December 5 2008
December 2008
Travel Blog | Travel Journals, Diaries and Photos: The collapse of world markets has been a wake up call for the Chinese leadership one they thought they would never have to hear. The precrisis narrative had been that with their ldquosocialism with Chinese characteristicsrdquo the boom and bust cycles characteristic of capitalism had been tamed once and for all. The experience here during the Asian economic crisis of 1997 only reinforced th
