China stories: charity, democracy, environment, growth, housing, reform, R&D, trade and the yuan

There have been plenty of items on China over the last few days - far too many to post about individually:

* The Economist asks Are you being served? China's services sector is escaping from the shadow of manufacturing, but not as fast as it could

* Bloomberg columnist William Pesek Jr. draws heavily upon Brad Setser's analysis for his piece, China's Conundrum Tops Greenspan's Riddle

* Charity: new cultural revolution - Guardian correspondent Jonathan Watts outlines how authorities are calling on the burgeoning middle class to help out the country's poor

* Robert Reich argues in a Daily Prospect piece, The China Path, that China demonstrates that capitalism no longer needs democracy

* Morgan Stanley's Stephen Jen on The Year of the CNY. Jen expects "a much more interesting year" for the yuan, with Beijing to allow more genuine currency flexibility

* Mark Thoma's Economist's Views blog reports an LA Times story: Shanghai's Bubble Pops

* Brad DeLong writes about China and economic growth

* Also via Mark, a long but engrossing piece from Harper's Magazine: Scenes from China's Industrial Revolution

* Via Mark at the Environmental Economics blog, the Financial Times offers A prescription to advance China’s green ambitions

* Morgan Stanley's Andy Xie on China: The Right Response to Intellectual Property Underdevelopment

* Brad Setser is impressed by China’s December trade numbers and overall export performance

* EastSouthWestNorth blog translates excerpts of a Tsinghua University speech by economist Long Xianping (郎咸平) on the reform experiments in China; revealing stuff (particularly the applauses)

* The Peking Duck reports that up to 70 percent of China's rivers and lakes are seriously polluted

* Simon World posts a provocative StratFor piece, Dissecting the Chinese miracle, which poses the economic double bind facing the Chinese government

Comments

[Daedalus]

There is some interesting info on China and institutional reform over at the Center for International Private Enterprise blog: www.cipe.org/blog The site is pretty interesting.

[Daedalus]

sorry- a link: http://www.cipe.org/blog