Wall Street in Crisis/Asian American Voters Keeping Virginia Red?
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen Segment 1: Wall Street in Crisis Wall Street is in crisis. It drove Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy and forced American International Group into the hands of the U.S. government. Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America. Goldman and Morgan Stanley are to become commercial banks. China has resisted [...]
Impact of Asian American Voters/On Patrol in the Virtual World
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen Segment 1: Impact of the Asian American Vote The presidential campaign is in full swing. Ethnic minorities represent an increasingly powerful voting bloc that will help decide which presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain, wins the 2008 general election. Feb. 5 Super Tuesday exit polls showed [...]
Congressman in China/Global Online Freedom Act
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen Segment 1: Congressmen Barred from Meeting with Chinese Dissidents The Chinese security apparatus has tightened controls considerably, ahead of the Beijing Olympics. Chinese dissidents with grievances have been rounded up, or kept from entering Beijing by policed security cordons that ring the city. Congressmen Frank Wolf and Chris Smith, [...]
Dalai Lama and Beijing’s 7th Round of Talks and China’s Stock Market Melt-down
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen Segment 1: Seventh Round of Talks between Dalai Lama and Beijing Starting in March 2008, Buddhist monks and others took to the streets in Tibetan areas in repeated protest against their treatment by Chinese authorities. Large numbers of paramilitary police were mobilized to contain the unrest, and large scale [...]
China’s Stock Market Tumbles and Post-Election Taiwan
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen Segment 1: China’s Stock Market Makes History If you think you’ve got it bad because of the recent market decline in the U.S., you should take a look at Chinese stock investors. By the end of the first quarter, China’s main market, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, had tumbled about [...]
Beijing Olympics: China’s Coming-out Party in Danger?
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen The Beijing Olympics represent a kind of coming-out party for China, a chance for the rising Asian power to showcase its economic and political development. There is much for the world to admire and for the Chinese people to be proud of. But things are not turning out in [...]
China’s Economic Stimulus Plan/U.S.-China Policy
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen Segment 1: China’s Economic Stimulus Plan Beijing has unveiled an economic stimulus program totaling $586 billion. It aims to bolster domestic demand and help avert global recession. The size of the stimulus plan was clearly designed to revive the fading confidence of Chinese businesses and consumers and impress foreign [...]
China’s Tainted Milk Products/U.S.-India Nuclear Pact
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen Segment 1: China’s Tainted Milk Products Fifty-four thousand infants were sick in China, six thousand hospitalized, four died. The tainted milk scandal has sparked global concern about Chinese food products, with more than 30 countries restricting Chinese dairy products, and in some cases, all imports of Chinese made food. [...]
Wall Street in Crisis/Asian American Voters Keeping Virginia Red?
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen Segment 1: Wall Street in Crisis Wall Street is in crisis. It drove Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy and forced American International Group into the hands of the U.S. government. Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America. Goldman and Morgan Stanley are to become commercial banks. China has resisted [...]
Wall Street in Crisis/Asian American Voters Keeping Virginia Red?
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen Segment 1: Wall Street in Crisis Wall Street is in crisis. It drove Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy and forced American International Group into the hands of the U.S. government. Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America. Goldman and Morgan Stanley are to become commercial banks. China has resisted [...]
