The Chinese are still Chinese after they joined the WTO. The thing that we have to accept is that even if there is economic convergence with globalization, there has not been so much convergence of values or systems, political systems, as we've seen. ![]() ![]() Isn't it really, though, a clash of values? They weren't willing to accept Chinese censorship. INSKEEP: You write that Google chose not to comply with regulatory restrictions, and so their business has been severely restricted in China. But if we actually look at the data in China, the foreign companies actually get more subsidies than domestic companies. And I'm not saying that there are no discriminations against foreign companies. Of course, there are information-related companies like Google and Facebook that has met with challenges, restrictions, outright bans, etc. Apple did super well, and it continues to thrive. Same thing with eBay, which it drove out. Amazon didn't do so well, not because of discrimination but because Alibaba is very powerful, and it caters to the Chinese tastes. If we take the automotive industry or the mobile phone industry, I'd say that in many of these at least consumer-oriented sectors, it's just about competition. JIN: There are lots of Western firms that have succeeded in all sectors, with the exception of the sensitive ones or the strategically important ones of the government, where there's restrictions on foreign investment. American business leaders complain of unfair competition in China. And when it's not, entrepreneurs often push it to change. But she maintains the state apparatus has often been very smart economically. Americans think about the overpowering bureaucracy of the Communist state, which is true. In fact, she argues that Americans get a lot of things subtly wrong. "The New China Playbook" offers a different perspective than many Western policymakers do about China. INSKEEP: She teaches now at the London School of Economics, and she has written a book about the economic development of her native country. INSKEEP: And you ended up going to college in the United States, as well, right? for high school as a Chinese exchange student when I was 14. KEYU JIN: I grew up in Beijing, but I chose to go to the U.S. We’ve featured all the submissions that were shortlisted by our panel of judges at the top of the page, so you know where to find the best of the best.The writer and scholar Keyu Jin has a foot in each of two worlds. Whether you’re looking for short bedtime stories for kids, or something for yourself stories to help you dream sweetly, or (for whatever reason) scary bedtime stories to keep you up - you’ll find it here. There are no rules as to what constitutes a bedtime story, and these stories have been written in response to a huge variety of creative prompts, so don’t worry: you’re not in for a snoozefest! This is the place to be! On this page you’ll find all the short stories submitted to our weekly writing contest that the authors have helpfully tagged as “bedtime” stories. Wouldn’t that be nice? Well, you’re in luck! Short bedtime stories for adults are having their moment, and we are here for it! Looking for a bedtime short story to curl up with? A golden nugget of a story, that doesn’t ask too much of you: no names to remember the following night, no rambling plotline to keep track of. Now, you might make your way through a novel in bite-sized chunks, but really you’d quite like to go back to the days of bedtime short stories. Then there was Goodnight Moon and Where the Wild Things Are, and the years you spent devouring Roald Dahl's books under the covers with a flashlight. ![]() You drifted off to The Three Little Pigs so many times as a child, that you can’t even remember how it ends. 2 … 53 Next › Last » The Best Bedtime Short Storiesīedtime short stories: likely our very first gateways to literature.
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