America’s Biggest Competitor Really Isn’t China
on October 1, 2015
If you ask Americans who their country's biggest competitor is, many people will tell you China.
If you ask Americans who their country's biggest competitor is, many people will tell you China.
The fuerdai, China’s second-generation rich kids, are the most loathed group in the country.
This week, Chinese president Xi Jinping and Pope Francis missed each other on their back-to-back visits to the United States.
"You American people worry too much about the China economy," Ma said at the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting.
Internet censorship in China has inspired the invention of a menagerie of online creatures: the river crab, the elephant of truth, the monkey-snake. Each beast’s name plays on a word or phrase that has at some point angered Chinese Internet users, often because it has originated in a piece of state propaganda. The river crab, or héxiè, is the embodiment of the doctrine of “harmony” (héxié), promulgated by former president Hu Jintao.

The tremors in China’s faltering economy are being felt across Africa. Now that China has replaced Europe and the United States as most African countries’ largest trading partner, there is understandable concern that slowing demand in the P.R.C. will be felt in Africa’s commodity export dominated economies.
