There’s news that the Sino economy slowed again in the March quarter, with China’s GDP showing the slowest rise in a decade.
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Essential Report: Ruddnet China and budget edition
This week’s Essential Report comes in with the primaries running to the ALP 51 (down 3)/34 (up 2), for a two party preferred of 61/39 — the ALP dropping 2 points from the stratospheric highs of 63.
Will China’s cities ever be sustainable?
In China’s quest to urbanise, there is a huge potential for the country to invest in “mass-scale sustainable construction.”
Video of the Day: Python: I love Chinese
In tribute to the yellow fever currently consuming Australian politics:
The world around us with Malcolm Turnbull
The world around us with Malcolm Turnbull…
Fitzgibbon and the shadow of the Yellow Peril
Behind the Fitzgibbon debate — and not very far behind it — lurks the spectre of the Yellow Peril, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Comitatus: Newspoll reveals real “Yellow Peril”
The politics of Yellow Peril reeks of the political desperation it is, writes Possum Comitatus.
Mungo MacCallum: Rudd, Manning Clark, Mata Hari and Greg Sheridan
The Australian media sees a good spy story as only slightly less jeans-creaming than a good leadership story, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Political snippets: The News Corp bonkability index
A new height (or should that be depth) was reached this morning on the news.com.au website.
Chinese takeaway in the land of the getaway
Enticingly cheap Fiji holidays were on offer this week, just as news seeped out that China will start projects there, focussed on poverty and managing natural resources, writes Kevin Childs.
Kohler: China cracks
There must now be serious doubt about whether the crash in commodity prices since July is a short-term correction, writes Alan Kohler.
Best time to sell? When China starts buying
While the Chinese certainly aren’t alone in losing money of late, they’re certainly excelling at it, writes Adam Schwab.
Eslake: Reading the tea leaves of the Chinese rescue package
China plans to spend four trillion yuan boosting its economy. What does that tells us about the country’s economic health? By Saul Eslake, Chief Economist at ANZ Bank.
China shows no fear in priming its own economy
China has followed the lead set by Australia in boosting its economy, but it has done so on a gargantuan scale, writes Glenn Dyer.
China getting bearish on its own growth prospects
Another interest rate movement leaves no room for doubt on what China sees as the prospects for its own economy, writes Glenn Dyer.
Free flying in China – NSW Minister explains
Macdonald and his ministerial entourage accepted a private flight from Shenzen in southern China to Lanzhou in the far north-west during an official trade mission, writes Alex Mitchell.
Chinese growth to slow, but don’t expect global ruination
Chinese growth is being revised to under 10% next year, but it won’t spark a global or even an Australian recession, writes Glenn Dyer.
The global crisis: how can China help?
Despite China’s presence in the overall macro-economic equations, her voice has been rather mute. What can China do? Melbourne academic Adam Fforde investigates.
Eslake: What a Chinese slowdown means for Australia
ANZ Chief Economist Saul Eslake argues that Australia is uniquely placed to withstand an economic slowdown, however small, in China.
From poisoning dogs and cats to babies
Last year it was American dogs and cats dying of kidney failure after eating pet food containing gluten from China that was tainted with melamine. This year it is Chinese babies, writes Richard Farmer.
Garnaut’s scary glimpse into China
Last Friday Garnaut delivered the good news about China’s efforts to suppress its fossil fuel emissions. Problem is, it’s also bad news, writes Simon Grose.
Oz should follow China’s lead on car industry
China has done the most obvious thing and lifted sales taxes on cars with big engines to make them more costly: without actually saying so, it’s effectively a tax on fuel consumption, writes Glenn Dyer.
On corruption, capitalism and autocracy
Keane’s assessment of the pros and cons of autocracy vis a vis ‘democracy’ seems to me parochial and reliant on an ignorance of history, writes Guy Rundle.
