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Therese Shaheen writes at National Review Online about fundamental contradictions baked into the brand of communism employed in the People’s Republic of China. The forced encampment by the Chinese Communist…
David Goldman writes for National Review Online about China’s threatening economic plans. China has a plan to assimilate most of the world’s population into a virtual empire dominated by its…
The Center for American Entrepreneurship recently released an interactive online report called, “The Rise of the Startup City.” Aaron Renn provides a summary at Urbanophile.com: The main message of the report…
Randall Forsyth of Barron’s explores the recent decision to award Beijing the 2022 Winter Olympics. No cold, no snow? No problem! That in essence was what Chinese officials must have…
Thomas Donlan devotes his latest editorial commentary in Barron’s to the contrast between the history of growth in the United States and China. In the time before internal combustion engines,…
The Charlotte Observer had an article out over the weekend titled “Domestic growth is strong, but what does the international future hold for Charlotte Douglas?” The answer is a lot…
View in your browser. Welcome Earlier this week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a new report, "PISA 2012 Results: Creative Problem Solving: Students’ Skills in Tackling…
The following is a list of education systems that scored higher than the United States on the 2012 International Student Assessment (PISA) reading test: Shanghai-China 570 Hong Kong-China 545 Singapore…
The following is a list of education systems that scored higher than the United States on the 2012 International Student Assessment (PISA) science test: Shanghai-China 580 Hong Kong-China 555 Singapore…
The following is a list of education systems that scored higher than the United States on the 2012 International Student Assessment (PISA) math test: Shanghai-China 613 Singapore 573 Hong Kong-China…
The UPoR had an article on that this topic last week. It includes an extremely odd quote: Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst at Hudson Crossing, said Charlotte will lose out…
Those who read Mark Bauerlein’s book with that title might appreciate historian Niall Ferguson’s latest Newsweek column, in which he laments the fact that teens tend to read only tweets…