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August 11, 2005

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Daily linklets 11th August

Can anyone compete with China? Lessons from Japan. The short answer is yes(via Gordon).
US Fed member Richard Fisher talks about big and little China and rightly opines the Middle Kingdom is not the economic ogre many think. This is today's must read (via CDT).
Malaysia can be thankful for one thing: it's not purple.
Malaysia has also decided its Air Pollution Index is no longer a state secret.
Yahoo is buying into China e-commerce site Alibaba, for a measly US$1 billion. This internet thingy is going to be big.
Thank goodness Danwei's meme alert was running on Time. Where can I buy that meme alert software?
The price of working the black seam to keep China's economy going.
It's not easy running a Chinese restaurant at the best of times, let alone in downtown Baghdad.
Move over whale meat, here comes penguin.
Google News unblocked in China?
An excellent piece from Running Dog on Mao and history, especially the last two paragraphs.
Japan's death row.
The cynical traveler goes to Thailand, including some incredibly funny photo captions.
Islam, french kissing and doggie style.
(15:00) The peanuts for peace strategy. But Maximum Leader is thinking too small - trade peanuts with the insurgents in Iraq? A nut for a nut, if you will.
Stephen Green in the FEER says get ready for China's Greenspan, a look at the future of China's monetary policy.
Patterns of upheaval in modern Chinese history.

posted by Simon on 08.11.05 at 03:29 PM in the Daily linklets category.

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Comments:

As always, great links. I particularly enjoyed the top two. "China's Economic Growth" by Richard Fisher is one of few superb economny articles published recently.

I was relieved that Mr. Fisher mentioned purchasing-power-parity as you'd have gone to America and spanked him had he not.

Two "Little China" statistics jumped off the page for me: the U.S. has 19,497 airports; China, just 126 and on a straight U.S. dollar basis (not adjusted for purchasing power parity), their economy is roughly the size of California’s, 1/30 of US PER CAPITA GDP.

Amazing fugures.

posted by: Martyn on 08.11.05 at 07:09 PM [permalink]

A bit of perspective always helps. The difference is China's growth rate is more than double that of the US, but it is going off a much, much lower base.

I talked about this a while back...here they are:

If China was America and other absurdities

and

China's economic development

posted by: Simon on 08.11.05 at 07:19 PM [permalink]

Thanks, will chekc them out.

posted by: Martyn on 08.11.05 at 07:23 PM [permalink]

The best linklet ever,
Thanks!

posted by: lin on 08.12.05 at 07:08 AM [permalink]