Sino-European relations December 7, 2007

In last week’s edition, The Economist reported on the 10th EU-China summit. The main change in Sino-European relations is that the EU is increasingly worried about the growing trade deficit with China. The EU commission’s president, José Manuel Barroso chose unusually strong words when criticising the Chinese trade policy. Mr Barroso wants to make “things [...]

A de-brief. But not the end of the Chinese story. October 25, 2007

Tomorrow, about 20 students of the DfES China Summer School 2007 will be attending a de-briefing session at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in London. Permanent Secretary Ian Watmore, who used to be head of UK e-Government, will be present plus a number of journalists. Although it is a de-briefing, this does not [...]

The smallest unit of the economy: the human August 20, 2007

This is the story of a human, of his worries and aspirations, of his fears and dreams. This article is inspired by a section in the business magazine Brand Eins, in which, next to the ‘soft’ interview, ‘hard’ raw economic data are given, such as what the person makes and some indices of what basic [...]

Building bridges August 16, 2007

On Sunday, July 22 2007, the open ceremony of the DfES China Summer School Programme took place. Guests included distinguished individuals such as Professor Xu Jialu, the Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, the British ambassador to China and the President of Beijing Normal University, our host in [...]