could be restored with proven fisheries management successful in New Zealand, Australia, and other fisheries around the...
“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...
