Month: December 2011
When China meets rural America
Insight into the decline of America’s heartland in the Atlantic by Stephen Bloom, a journalism professor at the University of Iowa: An interesting sidelight to the outflow problem is the rapid influx of Chinese students at the University of Iowa. The university vigorously recruits Chinese undergraduates, and has even set up an office in Beijing […]
The AP, China and taxes
It’s not unusual to find misleading, distorted stories in the media. It’s also not unusual for me to wave off the distortions, because, well, I know better and I can glean something from the story anyway. Today, however, I want to direct you to this AP story about foreigners in China squeezed by pensions, taxes. […]