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Category Archives: Cross-Examination
For Still-Poor China, Coal Pollution from Home Heating
Rapid industrialization spilled pollution across China’s cities, rivers, and skies. Market-reforms in the 1989s opened first agriculture and Special Economic Zones (SEZs) like Shenzhen to local enterprise and overseas investors. Market reforms and factories then expanded across China, bringing prosperity but also pollution … Continue reading
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US/China Farm Wars
Bagoly mondja verébnek, hogy nagyfejű. (English version: “Pot calling the kettle black.” Many other cultures here. ) In “United States Challenges Excessive Chinese Support for Rice, Wheat, and Corn” (September, 2016), the Office of US Trade Representative announced new action … Continue reading
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Mismanaged Fisheries Key to South China Sea [updated]
The National Interest offers an “end of the world as we know it” scenario for a potential Trump Administration/China clash: “$5 Trillion Meltdown: What If China Shuts Down the South China Sea?” (July 16, 2016) Rex Tillerson’s Senate confirmation remarks, … Continue reading
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Affirmative Case: Repeal Section 421 Tariffs on Chinese Imports
Affirmative Case: Repeal Section 421 Tariffs on Chinese Imports Fact 1: Section 421 Tariffs Discriminate Against Chinese Imports Fact 2: Section 421 Tariffs Intended to be Temporary Fact 3: Section 421 Tariffs Remain Authorized by Congress Impact 1: Lower Evidentiary … Continue reading
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U.S./China Relations: Mixing Cooperation with Competition
[NCPA Special Publication: Wednesday, December 28, 2016] by Doug Bandow “Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic and/or diplomatic engagement with the People’s Republic of China.” There is no more important bilateral relationship than that between … Continue reading
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China’s Sustainable Aquaculture: “the biggest threat to humanity?”
Public health concerns can restrict individual liberty. Typhoid Mary lost her liberty and freedom of association due to a microbe she carried, even though she was in good health. Similarly, Chinese companies raising seafood safe for U.S. consumers are creating a public … Continue reading
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The Legacy of China’s One-Child Policy
In “The Legacy of China’s One-Child Policy,” (Time, Dec. 13, 2016), Hannah Beach reports on the sad reality of China’s misguided 1979 policy of limiting most families to one child. Some costs of China’s family planning, which limited most urban families to a … Continue reading
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