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• 反倾销，老生常谈还是贸易战的开端? Anti-dumping: Old Story or the Trigger of a New Trade War?

  
  The China Sourcing Blog — Authority: 112
  Building on the last post on this blog regarding protectionism, trade protectionism is now a big concern in China. Chinese GDP relied heavily on foreign trade before the financial crisis. As one of the three engines of Chinas GDP growth, the exporting sector has just started to recover in 2009, but it now faces the ...
  12 hours ago

• Two Ts and an M

  
  Aristotle The Geek — Authority: 122
  Parochialism is not a new phenomenon in politics. Neither is hypocrisy. Therefore, when Raj Thackeray is criticized for his “sons of the soil” position on employment, and nothing is said when such discrimination is practiced at the national level, one shouldn’t be surprised. I am referring to this statement by ...
  21 hours ago

• Asia-Pacific ministers warn economic crisis not over

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Singapore, Nov 11 (DPA) Ministers of the Asia-Pacific economies Wednesday warned that the global economic crisis was not yet over, saying the situation was still fragile despite the current upturn.“The consensus is that this (crisis) is by no means over,” said Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo after hosting a ...
  1 day ago

• Pandering to populism

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 133
  Buy American: Bad for America | Marc Gunther . Got this non-economic, good common sense analysis of anecdotes surrounding the “Buy American” provision in the US stimulus package from Knowledge Problem . It seems that pandering to protectionism, populism and assorted - isms is hurting American companies, more ...
  1 day ago

• Standing still = falling behind in the Pacific Rim

  
  Daniel W. Drezner — Authority: 544
  Throughout the course of the Bush administration, a constant irritant in the Asia/Pacific region was Bushs tendency to place antiterrorism at the top of the queue in Asia/Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) discussions.  Not that anti-terrorism wasnt important, but APEC was not the proper forum for that -- APEC is ...
  2 days ago

• Obama’s pipe police in the bastion of free enterprise!

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 146
  For the complete story, click here. National Post – November 7, 2009 Canada-made pipes pulled from ground in California By Natalie Stechyson, Canwest News Service OTTAWA – For the second time in six months, pipe fittings in California are being ripped from the ground because they were stamped “Made in ...
  2 days ago

• Shadows of Protectionism - Obamas Visit Not a Moment Too Soon

  
  The China Sourcing Blog — Authority: 112
  The European Unions trade commissioner, Catherine Ashton, claimed in a document released last week that despite 223 restrictive trade measures since October 2008, a protectionist worst-case scenario has been avoided , especially as the Group of 20 leaders made commitments to protect free trade. Yet a spokesman from ...
  3 days ago

• Developed world should shun protectionism: Anand Sharma

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Commerce Minister Anand Sharma Sunday said if developed countries resorted to protectionist measures, it could lead to prolonging the economic slowdown.“If countries go in for protectionist measures, this could be counter-productive and only prolong recession,” Sharma told delegates at the ...
  4 days ago

• India to sustain and enhance global engagements: Anand Sharma

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi, Nov.8 (ANI): Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma addressed a session on “Reinforcing Economic Imperatives: India’s Global Engagements” at the 25th India Economic Summit jointly organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry and World Economic Forum in New Delhi. Speaking at the session, he ...
  4 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  4 days ago

• ‘Buy American horror stories’ in Canada

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 664
  The Canadian daily National Post has a good piece out today that highlights how the ‘Buy American’ provision is being seen in Canada.  Many see it as an affront that America could and would favor domestic firms over those of its largest trading partner and next-door neighbor despite the North American Free Trade ...
  5 days ago

• China: we “will take steps to protect the interests of our domestic industries”

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 664
  China on Friday accused the US of protectionist and biased trade policies less than a week before president Barack Obama’s first visit to Beijing. In a stinging rebuke to Washington, China’s commerce ministry promised to take measures to protect its domestic industry after the US slapped anti-dumping duties on ...
  5 days ago

• E.U. Finds Trade Barriers Rising Since Global Crisis

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  But a report from the European Union suggests there is no sign of the spiral of protectionism that some feared when the worldwide downturn took hold last year.
  6 days ago

• Economic nationalism and GM’s decision to keep Opel and Vauxhall

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 664
  I have been reading press accounts of the GM decision to back out of the Opel/Vauxhall sale to the Magna/Sberbank consortium from various countries. There are a lot of different perspectives on this event in the U.S., Belgium, Spain, Germany, Russia, the U.K and elsewhere, because a lot of players are involved. The ...
  6 days ago

• Dollar perspective and complications

  
  Economist Online — Authority: 126
  Interview of Nail Ferguson at Harvard: Chinas peg to the US dollar makes other export countries export more expensive, adding pressure to currency intervention of those countries to support the dollar. Chinas fixing its currency to the dollar also increases speculative activities across borders, leading the one-way ...
  1 week ago

• WHATS A SELF-STYLED ZIONIST?

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  ... As for "self-styled [Zionist]," I put it that way because they are not Zionists. This is spiritually deep. David was admittedly confused. Zion was more than he knew. He knew it was supposed to be peaceful. He blamed those outside for starting the fighting. The real Zion is the peaceful Heaven in your mind and ...
  1 week ago

• China: reflation play spells trouble for rest of the world

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 664
  Marshall Auerback here. You saw Ed’s last post on China , quoting from Peter Tasker, one of the top analysts in Japan when I lived there. I take Peter’s insights very seriously. His analysis implies something a lot more in regards to currencies, trade and credit. China’s bank credit expansion is so great that ...
  1 week ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• Caring for What Happens in the World vs Moral Indifference or Moral Apathy

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  I guess we all have, now and again, the feeling that it’s strange that we go about our business as usual, being content or even happy, when at the same time in another place in the world, someone is suffering, being tortured, killed, raped or whatever. Normally, we don’t think about these facts, because that would ...
  1 week ago

• China spending worries economists – video news report

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  China spending worries economists – Melissa Chan from Al Jazeera News video report from Beijing, 30 Oct 09. China’s economy has bounced back from the global financial crisis, expanding 8.9 per cent in the third quarter, the envy of the world, leading the global recovery, or so goes conventional thinking. But ...
  1 week ago

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