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10.28.13U.S. Factories Hit by Shutdown, China Production Rises
Reuters
Factories in China boosted production this month, but U.S. manufacturing output fell for the first time in four years while the euro zone economy lost momentum, surveys on Thursday showed.
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10.21.13Seeing Its Own Money at Risk, China Rails at U.S.
New York Times
China has become shrill in its criticism of the fiscal train wreck in the United States, arguing that the answer to a potential government default is to begin creating a “de-Americanized world.”
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10.21.13What China Thinks of the Shutdown
Diplomat
The notion of a government shutdown is strange for the average Chinese person because its consequences in the People’s Republic would go far beyond closed federal agencies and parks, but it has also helped the Chinese better understand the U.S...
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10.17.13Journalist’s Call for ‘de-Americanized World’ Provokes Alarm in U.S., Fart Jokes in China
As fears mounted this week about a possible (and now, it seems, averted) U.S. government default, the U.S. press stumbled upon an October 13 editorial in Xinhua, China’s largest news agency, calling for a “de-Americanized...
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10.15.13‘Where Are the Riots?’: China Watches the Shutdown
New Yorker
In China’s social media - what amounts to China’s largest and most liberal classroom - microbloggers are taking the opportunity to teach one another the difference between federal and local authority in America and the protections, and perils, of...
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10.02.13
China’s Surprising Reaction to the U.S. Government Shutdown
As the U.S. federal government hurtles into shutdown mode, many in the United States have responded with anger or shame. At Foreign Policy, for instance, Gordon Adams compares the congressional bickering that gave rise to the shutdown to Shakespeare...