China favors jobs at home over freer trade

with the economic downturn in full effect, China is scrambling back toward the riverbank. The government has reversed itself on tax rebates and other export-friendly policies, restoring perks it had only recently scrapped. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Jan 1, 2009 - 12:06 PM PST
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - Jan 1, 2009 - 12:06 PM PST

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Fred Gatlin
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by Fred Gatlin - Jan. 2, 2009

This is a well written and interesting story that would be better with more named sources and support for the theories.

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Robin 'Roblimo' Miller
4.4
by Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Jan. 2, 2009

I saw this as more of an analysis piece than pure journalism. While it was factual, the facts tended to support the overall thesis rather than stand on their own.

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Derek Hawkins
3.5
by Derek Hawkins - Jan. 1, 2009
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Kenneth Sibbett
3.8
by Kenneth Sibbett - Jan. 1, 2009

While the Chinese have major problems at home, the author fail's to explain what that does for the American economy.

Whenever I read about the Chinese economy, it seems like if they fall everyone falls. That's not necessarily true. The American's need tariff's raised on the Chinese if they continue to sell their goods at low or even below prices that anyone who pays decent pay to it's worker's can afford.

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