Oct 14 Watch Government Control Over China’s Economy Even as China moves toward a more globalized economy, political freedom in the communist country remains restricted. The seventh report on China looks at the difficulty of innovation in a censored environment. Continue watching
Oct 13 Watch Intellectual Piracy in China By PBS News Hour Merchants selling fake products such as Pfizer's Viagra in violation of intellectual property rights threaten manufacturers who depend on patents to protect large monetary investments in research and development. The sixth report in a series on China's rising economy examines… Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch Interview With Cheng Siwei Chinese Communist Party official Cheng Si-wei talks to NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman about economic relations with the United States, foreign investment, textile exports and the recent revaluation of China's currency. Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch Misinvestment in China By PBS News Hour In recent years, China's government has channeled investment into urban and business development, neglecting its enormous peasant class. The government recently pledged, however, to bridge the income gap. Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch Game Theory University of Maryland professor Thomas Schelling, one of the recent winners of the Nobel Prize for economics, discusses the field of game theory. Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch Bridging the Income Gap in China Two experts discusses a recent shift in economic policy by the Chinese government. Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch Hurricane Katrina Job Losses Two experts discuss the unemployment fallout from Hurricane Katrina. Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch Mao’s Influence on China Nearly three decades after the death of Communist leader Mao Zedong, the "Great Helmsman" is still nearly omnipresent in China. Continue watching
Oct 05 Watch China’s Vast Consumer Class In the second in a series on China, business corespondent Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston examines the vast Chinese consumer market. Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch Private Companies Rebuild Gulf Awards to private contractors to aid recovery along the Gulf Coast make the largest transfer of federal fund into private hands. Most of the contracts were awarded with little or no bidding, worrying government watchdog groups. A report from Louisiana… Continue watching