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Wanting Us to Be Like China

China’s attempt at a high-speed rail network is fraught with corrupt officials, impossible costs, and deadly safety failures. But U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wishes America would follow it as a model. LaHood told The Cable last week: The Chinese are more...

Weak June Jobs Report

Weak June manufacturing numbers released Monday intensified concern about the fragility of the economic recovery and turned election-watchers’ attention toward unemployment numbers due out at the end of this week. The reports, just four months before voters cast their...

Administration Says China Hindering Green Technology

The White House says China’s restric­tions cre­ate an unfair advan­tage for Chi­nese pro­duc­ers, which could harm domes­tic indus­trial pro­duc­tion of green tech­nol­ogy and force some fac­to­ries to move over­seas.  China mines 97 per­cent of the world’s sup­ply of...