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In China, a bitter reckoning

BEIJING When he bought his apartment last fall, Li Xiaofeng didn't even have time to read the purchase agreement. The Beijing property market was so feverish that 30 other buyers were crowded into the sales office, and dozens of units had already been ...

From GEOFFREY YORK, Globe and Mail,  25 Nov 2008

China's journey to the dark ages

BEIJING In the skies over China and South Asia, the sun itself is disappearing. The biggest cities are becoming darker as they fall beneath a vast brown cloud of soot, and even North America is vulnerable to the drifting toxic cloud. That's the ...

From GEOFFREY YORK, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2008

Chinese package a boon for rail projects

BEIJING China's announcement of a massive $586-billion (U.S.) stimulus package is “very good news” for Bombardier Inc., offering the prospect of more aggressive Chinese investment in the types of railway projects where the company has emerged as a top ...

From GEOFFREY YORK, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2008

Senior Chinese leaders taunt Tibetan leader, speak of his passing

BEIJING After the near-total breakdown of talks between China and the Dalai Lama's representatives, Beijing has made it bluntly clear that it is looking beyond the Dalai Lama to the era that will follow his death. The 73-year-old Tibetan leader, who ...

From GEOFFREY YORK, Globe and Mail,  11 Nov 2008

China unleashes massive budget to ward off crisis

BEIJING China has announced an ambitious $586-billion (U.S.) plan to bolster its faltering economy, focusing on domestic demand as the key to salvaging the extraordinary growth rates that have turbocharged the global economy for the past decade. The ...

From GEOFFREY YORK, Globe and Mail,  10 Nov 2008

Breakaway ANC faction could signal shift in power

JOHANNESBURG In a potentially seismic shift in South African politics, a breakaway faction of the African National Congress has decided to form a new political party that could threaten the ANC's monopoly on power for the first time since the apartheid ...

From GEOFFREY YORK, Globe and Mail,  2 Nov 2008

Obama becomes the people's favourite in China

BEIJING Ten months ago, Barack Obama was vilified in China for his attack on the hazards of Chinese-made toys. His threat to ban imports of the toys was denounced as "irrational" in the state media, and he was accused of "victimizing" China. Today, all ...

From GEOFFREY YORK, Globe and Mail,  31 Oct 2008

How the crunch stole Christmas

BEIJING For the Chinese factories that churn out Christmas toys and Christmas trees, the holiday season has lost a lot of its cheer this year. For many, the season is becoming bleaker all the time. Normally, the toy makers would be operating around the ...

From GEOFFREY YORK, Globe and Mail,  24 Oct 2008

UN blasts China's food-safety system

BEIJING China's archaic and disjointed system of food safety has worsened its tainted-milk scandal, endangering lives and allowing crooks to exploit weaknesses in the rules, the United Nations says. The contaminated dairy-product crisis, which has ...

From GEOFFREY YORK, Globe and Mail,  22 Oct 2008

Sputtering demand puts brakes on China's growth

BEIJING Faced with an unexpectedly sharp decline in its economic growth, China is hastily cobbling together a package of fiscal stimulus measures in hopes of avoiding a more painful unravelling of its economic boom. China disclosed yesterday that its ...

From GEOFFREY YORK, Globe and Mail,  20 Oct 2008

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