WSJ: China’s Solyndra Economy
I had a new op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, which you can read below or view the original here. At the very last moment, one paragraph was cut from the final version, presumably due to space...
View ArticleInterviews on CNN and NPR
Here are links to two interviews I did recently with major U.S. media outlets: The first is a 5-minute interview on CNN last Monday about the mounting bad debt problem in China’s banking system and its...
View ArticleNPR: What’s Going Wrong With China’s Solar Industry?
Yesterday, I was on National Public Radio (NPR) talking about the meltdown in China’s heavily subsidized solar industry, as a follow up to my Wall Street Journal op-ed on that topic last month. You...
View ArticleBoao Review: The Realities of Renminbi Internationalization
I have an article in the October 2012 issue of Boao Review, the new journal published by the Boao Forum, on what the future may hold for China’s currency, the Renminbi. I am told the article will be...
View ArticleSinica Podcast: Party Congress Preview
You know you’ve hit the big time in China when you’re invited as a guest on Kaiser Kuo’s Sinica Podcast. This week, I joined Kaiser’s co-host Jeremy Goldkorn of danwei.com for a discussion about...
View ArticleBloomberg: Challenges China’s New Leadership Faces
On Friday, I was on Bloomberg TV talking about China’s latest economic data for October (at the time of my interview, only the inflation figures had been announced), and some of the key challenges...
View ArticleForeign Policy: Clash of the Balance Sheets
I had a new article this week in Foreign Policy magazine on what may seem like an awfully arcane topic — a standoff between US and Chinese regulators over audit standards — but in fact has potentially...
View ArticleEnter the New Year
I took a bit of a blogging break for the holidays, so this is a catch-up post. Just before Christmas I appeared on another edition of Sinica Podcast, this one focused on the looming clash between the...
View ArticleWhat Causes Revolutions?
A surprising number of people in China have been writing and talking about “revolution”. First came word, in November, that China’s new leaders have been advising their colleagues to read Alexis de...
View ArticleTwins!
If you want to know why I haven’t been writing much recently, here’s the reason: This Tuesday, January 29, at 6:45am, my wife Frances gave birth to twin baby girls. Alice Chovanec (Chinese name Cheng...
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