Full Contents - April 2004


COVER STORY [Premium content]

  • TV investment time

  • Television, one of the last industries to open to foreign investment, is preparing for a leap towards allowing foreign investment. Change will be big - but slow, says Joe Havely.

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

  • China's OEM Trojan Horse

  • China has become the OEM manufacturer of choice due to low labor costs and high quality standards. But are Western companies simply creating a nemesis that will come to challenge them back home?

  • Trans-Pacific chill

  • China and the United States have moved into another rough patch in relations, with squabbles about trade, tax and currency issues overshadowing ties.

  • Great Wall of standards

  • China draws a line in the sand over wireless communication standards, with Intel amongst the players on the other side of the line.

  • A moving experience

  • Logistics in China presents vast opportunities, but inefficient infrastructure is causing problems.

  • Movement on QDII

  • The QDII channel, taking foreign currency funds in the mainland out to the Hong Kong markets and beyond, appears to be opening.

  • The national report card

  • The National People's Congress annual session highlights Hu, Wen & Co's achievements and challenges.

REPORTS [Premium content]

Regional Focus

  • Banking on 2006

  • Foreign banks are steadily expanding their presence in China. Will this prove to be wise or an expression of irrational exuberance?

COMMENTARY

  • A modest proposal

  • Jonathan Swift, the British satirist, once sardonically offered what he famously called "a modest proposal" to solve the problem of poverty and overpopulation in Ireland - for parents to eat their nutritious children to keep their population numbers down.

REVIEW

China Eye

  • Brakes and throttles

  • It wasn't democracy, nor was it a great leap forward for Chinese political reform.

Fat Dragon

  • The Links of Change

  • Who would the Chinese like to see win in November George W. Bush or John Kerry?

CULTURE

Book Review

FOCUS

News briefs

  • Waiting for investment

  • Yinchuan city, capital of Ningxia region, is off the beaten track, but occupies a strategic tourism position.

  • Gordon

  • A book was published in 2001 called <i>The Coming Collapse of China</I>, written by an American lawyer named Gordon G. Chang.
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