By Nelson Graves Here at News-Decoder we take stock on Fridays and look ahead to the next week’s news themes. It’s a way of making sense of developments that in the digital age can go by in a flash and confuse more than illuminate. Here’s a note I...
China has drawn scorn for its efforts to propping up share prices. But President Xi Jinping may yet end up being the reformer China and the world need. A shadow of a man at the People’s Bank of China in Beijing, 11 August 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) The Chinese...
(This article was originally published by the Asia Society on ChinaFile.) By David Schlesinger When things hit their extreme, they can only move to the opposite direction — 物极必反 (wù jí bì fǎn) — is an idiom that seems to sum up perfectly punditry about...