by Greg T. Spielberg Come the first day of school, roughly 600 Oakland County (Mich.) students will be tossing Chinese textbooks into their backpacks on the way to class. Over the past two years, the number of high schools offering Chinese has jumped from four to 23 out of the 28 districts in this Detroit-metro [...]
China’s intensifying crackdown on media cannot be disputed; in recent months the Great Firewall has impacted the ability to access information through outlets like Twitter and Facebook while China’s government has employed new tactics in an attempt to have some control over the news. And, with instances of unrest as seen in Xinjiang and Shishou, [...]
China’s state-owned enterprises may find new relevance in the West as some private corporations, like General Motors, transition to management by the US government. Greg Anderson, a Finance/China specialist and Ph.D. candidate at UCLA, could not have predicted the timeliness of his dissertation focus when he first set out to research the differences between state-owned [...]
Proposed reforms to strengthen global environmental integrity have recently focused on two key nations, the US and China, requiring intense commitment and compromise from both parties. China continues to make efforts toward building a “greener” country, but it also struggles to find a balance between economic development and environmental responsibility. Joel B. Eisen, a Fulbright [...]
In today’s uncertain economic climate, China has rapidly become a land of opportunity as more Westerners leave behind their home countries to chase after the potential for success in the East. China is now a formidable world leader in technology and manufacturing, luring both talent and innovation from all points on the globe. I linked [...]
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