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Watch List: Jan. 30, 2017

Analysis

The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item on our Watch List becomes critical, we will email you a full analysis explaining its significance. Each Saturday, we will follow up our daily Watch List […]

Watch List Findings: Jan. 28, 2017

Analysis
What follows are the preliminary findings for issues identified in the daily Watch Lists this week. We are only sending findings that we regard as significant or potentially significant...

China’s Gross Regional Product

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Jan. 27, 2017 The average annual per capita disposal income by household in China in 2014 was about 20,000 yuan or approximately $3,000, which equates to $8.22 a day. On the surface, that seems to be a somewhat promising figure. It wouldn’t make any of these households rich or even lower-middle class by American standards, but it would be quite a leap forward from where they started. In 1981, the year the World Bank began tracking poverty in China, 88.3 percent of China’s population lived on less than $1.90 a day.

The Utility of Torture

Analysis

Jan. 27, 2017 In many cases, there are better ways to get intelligence.

China Bids for the Philippines

Analysis

Jan. 26, 2016 There is a strategy behind Beijing’s recent investments in the Philippines.

Watch List: Jan. 26, 2017

Analysis
The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item...
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