Atlas International Thursday- April 16th
Please join us next week, April 16th, for our monthly International Thursday meeting from 10-11:30am. This month’s speakers will be: USA- Fred Smith- President and Founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute- “NGO bias in the International Economy.” CHINA- Feng Xingyuan- Cathay Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) – current programs and initiatives SERBIA- Aleksandar Novakovic- Katalaksija [...]
Saving is Patriotic; Consumption Isn’t – A Lesson in Chinese
For those who regularly read Western reporting on China, one of the most tiresome “discoveries” is that the Chinese word for “crisis” is a composite of two characters (危机) which separately mean “danger” and “opportunity.” This, foreign journalists remind us all too frequently, is supposed to give us a window into Chinese pragmatism: Westerners only [...]
Transition Institute – New Independent Think Tank in Beijing
Atlas is pleased to learn about a new free market think tank in China, the Transition Institute. The mission of this institute is “To strive to be the best independent think tank in China, to help China´s transformation into a country characterized by liberal democracy, free markets and civil society. Founded in March 2007, with [...]
Trade within the EU and China
ECIPE, a young institute which studies trade policies within the EU, has recently done a good deal of work related to free trade agreements with China. A meeting was scheduled to take place in France this week, but was canceled due to diplomatic differences. Here is a new framework for EU-China Relations, a joint ECIPE-GEM [...]
Global Initiative Conference: China’s Path to Harmonious Development
Thirty Years of Reform: China’s Path ot Harmonious Development Beijing, China- November 17- 18, 2008 This event was sponsored by Tiandaocn.org View the Program after the jump:
CARE HK
Many countries look to Hong Kong a role model for a free economy. Unfortunately, it looks as though Hong Kong is trying to follow the path of China’s planned economy by introducing a comprehensive antitrust law, which will encourage more government corruption and less transparency. The Lion Rock Institute is working hard, to explain to [...]
The G8 Meets the Dragon in Africa
After living in South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi observed: The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of [the west].Today, emerging economic realities between the re-emerging powers (India and China) and Africa seem to be paving‚ the way for this. 2008 Young [...]
