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Can Manufacturing Jobs Come Back? What We Should Learn From Apple and Foxconn

David Paul | Posted 02.13.2012 | Business

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Walmart, W. Edwards Deming, Japan, Manufacturing Jobs, Ipad, Iphone, National Science Foundation, Outsourcing, Amazon.com, Ross Perot, Denis Kucinich, Joseph Stiglitz, Steve Jobs Apple, Insourcing American Jobs, Great Recession, Foxconn, China Economy, Great Depression, Deng Xiaoping, Clint Eastwood Super Bowl Commercial, Business News
David Paul

If Americans care about where their products are made, companies will care. Therefore, even as the president promoted tax credits for insourcing -- the new word for bringing those jobs back -- perhaps another step would be to build on the power of choice.

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Modern China's Spiritual Crisis: Does it Exist?

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 01.22.2012 | World

Read More: Confucianism, Chinese Culture, Deng Xiaoping, Buddhism, China Materialism, China Modernism, China Spirituality, China Middle Class, World News
Tom Doctoroff

To the Chinese, materialism is not superficial. It is meaningful, tantamount to advancement within society and faith in the future. Run amok, however, it corrupts ambition and threatens the country's social fabric.

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Kim Jong Il & Václav Havel: The China Connection

Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 12.28.2011 | World

Read More: Deng Xiaoping, Zhao Ziyang, Economics, Vaclav Havel, Chinese Economy, Socialism, Kim Jong Il, China, North Korea, Czech Republic, World News
Julian Baird Gewirtz

In the days following the strange coincidence of December 18 -- the deaths of both Kim Jong Il, North Korea's totalitarian "Dear Leader," and Václav ...

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China's Communist Party: Not Losing Control

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 12.03.2011 | World

Read More: Cultural Revolution, Weibo, Bo Xilai, Eminent Domain, Chinese Politics, Mao Zesong, Mercantilism, Singapore, Arab Spring, Chinese Culture, Ministry of State Security, Chinese Middle Class, Prosperity Covenant, Deng Xiaoping, Micro-Blogs, Democracy in China, Chinese Pragmatism, World News
Tom Doctoroff

The future of China's political system will not be made in America or Europe.

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Mission Accomplished? What the U.S. Can Learn From China

Sam Chaltain | Posted 11.22.2011 | Education

Read More: Deng Xiaoping, Education, Education Policy, No Child Left Behind, Democracy, Finland, Education Reform, Socialism, China, Education News
Sam Chaltain

Regardless of how one feels about its mission, China's ability to align the myriad aspects of its society around such a clearly defined goal is a major contributor to its current position as an ascendant power.

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China's Worldview: Three Timeless Truths

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Yin and Yang, Hegemony, Chinese Medicine, Nature and Japan, Shanghai, Tangshan Earthquake, Yellow Mountain, Tcl, Luxury Brands in China, China, Success in China, Gao Kao, Change, The Economist, What-Color-Is-Your-Parachute, Palace Exam, Individualism in CHina, Technocracy, Contemporary Chinese Culture, Chinese Cosmology, Middle Kingdom, Yi Jing, Steve Jobs, Yellow River, Nature and China, Face, Bill Gates, Gmat, Daoism, Kung Fu, Japan, Confucianism, Evil Chaos, Harmony, Miguel Patricio, Moral Absolutes, Ni Peimin, Chinese Government, Sichuan Earthquake, Communist Party, Feng Shui, Ba Gua, Book of Changes, Deng Xiaoping, Inbev, Fish Breeding, Aftershock, Legalism, Metersbonwe, Zhaungzi, Zodiac Signs, World News
Tom Doctoroff

What is Chinese culture? Now and forever, perpetual yet shape-shifting,in modern and ancient guises, the Chinese worldview can be distilled down to ...

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Hu's on First? Key US-China Summit Ahead

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Asia Pacific, US Infrastructure Deficit, Human Rights, Robert Gates, Hu Jintao, George W. Bush, Deng Xiaoping, Hillary Clinton, Us-China Relations, China, Beijing Olympic Games, Economic Corruption, Barack Obama, US Jobs Deficit, Politics News
Steve Clemons

US-China relations -- no matter the posture that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton or Bob Gates would prefer -- remain complicated and fragile, making the upcoming summit all the more momentous.

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The End of the Keynesian Experiment

Nathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Angela Merkel, Gold Standard, Central Planning Principles, Gold, Spain, Italy, Floating Currency, Euro, Deng Xiaoping, Hu Jintao, Greece, Barack Obama, Dollar, Keynes, Portugal, Soviet Union, Business News
Nathan Lewis

It is not too long -- less than a decade I would guess -- before the Keynesian Experiment comes to an end, and the world can finally get back on a more productive and healthy track.

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Managing China: Stimulating Creativity in a Sea of Convention

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Creativity, Microsoft, Mao, Jwt, Chinese-Ambition, Cultural Truth, Challenging Convention, Employee Motivation, Innovation, Brand Truth, Brand Pioneer, Alibaba, Counselling Employees, Creativity in China, Management in China, Engagement Planning, Brand Idea, Creativity Gold Standards, Convention, Deng Xiaoping, Confucian Culture, Corporate Vision, Chinese Conformism, Innovation in China, Management, Business News
Tom Doctoroff

To liberate ambition -- the dragon in the heart -- latent in every Chinese, a leader must perform the hat trick of making subordinates feel safe enough to dive into shapeless seas.

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How China Feels About America: Dangerous Love

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Michael Jackson, Desparate Housewives, Nationalism, The Big Bang Theory, Beijing Olympics, Warren Buffet, Chinese Identity, American Self-Expression, Kobe Bryant, Apple, Nike, Yugoslavian Chinese Embassy Bombing, Chinese Nationalism, Friends, Hainan Attack, Economic Reform in China, Geroge W. Bush, Microsoft, American Hegemony, Brand China, Madonna, Beyonce, Bill Gates, 21st Centure Confucianism, China and America, Prison Break, Ameican Idol, American Individualism, Deng Xiaoping, Self-Expression, Lady GaGa, China's Sustainability, LeBron James, World News
Tom Doctoroff

The Chinese are fascinated by America, and often perplexed by our society's inherent contradictions. They are amazed a nation of 300 million self-starters does not come apart at the seams.

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Bicycles and Crises

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Deng Xiaoping, Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, Cuba, Collapse of the Soviet Union, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Twenty years ago our streets began to fill with bicycles and empty of cars. It wasn't in fashion to protect the environment, nor to get exercise, ra...

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The People's Republic of China at Sixty: The Fear of Self-Examination

Henryk Szadziewski | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Deng Xiaoping, China Uighurs, People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, China Uyghurs, China 60th Anniversary, Uyghurs, China, Uighurs, World News
Henryk Szadziewski

Just as Deng made a bold move to take China into an era of economic reform, Hu will have to make a bold move, by talking with dissenters to take China into an era of meaningful political reform.

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China: 30 Year Anniversary Of Deng Xiaoping's Reform

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Deng Xiaoping China, Deng Xiaoping, Deng Xiaoping China Reform, 30 Years China Reform, China Reform, China, Anniversary China, China Economic Reforms, World News

For those who value fine dining, the Yuebin Restaurant, tucked away in a Beijing back alley, might not be their first choice. With its whitewashed ...

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