- This is a great headline: Emu on the loose in Shanxi forest, now hunted by drones.
- The phantom province in last year's GDP figures has disappeared as GDP statistics at the provincial and national level converge.
- Andrew Batson of Gavekal Dragonomics argues that local governments will play an important role in the marketisation of SOEs because their huge off-balance-sheet debts incentivise them to raise cash from asset sales.
- One of China's leading authors, Bi Yufei, has urged Hong Kong to protect its identity.
- Russian companies turn east as Western funds dry up due to sanctions.
- On the back of Sam Roggeveen's post on Bob Carr's struggle with how Australia should negotiate the US-China question, Fergus Ryan of the China Spectator asks just how influential the China lobby is in Australia.
- China's provinces fail to meet downgraded 2014 growth goals.
- In response to Walter Russell Mead's piece on the return of geopolitics, John Ikenberry contends that China and Russia are not full scale revisionist powers but part time spoilers at best.
- Road trips to areas outside the Rason Economic Zone in North Korea will be offered to Chinese citizens (only) for the first time. Not a Chinese citizen? That's OK, there's always the Pyongyang marathon.
China links: Revisionism, emu on the loose, China Lobby, Pyongyang marathon and more
Published 7 May 2014
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