Tag: China
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Old China has disappeared
I have just come back from holiday in China where I travelled over 2000 miles in 15 days. Our trip took in Beijing, Xian (Terracotta Warriors), Chengdu (Pandas), Guilin (scenery), and Hong Kong and we travelled by air, train and coach. This is hardly a scientific appraisal of a country of 1.4 Bn people, were…
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Networks of ships
For a long time I worked in the shipping industry. It is a facinating business that has changed our world. For many people and places the changes of the last 40 years have been delivered by networks of ships not networks of computers. The rise of Asia and the decline of the West’s industrial heartlands…
Dr James Bayley 