Ollie's Blog

Today’s (24 Feb) Stratfor update, Internal Divisions and the Chinese Stimulus Plan, provides a brief economic history of Chinese economic development as backdrop to an analysis of the political debate surrounding their US$600B stimulus program. The debate is apparently surprisingly public and seems to represent a genuine split in the political system. The fissure extends [...]

Tomorrow is Lunar New Year, a day celebrated with lots of fireworks throughout China and much of the rest of Asia.
Today ends the Year of the Rat and tomorrow and tomorrow starts the Year of the Ox. As James Fallows notes,
…the bovine animal in question is written 牛 and pronounced niu.
Thus if you get cards [...]