Beijing Labor, whether organized or unorganized, is under some pressure in this part of the world, just as it seems to be in so many other countries. In Japan we stumbled into the news that the union density fell for the 31st straight year to 18.4% with more than 10,000,000 members. Indeed better than the situation …
Category: International
Internet Underwater
Beijing The South China Morning News published in Hong Kong published two full-pages on the story. CNN and BBC both flashed the crawler along the bottom of the screen that even Beijing was reporting internet slowdowns. Financial markets, trading houses, and regular businesses were virtually shutdown. The problem was simple: an earthquake in Taiwan. Undersea cables …
Tianamen Square
Bejing Brown is the color of Bejing, just as it was Shanghai, but here at least this is less a matter of the air than the stark and almost barren landscape everywhere around the city. Everything was clearer partially because we read that the weather was changing. A front was coming in from Siberia which would …