Full Contents - June 2005


COMMENTARY

  • China and the world

  • Former President Bill Clinton, speaking before a meeting of the American Jewish Committee in Washington in early May, observed that President Bush had given him four tax cuts since taking office - and the US had to borrow money from China to pay for each one.

  • Picking up signals

  • Humankind has many imperfections, among them a chronic inability to act on signals until the last minute.

REVIEW

  • Chinese values

  • So what is the yuan really and truly worth?

  • Setting standards

  • Tired of marching to outside drummers, China wants to write specs and standards others will have to follow.

  • First things first

  • Sort out cross-strait economic integration and the rest will follow. Well, that's how some see it.

  • A lot to lose

  • China and Japan have good economic reasons for being friends.

  • Kind of affordable

  • Hong Kong property buyers are exercising options they no longer have at home.
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