When I first came to Shanghai last year the freeze of winter was just settling in. I remember I was pressing on through the wind in the French Concession one day when I came across a Disney English school. Disney had apparently set up shop in '08 to break into China's market through education; yet, …
Category: US-China Relations
The capricious tides of cross-Pacific relations
China’s Donating Dilemma
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet stirred up a media storm when they, along with several other notable US billionaires, pledged to donate at least half of their fortunes to charity. In September, the duo will come and ask China’s wealthy to do the same, but can the billionaires bank on Chinese benevolence? Considering the pace …
A Tale of Two Cities
Hawkers coax passerby to fruit wagons set up over dusty asphalt. Plumes of smoke are ejected over their heads from factories in monotonous wisps. Welders working in the womb of a skyscraper’s foundation toil heedlessly under the ashy blanket that shrouds the sky. Another day in the auspicious showpiece metropolis of Shanghai? No, not this time. …
Justin Calderón 