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Edmund L. Andrew, As Americans Stop Buying, Trade Deficit Declines. New York Times, Oct. 10, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/business/economy/10trade.html?scp=1&sq=china%20deficit%20trade%20&st=cse
(US Commerce Department yesterday released trade data for August)
Quote:
"For the first eight months of the year, the United States trade deficit with China is down by about 14 percent or $20 billion, compared with one year ago. The nation’s trade deficit with Japan has shrunk by almost 20 percent, and its deficits with Mexico, Canada and the European Union are down more than 40 percent.
"China’s trade surplus with the rest of the world has plummeted to less than 6 percent of its gross domestic product, from 11 percent.
--------------------Separately
(1) Christina Talcott, At Angel Island, the Walls Do Talk. Washington Post, Oct. 11, 2009 (tomorrow's paper available now)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100902438.html
("Chinese immigrants waiting [here] for permission to enter the United States between 1910 and 1940 [t]hanks to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 * * * [together with other immigrants] about 350,000 of them over 30 years")
Note: "Angel Island is an island in San Francisco Bay." Wikipedia.
(2) Del Quentin Wilber, Family Members Charged With Selling Counterfeit Computer Chips. Washington Post, Oct. 9, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100902021.html?sub=AR
(three Californians, with Turk-sounding names, imported counterfeit chips from China and sold them to US government)
(3) Lavanya Ramanathan, Film Fests: You Want It, They've Got It. Washington Post, Oct. 9, 2009.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/08/AR2009100801239.html
Quote:
"DC Labor Filmfest (Tuesday-Oct. 19)
"Highlights: "Manufactured Landscapes" (Tuesday), "Office Space" (Oct. 17) and "Slap Shot" (Oct. 16 and 17)
"This festival [is] curated by the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO * * * Movies include * * * "Manufactured Landscapes," Jennifer Baichwal's 2006 documentary following photographer Edward Burtynsky as he chronicles industrialization in China. The latter film is the festival's opener * * * Screenings are at the AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring (Metro: Silver Spring). Tickets are $12; AFI members, $9. 301-495-6720. http://www.dclabor.org.
(4) Philip Bowring, Taiwan and China. New York Times, Oct. 7, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/opinion/07iht-edbowring.html?scp=1&sq=taiwan%20president%20bowring&st=cse
My comment: I saw this op-ed on Oct. 6 at www.nytimes.com, but it was not in the print (at in New York Times, though possibly in its Pairs-based subsidiary International Herald Tribune) in Oct. 7.
(5) 港人：高锟个性魅力愈久愈醇. VOA Chinese, Oct. 9, 2009.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/science-technology/nthusiasm-for-Kao-Kuen-20091009-63844072.html
("明报对现在居住在美国旧金山的高锟进行了采访，发现患上老人痴呆症的高锟已经忘记了自己毕生研究、造福世人的光纤科技。高锟的夫人黄美芸说，高锟'已经不是以前的那个人了。'”)
My comment: Dr Charles Kuen Kao, born in 1933, is 76. There is no need to read the rest of the report.
(6) Sara Kugler, NYC Chinatown could get first Chinese rep on council. Associated Press, Oct. 4, 2009.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gD_3bWqWAsWf85Vbg7RAy9nNHAMAD9B4EST80
Quote:
"And John Liu last week won the Democratic primary runoff for comptroller, the city's chief financial officer and one of its top three elected positions. Liu, whose family emigrated from Taiwan when he was a child, is on his way to becoming the first Asian-American to hold citywide office in New York City.
"Liu, a Queens councilman, beat fellow Councilman David Yassky in the runoff and is expected to win the Nov. 3 general election against lesser-known Republican Joe Mendola.
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