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new york times hong kong bureau chief keith bradsher says strict new guidelines were introduced this summer to limit the number of new cars on guangzhou' s crowded streets .
high and mighty suvs: the world' s most dangerous vehicles and how they got that way. by keith bradsher. public affairs, $ 28; 464 pp .
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keith bradsher will relocate to the shanghai bureau of the new york times to serve as bureau chief this summer. bradsher has been serving as hong kong bureau chief for the paper since 2002. he continues to serve as a senior writer covering asia economics and business for the publication. follow the times’ world news coverage on twitter .
keith bradsher, new york times hong kong bureau chief, discusses the case against some of china' s trade practices and the implications for u. s. manufacturers - - and takes a look at how china approaches education and economic growth .
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keith bradsher, detroit bureau chief for the times, won the polk award for national reporting for his investigation into the human and financial toll sport utility vehicles and light trucks take on the nation' s roadways. mr. bradsher linked an increase in air pollution to the vehicles, which were exempt from federal emissions standards, and documented the inordinate amount of deaths related to the vehicles .
may 24, 2010 - - the asia society is pleased to announce that keith bradsher of the new york times has won the osborn elliott prize for excellence in journalism on asia for a series of stories examining china’s role in developing and promoting green technologies. bradsher’s work was chosen by an independent jury for its depth and far - reaching quality. through a dozen front - page articles, bradsher revealed how china, as one of the world’s largest polluters, has also begun to develop some of the world’s most advanced solutions to global warming and has pursued them aggressively .
keith bradsher, new york times hong kong bureau chief, discusses his investigation (with charles duhigg) about why the u. s. lost out to china for the contracts to produce apple' s iphones - - as well as revelations about the working conditions in some chinese factories where many technology products are produced .
china for the contracts to produce apple' s iphones. keith bradsher, new york times hong kong bureau chief covering asian business, economic, political and science news, discusses his investigation (with charles duhigg) about why the u. s. lost out to china for the contracts to produce apple' s iphon
a porsche is safer ,
rapaille tells bradsher, who adds that suvs leave rapaille with
a terror of rolling over .
according to norman pearlstine, chief content officer at bloomberg and former editor - in - chief of time inc. , who chairs the jury for the prize, “keith bradsher’s stories explored the underreported story of china’s environmental awakening, tracking the country’s efforts to dominate industries that will provide cleaner and more efficient energy throughout the world. ”
for the answer, test - drive this thoroughly researched, superbly readable book by keith bradsher, former detroit bureau chief for the new york times. if you' d told me i could read a 400 - plus - page take on the auto industry in one sitting - - well, you could have run me over .
volvo is becoming a chinese car company. ford announced that it sold the swedish car brand that it bought 11 years ago. chinese conglomerate, zhejiang geely, is paying a third of what ford originally paid for volvo. keith bradsher, new york times hong kong bureau chief, explains more about the buyer, the price and the future of volvo .
japan has raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis from level five to the highest level, seven. the 1986 chernobyl disaster is the only other time a nuclear emergency has been given a level seven. this decision reflects the total release of radiation at the damaged fukushima daiichi power plant, which is ongoing, rather than a sudden deterioration. reporting from tokyo is keith bradsher, reporter for the new york times. the japanese government says that the total amount of radiation is 10 percent of what was released at chernobyl and there' s still nervousness in the country, says bradsher .
boomer environmentalists, bradsher says, steered clear of attacking suvs because they were precisely the affluent types, eager to project a noncorporate, outdoorsy side, who bought them. why didn' t they tilt toward minivans? bradsher advises that consumers
quickly stereotyped
minivans as
mom - mobiles ,
something
older children would not want to be caught dead in .
bradsher' s book is that incisive: a tribute to what one hard - nosed investigative reporter can pull off, regardless of auto - industry promotion of an alternate reality, thanks to a newspaper that supported him and a fair - minded approach to the pros and cons of his subject. (the suv profit boom, bradsher recognizes, powered the u. s. economy in tough times. )
bradsher has a public policy master’s degree in economics from princeton university and received his bachelor’s degree with highest honors in economics as a morehead scholar at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. [ 1 ]
the upshot? we face, bradsher fears ,
a public policy disaster, with automakers given an enormous and unintended incentive to shift production away from cars and toward inefficient, unsafe, heavily polluting suvs .
bradsher supports his claims with data from government reports, auto - industry documents and comments of auto - industry insiders. but he sensibly begins high and mighty with a history of how the suv emerged in the early 1960s .
will bradsher' s book change any minds? suv advertising rose from $ 172. 5 million in 1990 to $ 1. 51 billion in 2000. it will take more than one stop sign to slow this marketing triumph .
bradsher thinks the situation will worsen as suvs multiply, used ones become more affordable to dangerous young male drivers, and detroit ratchets up the
highway arms race
by building taller and more unwieldy suvs because they bring bigger profits .
like the tobacco - company officials lampooned in christopher buckley' s novel thank you for smoking - - folks far too smart to smoke cigarettes, given what they know - - some of bradsher' s auto whizzes similarly eschew suvs .
bradsher explains that a tough retaliatory tariff on foreign trucks, and comparatively lenient u. s. safety regulations on the light - truck industry, protected the latter from foreign competition and the
regulatory ferment
of the 1970s that raised the cost of cars .
the strategy paid off. the midsize - suv market experienced a thirtyfold sales increase in the 1980s. and as bradsher smoothly integrates carloads of statistics that explain why motor city execs and american consumers continued pumping out suvs, he also reveals all sorts of telling paradoxes .
the nuclear crisis has escalated in japan. there have been partial meltdowns in three nuclear reactors, breaches in the protective containment walls of two of them, and a fire in another. u. s. warships have changed course because of the dangers of rising radiation, and the japanese army decided it was too dangerous to fly helicopters over the plants. but 50 workers remain at the heart of the plant, literally risking their lives to avert a catastrophe at fukushima daiichi nuclear power station. keith bradsher is the new york times hong kong bureau chief. he says that we don' t know much about these heroic workers .
in his pointed introduction, bradsher thumbnails the suv explosion and his criticisms. sport - utility vehicles, he writes ,
offer a romantic vision of outdoor adventure to deskbound baby boomers. the larger models provide lots of leg room for families and their gear. their size gives them an image of safety .
bradsher' s sources generally support his story, unapologetically suggesting that they' ve simply satisfied consumer desires .
all of the suv market was psychological, there was no actual customer need for four - wheel drive ,
observes william chapin, a key american motors marketing executive during the rise of the suv .
except, that is, a psychological need. industry research, bradsher suggests, should give us pause. usually, says stephen ross, ford' s lead engineer in developing the explorer, the suv buyer is someone
who has a family but doesn' t want to broadcast a docile family message .
suv buyers, bradsher reports ,
are insecure and vain... frequently nervous about their marriages and uncomfortable about parenthood. they often lack confidence in their driving skills. above all, they are apt to be self - centered and self - absorbed .
that contrasts strikingly with minivan buyers, who tend to be
very giving .
bradsher joined the times in 1989. [ 1 ] before his asian assignment, he was the newspaper' s detroit bureau chief for nearly six years, a washington d. c. correspondent covering international trade and then the federal reserve for five years, and a reporter in new york covering the airline and telecommunications industries for two years. [ 2 ]
charles duhigg and keith bradsher wrote a terrific and informative article explaining “how the u. s. lost out on iphone work. ” i was especially struck by the argument that the united states simply does not have enough trained people with engineering backgrounds to succeed in modern manufacturing. to be an “engineer” in the u. s. typically implies you have accumulated at least four years of formal, college - level instruction in engineering. to do really well in the field you may in fact want to acquire a master’s degree early in your career. there can be little doubt that engineering education in the united states is highly regarded, not only by u. s. employers but by employers and students in the rest of the world. otherwise, it would be hard to account for the high international demand for admission to american engineering schools and the high demand for the graduates of those schools .
francois castaing, a leading suv engineer, joins other sources, bradsher says, in attributing
the rise of suvs to the federal government' s insistence on preserving strict gas mileage standards for cars while not raising gasoline taxes. the combination of cheap gasoline and stringent curbs on gasoline consumption by cars forced auto makers to transform the family vehicle of choice from a car into an suv .
bradsher labels his book a
biography
of the suv, but it also entertainingly captures the auto industry' s charming buccaneers. j. c. collins, a top ford marketing executive, is typically cynical about the outdoorsy image detroit uses to market suvs :
the only time those suvs are going to be off - road is when they miss the driveway at 3 a. m .
update: on air (although not in the printed article), bradsher said that saab assets had been sold to chinese car manufacturers and the rest of the company was being shut down. in fact, gm originally agreed to sell old saab tooling to beijing automotive, but after starting to shut down saab' s ongoing operations, gm reversed itself and sold the company to dutch car maker spyker earlier this year .
bradsher shared the sport utility vehicles (suvs) during 1997 and was a finalist for the pulitzer prize the same year. later, he published a book on suvs called high and mighty which won the new york public library helen bernstein award. [ 5 ] he won the society of publishers in asia (sopa) award for coverage of avian flu in the area. he won the asia society ’s osborn elliott award and the overseas press club ’s malcolm forbes award in 2010, for coverage of clean energy in china. [ 2 ] the asia society summarized the work on china he was being honored for :
through a dozen front - page articles, bradsher revealed how china, as one of the world’s largest polluters, has also begun to develop some of the world’s most advanced solutions to global warming and has pursued them aggressively .
[ 1 ]
the success of suvs ,
bradsher writes ,
comes partly from extremely cynical design and marketing decisions by automakers and partly from poorly drafted government regulations. the manufacturers' market researchers have decided that millions of baby boomers want an adventurous image and care almost nothing about putting others at risk to achieve it, so they have told auto engineers to design vehicles accordingly. the result has been unusually tall, menacing vehicles like the dodge durango, with its grille resembling a jungle cat' s teeth .
he is known for numerous articles starting in 1997 about the crash incompatibility of sport utility vehicles—the extra damage, injuries and deaths that high - riding suvs caused in vehicles that they hit compared to cars that hit other vehicles. the articles led to the development by automakers of a variety of measures, including hollow, impact - absorbing steel bars below and behind suv bumpers that ford motor nicknamed as
bradsher bars
; these measures greatly reduced the deadliness of suvs to the occupants of other cars by 2009. he is also known for writing extensively in 2009 and 2010 that china was passing the west in the production of wind turbines and solar panels, and for his coverage in november and december, 2013, of the aftermath of typhoon haiyan in the philippines .
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the $ 10, 000 cash prize will be presented at a june 1 luncheon program at asia society in new york .
the jury also awarded an honorable mention to chosun ilbo for its reporting on the plight of north korean refugees and human trafficking along the north korea - china border, specifically for a series of written stories and images that appeared on chosun ilbo’s english language edition online. the stories, written by lee hark - joon and park jong - in, were part of a broader multimedia effort that included segments broadcast on bbc and on pbs wide angle under the title “crossing heaven’s border. ”
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hong kong’s glittering skyline. the perception of the city as a vibrant crossroads that might offer a way forward for the mainland is fading fast .
when the british left 20 years ago, hong kong was seen as a rare blend of east and west that china might seek to emulate. now, increasingly, it’s a cautionary tale .
hong kong — when hong kong returned to chinese rule two decades ago, the city was seen as a model of what china might one day become: prosperous, modern, international, with the broad protections of the rule of law .
there was anxiety about how such a place could survive in authoritarian china. but even after beijing began encroaching on this former british colony’s freedoms, its reputation as one of the best - managed cities in asia endured .
the trains ran on time. crime and taxes were low. the skyline dazzled with ever taller buildings .
those are still true. yet as the 20th anniversary of the handover approaches on saturday, the perception of hong kong as something special — a vibrant crossroads of east and west that china may want to emulate — is fading fast .
never - ending disputes between the city’s beijing - backed leadership and the pro - democracy opposition have crippled the government’s ability to make difficult decisions and complete important construction projects .
caught between rival modes of rule — beijing’s dictates and the demands of local residents — the authorities have allowed problems to fester, including an affordable - housing crisis, a troubled education system and a delayed high - speed rail line .
many say the fight over hong kong’s political future has paralyzed it, and perhaps doomed it to decline. as a result, the city is increasingly held up not as a model of china’s future but as a cautionary tale — for beijing and its allies, of the perils of democracy, and for the opposition, of the perils of authoritarianism .
vendors selling secondhand clothing and goods in sham shui po, one of the city’s poorest areas .
a street in sai ying pun, a neighborhood on the western end of hong kong island .
“more and more, there is a sense of futility, ” said anson chan, the second - highest official in the hong kong government in the years before and after the handover to chinese rule. she blames beijing’s interference for the city’s woes. “we have this enormous giant at our doorstep, ” she said, “and the rest of the world does not seem to question whatever the enormous giant does. ”
others spread the blame more broadly. they point to the opposition’s reluctance to compromise and policies that weaken political parties, including multiseat legislative districts that allow radical candidates to win with a minority of votes .
“this kind of a political atmosphere will disrupt many of the initiatives that may come along, ” said anna wu, a member of the territory’s executive council, or cabinet .
a high - speed rail station planned for hong kong is a half - finished shell — years after every other major city in china has been linked by bullet trains .
hong kong ranks only after new york and london as a center of global finance, but it has no world - class museums. after 15 years of delays, construction of a cultural district intended to rival lincoln center has started, but funding from the legislature could be disrupted in the coming days .
widespread complaints about test - obsessed schools leaving students ill equipped to compete against those in mainland china have not led to education reform. nor has the government found a way to address simmering public anger over skyrocketing rents and housing prices .
hong kong was once known for the speed and efficiency with which it built huge planned communities with ample public housing every several years. but it has not managed to do so since britain returned it to chinese rule on july 1, 1997 .
hong kong once built planned communities with ample public housing, including choi hung estate, every few years .
hong kong is still a gem in many ways, a place that is hard not to love, and for its 7. 4 million residents, hard to leave .
narrow ribbons of oceanfront skyscrapers are backed by wooded hillsides protected as country parks. just 10 minutes uphill from the majestic victoria harbor and financial district are breathtaking views of the south china sea. steel and concrete fade into sylvan trails that wind past lakes and waterfalls, all of it not too far from the city’s cavernous and efficient airport, part of a renowned transport network of subways, buses, trams and ferries .
but the airport was built by the british before they left. so were the institutions that really distinguish the city: the independent courts, the widely respected civil service, the freewheeling press .
those were preserved under the “one country, two systems, ” formula that promised hong kong a high degree of autonomy when britain returned it to china. but they have been weakened as the communist party increasingly meddles in the city’s affairs, intimidating and even abducting people seen as challenging its interests .
a ferry from the financial district to lantau, the largest of hong kong’s outlying islands .
hong kong has emerged as the world’s third major financial center after new york and london .
on the street in mong kok, one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the world .
the umbrella movement demanding free elections that seized control of downtown streets for 11 weeks in late 2014 is just a distant memory. but sullen resentment of mainland china has spread as hong kong’s democratic evolution has stalled .
this spring, a new chief executive for the territory, carrie lam, was selected by a committee of about 1, 200 residents — mostly allies of beijing following its instructions .
her predecessors tiptoed around tough issues, wary of both offending the chinese leadership and provoking the public. at the same time, critics say, limited public accountability has allowed incompetence and even graft to spread among officials. the top two government officials from a previous administration have been tried on corruption charges .
beijing’s allies have a majority in the legislature because half the 70 seats are selected by interest groups mostly loyal to the mainland government. but the other half is elected, and lawmakers who favor greater democracy have won a majority of those seats. the result is gridlock .
there has also been a generational shift in the pro - democracy camp. voters have replaced older, more pragmatic politicians with younger candidates more stridently opposed to the communist authorities and willing to engage in all - out resistance. late last year, beijing intervened to prevent the seating of two pro - independence politicians who had altered their oath of office to protest chinese rule .
the legislature’s rules allow any three members to stall action for months with filibusters. in the last two years, various groups in the pro - democracy camp have repeatedly used that tool as leverage, causing a backlog of legislation that has delayed even projects that are not contentious, like a cleanup plan for the harbor .
an annual candlelight vigil honoring those who were killed in the tiananmen square crackdown of 1989 .
both sides agree that the city will become ungovernable without some kind of political change. but they cannot agree on what to do .
the democrats want a clear road map to universal suffrage — which beijing promised in 2007 “may be implemented” in 2017 — starting with direct elections for the chief executive. only when the government is accountable to the public will it have a mandate to tackle the challenges facing the city, they say .
but supporters of beijing say the problem is too much democracy, not too little .
shiu sin - por, the departing head of the local government’s agenda - setting central policy unit, said pro - beijing lawmakers must break with tradition and get tough on filibusters .
he also wants to eliminate civil service protections for many senior officials and put them on renewable, short - term contracts — which would make them more accountable to beijing .
“you have a lot of deadbeats and layabouts who drag it out until they retire, ” he said. “would elections change this? no. ”
mr. shiu, a longtime power broker with close ties to the beijing government, warned that if hong kong remained politically paralyzed, it could slip from the ranks of the world’s great cities and end up like monaco, a tax haven for the wealthy with few industries beyond financial services and retail .
in an interview, mrs. lam, who will be sworn in on saturday, acknowledged “a certain degree of truth” in the argument that the lack of a political overhaul was making it more difficult to address issues like housing, education and infrastructure .
but she added: “if we were to have universal suffrage tomorrow, would all these problems disappear? i don’t think so. ”
waiting to buy apartments. the city has some of the highest housing costs in the world .
an open - air bar at an upscale mall that faces the waterfront of victoria harbor .
students visiting the hong kong monetary authority, which acts as the central bank .
in many ways, hong kong as a city has fared better than its people. since the handover, more than one million mainland chinese have moved here, contributing their energy and talents to the territory’s economic development. but the newcomers’ success has sometimes come at the expense of those with deeper roots .
big international companies and banks now aggressively recruit mainland chinese instead of local residents, who speak cantonese instead of the mandarin used on the mainland and who often lack the connections to win deals and thrive there .
the language issue is a challenge for hong kong’s education system, which tries to teach three of them — english, as well as mandarin and cantonese. this produces many graduates with weaker english and mandarin than those from the mainland’s top schools .
but efforts to address the problem get caught in the city’s fractious politics, with suspicions that beijing wants to undermine local identity or limit the west’s influence .
at the same time, the government has resisted proposals to ease the culture of high - pressure testing, a source of much public dissatisfaction. instead, it tried to introduce “patriotic” material into the curriculum, appeasing beijing while angering parents and students .
the influx of mainland chinese has also contributed to a historic run - up in housing prices, making hong kong one of the world’s most expensive places to live. a single parking space recently sold for $ 664, 000 .
soaring prices and rents have squeezed middle - class families and younger residents in particular, fueling resentment against the mainland chinese who have poured money into the market. government measures to limit speculation have not deterred those investors, many of whom are looking for a safe way to get their money out of the mainland .
the underlying problem is limited supply. land disputes have nearly halted plans to build big residential areas in the rural sections of northern hong kong .
under a policy dating from the colonial era, families in traditional villages there are awarded long - term grants of land, producing suburban sprawl and making it difficult to put together a large parcel for development. the government could force families to sell but is worried about setting off protests, in part because the leaders of those communities have generally supported beijing .
rural farmland in lo wu, near the border between hong kong and mainland china .
plans to build elsewhere have also stalled. efforts to rezone the fringes of country parks for apartment buildings have been blocked by environmentalists, while the government has been leery of the cost of controversial proposals by developers to subsidize land reclamation and build thousands of acres of artificial islands .
“there’s land in hong kong, but what we lack is developable land, ” said anthony cheung, the transport and housing secretary, noting that everyone wanted more housing but no one wanted it built next door. “we still need to seek local community support. ”
gaining such support is difficult, though, given deep distrust of the government. lawsuits by neighborhoods and environmental groups have delayed a range of infrastructure projects that require much less land than housing developments .
wong tat ming, 63, in his “coffin apartment, ” which measures just four by six feet .
the planned high - speed rail line, for example, is being built underground the entire 16 miles to the border partly because of the political challenge of obtaining land. that has driven up the project’s cost many times over. even the tunneling effort required the removal of a village of scarcely 100 people, though, and democracy activists joined them in protests that slowed the initiative .
the proposed deployment of chinese immigration officers at the downtown rail station under construction is also contentious. critics are objecting to an expanded mainland security presence in the heart of the city. they point to several recent cases in which chinese officers appeared to abduct people — booksellers peddling salacious tales about mainland officials, or a tycoon with rare insight into the finances of the communist party elite — and whisk them to the mainland without legal authority .
“it will be used as an excuse to create a serious loophole to allow mainland officers to implement mainland laws in hong kong’s territory, ” said eddie chu, a pro - democracy member of the legislature .
hong kong’s free press faces the corrosive effects of intervention from the authoritarian chinese mainland .
a large chinese flag on display on an electronic billboard in the tsim sha tsui area .
as the political wrangling in hong kong is drawn out, some people are leaving. one popular destination is taiwan, a flourishing chinese democracy with more affordable real estate and news outlets that have not been cowed by beijing, as many of those in hong kong have .
pat yeung, 43, an entrepreneur, said she moved to taiwan this summer after a friend emigrated to get her children out of the high - pressure schools, and after she met another couple who relocated in search of cheaper housing .
in hong kong, with its relentless business competition and darkening political climate, ms. yeung said, “the pressure is too, too much. ”
three years ago, beijing presented hong kong with a pro posal to allow residents to elect the chief executive, but only from a slate of candidates approved by a nomination committee under its control. the pro - democracy forces rejected the offer, holding out for free elections without such a limit, and beijing’s refusal to budge prompted the umbrella movement protests .
it was a pivotal moment for hong kong, with all sides letting a chance at compromise slip by and digging in for what has been a prolonged stalemate .
the pro - democracy camp’s biggest mistake may have been believing that president xi jinping, who at the time had been in office for almost two years, intended to guide china toward a more pluralistic future .
martin lee, the founding chairman of the democratic party, said that he harbored such hopes because he had met mr. xi’s father, a senior communist leader considered more open - minded than most of mao’s generals .
others noted mr. xi’s record as a leader in the eastern provinces of fujian and zhejiang, where he adopted a moderate tone while trying to attract hong kong investors, said joseph cheng, another longtime democracy advocate .
the double - decker trams, built by the british, have trundled across hong kong island since 1904 .
the neon signs that have lit the city for decades are slowly being replaced by led lighting .
zhang dejiang, a member of the powerful politburo standing committee, took the lead on policy toward hong kong, and some wondered at the time if his hard - line stance reflected mr. xi’s views .
but there is little doubt now that mr. xi calls the shots. after nearly five years in power, he has proved to be a committed authoritarian who considers political liberalization a threat .
there seems little hope that beijing will make hong kong an offer better than the one it put forward three years ago. jasper tsang, the recently retired president of the legislature and a longtime ally of beijing, said the attitudes of the chinese leadership toward the city had hardened .
“people are telling me there won’t be a second chance, ” he said .
last month, mr. zhang visited macau, the former portuguese colony that is now a chinese gambling hub, and praised it in terms that suggested he saw it as a model for hong kong .
people here were stunned because macau has a reputation for obsequious obedience to beijing as well as chronic corruption, organized crime and limited tolerance for labor unions and other independent organizations .
the worry now is that mr. xi may share that vision of hong kong’s future. “if the idea came from him, ” mr. lee said, “we are finished. ”
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⁩ on how the push for automation and higher tech will make it very hard for the u. s. to stop china’s rise to global tech prominence .
one belt one road initiative faces some belt - tightening as debt builds up, financing constraints rise .
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the value of the deals that chinese companies are striking under the country’s big global plan — called the belt and road initiative — is smaller than a year ago. our
even with its financial firepower, china has its limits. its economy is showing signs of slowing, and it’s in the middle of a trade war with the united states .
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. @ keithbradsher the nyt' s auto reporter estimated it at 2k like 12 years ago, when suv sales were a fraction of what they are now .
after many years of shifting its auto parts supply chain from the u. s. to china, and starting to shift vehicle production, gm warns that it could be hammered by trump trade tariffs, says it would pass on costs to consumers. ⁦
as china faces debt troubles at home, its financial regulators are reassessing heavy lending to belt and road countries by chinese banks and other financial institutions .
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global warming in south asia: 800 million at risk. central india could become even hotter, endangering many .
months of struggling with economic problems at home and bickering with president trump over trade are starting to take their toll on china’s financial health. our
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— the duties would mainly affect general motors, which exports cadillac s. u. v. ’s and cars to china; chrysler, which exports jeeps; the bmw group of germany, which exports bmw s. u. v. ’s from south carolina; and daimler of germany, which exports mercedes s. u. v. ’s from a factory in alabama. because of the high chinese tariffs and taxes already in place, the vehicles are sold only in the thousands or even hundreds in china, and only to the most affluent .
— shanghai: china has spent nearly five years steering an ever - growing stream of hundreds of billions of dollars to a bold plan to gain greater global influence by funding big projects across asia, eastern europe and africa. now, beijing is starting to tap the brakes. the value of the deals that chinese companies are striking under the country' s big global plan — called the belt and road initiative — is smaller than a year ago, according to new data .
— china has spent nearly five years steering an ever - growing stream of hundreds of billions of dollars to a bold plan to gain greater global influence by funding big projects across asia, eastern europe and africa. now, beijing is starting to tap the brakes. the value of the deals that chinese companies are striking under the country’s big global plan — called the belt and road initiative — is smaller than a year ago, according to new data .
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president xi jinping of china is sending liu he, his top economic policymaker and a recent addition to the politburo, to washington on tuesday .
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china’s 2017 national people’s congress concludes this week. some 3, 000 lawmakers convened in beijing to discuss china’s economic outlook, president trump, and more .
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keith bradsher is a business and economics reporter and the shanghai bureau chief of the new york times . he was previously the chief hong kong correspondent since 2002 , reporting on greater china , southeast asia and south asia on topics including economic trends , manufacturing , energy , health issues and the environment . he has won several awards for his reporting and was part of a team of new york times reporters who won the 2013 pulitzer prize for explanatory reporting for a series of 10 articles about the business practices of apple and other technology companies . 
keith bradsher is a business and economics reporter and the shanghai bureau chief of the new york times. he was previously the chief hong kong correspondent since 2002, reporting on greater china, southeast asia and south asia on topics including economic trends, manufacturing, energy, health issues and the environment. he has won several awards for his reporting and was part of a team of new york times reporters who won the 2013 pulitzer prize for explanatory reporting for a series of 10 articles about the business practices of apple and other technology companies.
keith bradsher is a business and economics reporter and the shanghai bureau chief of the new york times. he was previously the chief hong kong correspondent since 2002, reporting on greater china, southeast asia and south asia on topics including economic trends, manufacturing, energy, health issues and the environment. he has won several awards for his reporting and was part of a team of new york times reporters who won the 2013 pulitzer prize for explanatory reporting for a series of 10 articles about the business practices of apple and other technology companies.