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This year's election in Taiwan on Jan 14, in which current Kuomintang chairman, Ma Ying-jeou defeated Tsai Ing-wen, the candidate of Democratic Progressive Party, came during a critical period of political and economic changes for the Asia-Pacific region.
As the chair of APEC this year, Russia vows to foster cooperation in trade liberalization, food security, logistics, energy and innovation.
The priority of the No 1 Document of the Chinese central government has changed from water conservancy investment in 2011 to agricultural science and technology in 2012.
China's long-held, low-cost manufacturing advantages are dwindling and it must make greater inputs into innovation.
Along with most of the rest of the country, and indeed the world, whose negative attention it unfortunately attracted, I was nauseated by the story of 2-year-old Yue Yue, who was ignored by 18 passers-by when she was run over twice in Foshan, Guangdong province.
If I had been asked more than 30 years ago, which I would prefer, a planned economy or a laissez-faire free market, I would have chosen the latter as the best pick-me-up for the country's abject economic condition at that time.
Thursday is the annual Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.
It is hardly coincidental that two talks in New York on Monday both focused on China's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).
The Shenzhen civil servant who beat his parents committed what was considered a serious crime in ancient times.
On Wednesday evening, I listened to talks by Chinese entrepreneurs on philanthropy and social responsibility at Columbia University, New York.
