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You seem to be incapable of understanding the difference between a negotiated free trade agreement and TPP, which is offered to China on a take-it or leave-it basis.

That will be problematic because then alleviating poverty will by definition be purely a matter of re-distribution rather than growth. There's intense political debate in China at the moment regarding the Chongqing model (which focus on how the cake is cut) and the Guangdong model (which focus...

You talk as if China's interested in joining something like TPP. Rural area is an important power base for the communist party. In recent years there's major effort to reduce tax burden and eliminate poverty in the countryside which should be counted as among the greatest achievement of the...

The discussion on raising national poverty line has been going on for a while and I'm glad they finally took some action. Although I do find it amusing that WSJ has chosen to ignore the fact the World Bank poverty line of $1.25 is based on PPP instead of nominal exchange rate.

Given Indian media's proven record of baseless fear mongering re China, I'm less inclined to trust an Indian newspaper's claim of accessing to an anonymous U.S. government source until the same source confirms to an U.S. media outlet.

I'm sure Indian languages will not die because of English. They'll just die because of emoticons.

Apparently it's OK to sentence someone to jail and it's OK to sentence someone to community services, but it somehow become slave labor when the two sentences are handed out together. I guess some people just lacks imagination.

No need to have sleepless nights worrying about us. We may hit a little bump next year just like everyone else, but we'll be bouncing right back. Since you're bringing India into this discussion, FYI the OECD projection for Indian growth is 7.7% (2011), 7.2%(2012) and 8.2%(2013).

Yes, we're not talented enough, that's why we're the only developing country with global top 50 engineering and technology schools. And two to boot (4 if Hong Kong is counted in). Top Universities for Engineering & Technology 2011-2012

Indians are not living in a glass house, they live in a shining city on a hill and look down upon rest of us with pity.

At least these Muslims are only making their own personal choices, unlike one Hindu-turned-Catholic Indian-American politician who tried to get creationism taught in public schools and who's a true enemy of science.

Congratulation to India for successfully exporting scientific and engineering talents to the U.S. I'm sure as time goes on the gap between India and other countries will only grow in this most promising of industries.

Don't worry, most of our companies are less than 30 years old. They're young, vibrant and will grow up in time. I think you should worry more about Indian companies, many of whom have histories as long as biggest Japanese or South Korean companies, but whose brand values can't be more different.

After Ai Weiwei published addresses and phone numbers of his critics and called on followers to harass them, an Ai Weiwei follower in Beijing was detained for threatening a law professor with physical assault including decapitation. He had intended to broadcast the assault live on the internet...

Didn't get mentioned in this article is Sima Nan's home address was also published by Ai Weiwei on Twitter and Ai has openly called his support to harass his critics. Note one of his critic, Sima Nan, is a private citizen and is being mobbed for simply criticizing Ai Weiwei on his blogs. When...

Well, some Indians here do have somewhat distorted views on international cinema. I think it's pretty natural Götterdämmerung would bring up the Chinese cinema as it's one of the more successful non-Western countries in the international film circle in the last 30 years or so. Indian did...

Pushing down real estate prices is a stated goal of the Chinese government. I doubt Wen is trying that hard just to trigger a recession.

Save yourself some trouble and don't worry about that 'poor Chinese guy'. Prof Lang is going to give a lecture in Beijing on this very day and he's charging $500 per person for admission. Now you understand why he doesn't want any video or audio recordings of his lectures to be leaked...

Oh, Larry Lang. My father likes his syndicated finance talk show. I don't find him particularly agreeable, but he provides a invaluable counterbalance to those more mainstream neoliberal economists in China. Anyway, since Indians here love Prof Lang so much I'll just quote him on Indian trade...

When confronted with facts, explains it away by inventing meaningless ideological categories. --Chapter 1, the Basics, Handbook of China-bashing. Congratulation for a job well-done!