With a weak US dollar, strong yuan and China’s own real estate market cooling after years of explosive growth, Detroit is an attractive—but high-risk—option for Chinese property developers.
With Xi Jinping currently finishing up a trip to South America following a meeting of BRICS leaders in Brazil, China Real Time hit the streets of Beijing to find out what residents think about China’s place in the world.
Just hours after The New York Times posted an article about bogus Twitter accounts dedicated to spreading pro-China propaganda—and a Tibetan advocacy group demanded that the company take action—Twitter appears to have hit the kill switch on a score of the suspect accounts.
More Chinese Internet companies should compete internationally, as they now have the ability and can make the world’s cyber environment more balanced and just.
Alan R. (Randy) Kluver is Executive Director of Global Partnerships and Projects (GPP), and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication. As Executive Director of GPP, Kluver reports to the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and coordinates global institutional partnerships and university-wide internationalization initiatives. To date, Kluver has been Principal Investigator or co-PI on over $4 million for international research and educational grants and contracts. He is the PI for the Project GO ROTC, a Department of Defense project that has provided over $1.5 million dollars in scholarships for critical language study and study abroad programs for Texas A&M students. In 2007, Kluver led the campus initiative to establish the Confucius Institute at Texas A&M, and served as the Director of the CI until 2012. Previously, he was the Director of the Institute for Pacific Asia, which was later absorbed into the Global Program Support office.
Currently, he is co-PI (with Stephen Balfour) of the MMS/CAMMI Project, a real time international broadcast transcription and translation system, and he is actively engaged with university faculty to develop research protocols and educational applications for this pioneering technology, especially through the Global Networked Media Archive, an initiative to create online, searchable databases of online media. His book Civic Discourse, Civil Society, and Chinese Communities (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999), co-authored with John H. Powers, won the Outstanding Book Award from the International and Intercultural Division of the National Communication Association in 2000. His essay "The Logic of New Media in International Relations" received the 2003 Walter Benjamin Award from the Media Ecology Association as the outstanding research article in media ecology.
Avery Goldstein is the David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations in the Political Science Department, Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and Associate Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on international relations, security studies, and Chinese politics. He is the author of Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security (Stanford University Press, 2005), Deterrence and Security in the 21st Century: China, Britain, France, and the Enduring Legacy of the Nuclear Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2000), and From Bandwagon to Balance of Power Politics: Structural Constraints and Politics in China, 1949-1978 (Stanford University Press, 1991). Among his other publications are articles in the journals International Security, International Organization, Journal of Strategic Studies, Security Studies, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, Comparative Politics, Orbis, and Polity, as well as chapters in a variety of edited volumes. Goldstein is also a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.
He may be widely reviled in his home country, but oh, what a resume: The son of an author and screenwriter; a graduate of the prestigious China Foreign Affairs University; a Yale World Fellow; and state-run China Central Television (CCTV)’s best-known bilingual business anchorman.
"Smart money" checking the exit is a bad omen for any market, especially one considered frothy after a five-year record-breaking bull run, but analysts say there is no reason for alarm yet.
