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Are Chinese Business Partnerships a Good Deal for U.S. Companies?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june12/china2_02-17.html
This PBSNewsHour program from 17. Feb. 2012 considers a joint venture called Oriental DreamWorks launched Friday as Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping wrapped up a U.S. tour. Jeffrey Brown discusses the benefits and drawbacks of U.S.-China business partnerships with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations' Stephen Orlins and University of California, Irvine's Peter Navarro.

International Monetary Fund Update: Country Report No. 11/32 
People's Republic of China: Financial System Stability Assessment
This report is based on the IMF/World Bank Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) exercise for China undertaken during June–December 2010. The assessment concluded that reforms have progressed well in moving to a more commercially-oriented financial system. Despite success and rapid growth, China’s financial sector is confronting several near-term risks, structural challenges, and policy-induced distortions. The main sources of risks are: 
(i) the effects of a rapid crisis-related credit expansion on credit quality, 
(ii) growing off-balance sheet exposures and disintermediation, 
(iii) a reversal in rapidly rising real estate prices, and 
(iv) an increase in imbalances due to the current economic growth pattern. 
Medium-term vulnerabilities—the relatively inflexible macroeconomic policy framework, and the government’s important role in credit allocation and in the financial sector at the central and provincial levels—are building up contingent liabilities and could impair the needed reorientation of the financial system to support China’s future growth. A properly composed and timely implemented set of reforms would help address these challenges. This will require further progress in multiple areas, including 
(i) deepening the commercial orientation of banks and other financial firms; 
(ii) moving to more market-based means of influencing monetary and financial conditions; 
(iii) continued strengthening of the capacity of the central bank on financial stability issues, and that of the supervisory commissions; 
(iv) further development of financial markets and instruments to deepen and strengthen China’s financial system; and 
(v) upgrading the framework for financial stability, crisis management, and resolution arrangement. 
Moving along this path, however, will pose additional risks and new situations. Hence, priority must be given to establishing the institutional and operational preconditions that are crucial to successfully managing a wide-ranging financial reform agenda, and the intent outlined in the latest 12th Five-Year Plan.

One Planet - China, Banker to the World
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00lf06s/One_Planet_China_Banker_to_the_World
As European leaders have so clearly demonstrated in recent weeks - if you need some cash quick, it's the Chinese you now turn too. The world's most populous nation has become the world's favourite banker. Already across the developing world, China has overtaken the World Bank to become the main lender. Chinese cash is being used to build dams, roads, hospitals and farms from Venezuala to Ghana. And as the crisis in the Eurozone shakes the world economy, Western governments are now keen to attract Chinese loans and investments too - but what will China's rise mean for the rest of the world? With this program from the BBC's One Planet, we find out more about China's growing power and influence. We visit Chinese-funded projects in Ecuador and Zambia, hear why campaigners in the West fear Chinese investment could undermine global progress on human rights and development issues, and a Chinese banker tells us why it's time the West realised China has the upper hand.

Last Train Home
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec11/efp_09-22.html
In "Last Train Home" filmmaker Lixin Fan documents the migration of millions of Chinese workers during the Chinese New Year -- the largest human migration in the world -- through the prism of one family. This documentary is part of a series of independently produced films aired in partnership between The Economist and the PBSNewsHour.

Lateline: US, China can live in peace: Campbell (12/08/2011)
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3292671.htm
ABC Lateline host Ali Moore discusses the future of US China relations with Kurt Campbell, US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs.

FRBSF Economic Letter: The U.S. Content of “Made in China” (2011-25, 8/8/2011)
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2011/el2011-25.html?utm_source=home
This Economic Letter from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco asks, "....The United States is running a record trade deficit with China. This is no surprise, given the wide array of items in stores labeled “Made in China.” This Economic Letter examines what fraction of U.S. consumer spending goes for Chinese goods and what part of that fraction reflects the actual cost of imports from China. We perform a similar exercise to determine the foreign and domestic content of all U.S. imports.....".

Rebalancing China's Economic Growth - Some Insights from Japan's Experience
w911E05.pdf
This article from the "Bank of Japan Working Paper Series" is a great thought piece on the evolving nature of growth in the Chinese economy, how its likely to change over time, with insights from the Japanese experience in the 1970's.

International Monetary Fund - Country Report - China
Staff Report for the 2011 Article IV consultation, prepared by a staff team of the IMF, following discussions that ended on June 9, 2011, with the officials of China on economic developments and policies. Based on information available at the time of these discussions, the staff report was completed on June 27, 2011. 

The consultation examined the macroeconomic outlook, the potential for a property price bubble, the risks to the banking system, and the policy measures underpinning the 12th Five-Year Plan. The mission drew on the work of the FSAP—to connect financial sector reform to macroeconomic rebalancing—and of the spillover team—to trace out the international implications of rebalancing in China.

Chinese Posters
http://chineseposters.net/index.php
chineseposters.net is dedicated to the Chinese propaganda poster as it has been produced from 1925 till the present day. The posters are in a gallery of highlights, in web exhibitions ("To Read Too Many Books is Harmful"), and in themes. The site provides related images as well as additional information in artists' biographies, a bibliography and a selection of texts on Chinese art, propaganda and posters. This website aims to present Chinese propaganda posters through virtual exhibitions, theme presentations and a web-database. It also provides additional information in the form of biographical notes of poster artists, resources, etc. The website is owned and maintained by the Chinese Posters Foundation. Stefan R. Landsberger (Leiden University, University of Amsterdam) is editor and responsible for contents; Marien van der Heijden (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) is co-editor and website designer.

Growing Dissent From Youth, Labor Unions Spark Rare Protests in China
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june11/china_06-30.html
This 2011 PBS Newshour report by John Sparks was sent from the southeastern city of Xintang, which saw four days of protest in recent weeks.

Peter Day's World of Business - Managing China (30th April 2011 podcast)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/worldbiz
An interesting interview with Charles-Edouard Bouée from strategy consultants Roland Berger in which Peter Day discusses differences between American and Chinese people management philosophies and disciplines. For more on the issue refer to Charles-Edouard Bouée's book on Chinese management practice "China's Management Revolution - Spirit, Land, Energy", Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010.

Identifying the Linkages Between Major Mining Commodity Prices and China's Economic Growth - Implications for Latin America
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2011/wp1186.pdf
In this 2011 International Monetary Fund Working Paper, Associate Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of the Macroeconomics Division in the Party School of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, Yongzhen Yu looks at the long term implications for the Latin American nations from China's economic growth. He then sees them as mostly remaining supportive over both a 5 year and 10 year time horizon, even though economic growth in China could slow down in the latter half of the coming decade.

Mixed Frequency Forecasts for Chinese GDP
In this 2011 Bank of Canada working paper, Economist and Assistant Chief of the International Economic Analysis Department, Philipp Maier discusses different approaches for using monthly indictors to predict Chinese GDP for the current and next year. He finds that a three-modelling approach yields significantly improved results (with Root Mean Square Errors (RMSEs) some 60% lower) over conventional Auto Regressive (AR) benchmarks.

China Property Boom
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fd282
This 2011 BBC program asks, why the entire world should be worried about soaring property prices in China? Justin Rowlatt goes both high-rise and underground to explore the extremes of the Beijing property market. He speaks to Jimmy Ye, a wealthy businessman who owns a gigantic wine cellar packed with exclusive European vintages. He also meets some of the have-nots, people with incomes who simply can't afford the spiraling prices of apartments in the city. Chen Xiafeng is a would-be property buyer who, even though she has a mortgage, doesn't have time to put money down on a flat before someone else has bought it. She hopes the property market will cool down. One of Beijing's leading property lawyers Bing Qin, fears for the consequences if it does not.
 
China's Green Revolution
This 2011 BBC program, looks at the fact that China's leaders say they want to clean up Chinese industry and invest in renewable low carbon technologies, but why? Is this about tackling global warming or does China just want to get a share of the booming clean energy market. Justin Rowlatt talks Dr Shi Zhengrong founder of the world's biggest solar panel manufacturer, Suntech. He also speaks to Daniel Foa, founder of FairKlima Capital who works with a local micro financing scheme to encourage investment in a novel low carbon technology - collecting bio-gas from pig waste which creates methane for a continuous supply of gas for home cooking.
 
This 2011 BBC program looks at Germany and China, which are two of the world's most successful exporters but increasingly they find they are on the same turf. As China moves away from simple manufacturing it needs technology. But there is a warning from Germany that China will take German technology? Artur Fischer, the head of the Berlin Stock Exchange, used to be involved in manufacturing. He tells Steve Evans that when businesses outsourced to factories in China, they found that the Chinese had copied their goods and then tried to sell them back to Germany. China says it is clamping down on the piracy of products. Stephen Wong is the director of the Hong Kong trading office in Berlin and tells Steve how China is going about this.

China's Current 5-Year Plan
This is the official website of China's 12th Five Year Plan, the roadmap for Chinese development to 2017.
These 2011 articles highlight the measures the People's Bank of China is implementing in its effort to curb inflation. We think the extent to which this might slow growth of the Chinese economy and the implications this will have on the growth of the global economy appear to be underestimated by many investors.

The Relationship Between China and the United States
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11382
A 2011 Charlie Rose interview with Carter Administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brezinski on China...& his book " Second Chance - Three Presidents and the crisis of American Superpower" is excellent.
 
China's Empty Homes
This 2010 BBC World Service - Business Daily program discusses how China is preparing new measures to attack rising inflation. It has already tried to slow down its galloping economy by cutting back bank lending and bringing in measures to deflate the bubble in property prices. Millions of middle class Chinese have gambled on buying new apartments. It's even reported that speculators are hoarding a large number of properties to fuel price rises.
 
China's Economy - Does Size Matter?
In this 2010 BBC World Service - Business Daily program, the question is asked: Just how big is China's economy? They dig through the numbers in Beijing, and ask if state capitalism is the right model to keep growth on track? Yasheng Huang, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shares his view.
 
An Australian Perspective on China
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11328
2010 Charlie Rose interview with former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating on the changing role of China and Asia in the global economy and politics.

e-Commerce in China - the Alibaba story
2010 Charlie Rose interview with Jack Ma, Founder and Chairman of Alibaba.

The Tea Thieves: How A Drink Shaped An Empire
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125237353
This excellent 2010 npr program is about one of the earliest instances of corporate espionage recorded. "For All the Tea In China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History" by Sarah Rose, covers off on how in the 1850's tea plantings found their way from China to India.

Global Business - Chinese Hare, Indian Tortoise?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00c6k4m/Global_Business_Chinese_Hare_Indian_Tortoise/
In this 2010 BBC program, Peter Day asks two expert witnesses to compare the two countries vying for the position of number one in the world economy: India and China. Is it a race, and if so, which of them will win?

The Biggest Domino
A 2010 ABC "Foreign Correspondent" program by Stephen McDonell in which he takes a closer look at the apparently unstoppable growth of the Chinese economy 

China - Hidden bank loans
In this 2010 interview with credit rating agency Fitch's Charlene Chu she discusses how Chinese banks have been taking risky loans off-balance sheet and packaged them up as securities in trust companies.

Observations of China, From Behind the Wheel
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123499063
In this 2010 interview about his book "Country Driving", Peter Hassler describes his observations on changes in rural China as its population migrates towards large industrialised cities. 

China's Ghost Cities - The Great Growth Dis-connect
The above items are likely to send a chill down the spine of believers in the Chinese growth story...

China: Shaking the World
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries
As China takes on an ever more important role in the global economy, this 2010 BBC documentary considers how its influence is growing by examining political, economic and cultural aspects in this transformation. The four part series presented by Michael Robinson, a BBC China reporter in the early 1990's, now returning and recording his observations:
  • Part one: Infrastructure transformation
  • Part two: State planned China and free market ideology
  • Part three: The management of social tension
  • Part four: Can the Chinese model that has worked so well for 30 years continue to deliver growth for the next 30 years?
Determinants of China's Private Consumption: An International Perspective
This 2010 working paper by the International Monetary Fund, analyses why between 1980 and 2008 Chinese private consumption as a % of GDP dropped from 55% to just 37%.

The Myth of Asia's Miracle
In this 1994 article Nobel Prize laureate in Economics and Economics Professor at Stanford University Paul Krugman takes a look at economic growth in China via the prism of productivity gains.

Indian Economic Planning
In 1963 Milton Freedman wrote about "planned economic development" in an Indian economic context, after spending some time with the Indian Ministry of Finance in 1955. The note is of relevance to Chinese economic development consideration, and some of the pitfalls that may emerge over time.

On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party
These selected works of Mao Tse-tung from 1929, outline the approach to collective decision making. This work has been influential in forming the thinking of other political leaders, especially in North Korea.