Wednesday, January 3, 2007

The things you find when searching Asia

Since I start my Asian Studies class at the end of the month, I was skipping around the news sites this morning (that's this morning MY time which is 8 hours ahead of EST) on the subject of Asia and came across this article on American Economic Alert written by William R. Hawkins. It's his opinion on the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission's recent report. I plan on sitting down and reading the report tomorrow instead of just the quick skim I did tonight. It's getting late and I like to get up early. I would really like to look further into the forged auto parts, GM's hand in the Chinese auto market, and the fact that the USCC says the American Military buys parts for its vehicles from China.
Now, on the flip side of things, I did find this article on China's White Paper on National Defense at the English Sina site, and this one at the China Daily, and the "actual"(?) report here. Or something resembling an actual report. Sina also did mention the opening of a Best Buy in China. Pretty groovy stuffs. I'll try very hard to have a report to post later this week.
EDIT:
Yea, I take it this is a mistake lots of new bloggers make. The USCC report is very long, about 277 pages long. The China White Paper is considerably shorter and neither one can tell you anything you can't already figure out. They are both still chock full of interesting info. You cannot compare one to the other. They are completely different. Live and learn I will, live and learn.