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29 October, 2010. The classroom walls at the Hungarian-Chinese bilingual primary school here are decorated with Chinese calendars and banners. Chinese lanterns hang from the ceilings of the main entrance hall. There are stacks of new Chinese language books in...

  27 October 2010. An Indian boss gestures from the lofty window of his steel-and-glass office. Ten years ago, says Pramod Bhasin, “you couldn’t even get a cup of coffee around here.” Now the area bristles with office blocks. Gurgaon,...

6 October 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. For a long time, we have argued that the US has been in a sustained crisis since the beginning of the year 2000. Put simply, the US has been enmeshed...

4 October 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. As Deng Tsiao-Ping observed before his death, rare earth metals - which are crucial to producing all manner of "clean" high-technology - are China's oil. Despite the name, rare...

 30 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com As regular readers of this site know, we have been pretty appalled with, and confused by,  30 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com As regular...

 29 September 2010. No matter how healthy or rich Asian economies are, one thing is certain: Asians will never stop getting sick. That helps explain why Malvinder Singh left his home in New Delhi this year to move to Singapore....

22 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.comBecause China’s economic growth has been so spectacular over the past 15 or so years, many people have forgotten its pre-condition has been a general political calm in East Asia....

  14 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com Last week, we talked in detail about the central role German exports to China are playing in the current success of its economy. Despite what some consider this...

 9 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com Regular readers of this site know that a great deal of our Features and In the News items involve the interrelated issues of energy / environment / infrastructure /...

6 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com In the global rush to industrialize, and above all, make steel, the imperative element in manufacturing, iron ore has suddenly become a key element of global economics. As noted...

  1 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com As most readers of this site are aware, China has taken an unusually direct approach in insuring a steady supply of raw materials, at what it considers an...

30 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. Regular readers of this site know that, at this point in history, with the US and EU on the early downside of what is going to be a long...

09 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. In the wake of the just concluded joint conference call with members of the media by Ivan Seidenberg of Verizon and Eric Schmidt of Google re their proposal for...

5 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD. Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com We’ve often talked about our hopes for both China and India as leaders of the emerging world economy. While China has been very much in the lead, it has...

4 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com Last fall, I had what I assumed beforehand would be a relatively simple and inexpensive task: arranging for the shipping of 40 already packed boxes of books / papers...