American trade deals typically stretch to thousands of pages. 美国的贸易协定通常长达数千页。 The new phase one trade deal between America and China takes up only 86. 美国和中国新的第一阶段贸易协议仅占86页。 Wang Shou...
Delegates in Madrid drew up guidelines for environmentally sound trading principles for this putative market. 在马德里的代表们为这个假定的市场制定了无害环境的贸易原则准则。 What they did not make clear was how all this...
Meanwhile, although racism persists, the pervasive discrimination of earlier ages has waned. Witness the presidential campaign of Andrew Yang, in which his ethnicity has scarcely been mentioned. Since the Chinese-American population is six times as b...
Annual UN climate summits are never moments of unbridled optimism, 每年一度的联合国气候峰会从来不是盲目乐观的时刻， but this year's, held in Madrid and dubbed COP25, was particularly dispiriting. Its logo was a clock with its...
Paul Volcker, chairman of the Fed and America's doughtiest inflation-fighter, died on December 8th, aged 92 保罗沃尔克是美联储主席和美国最勇猛的通货膨胀斗士，他于12月8日去世，享年92岁。 In his spells of leisure tim...
That, in truth, was a consoling simplification. Americans have traditionally been willing to pay through the nose at French or Italian joints (where, in fact, Latinos often do most of the cooking). And every city has its pricey sushi bars and exorbit...
The comfort of strangers 陌生人的慰藉 Chinese restaurants began to open in America in the mid-19th century, clustering on the west coast where the first immigrants landed. They mostly served an Americanised version of Cantonese cuisine chop sue...
The past 12 months give reason for scepticism. In December 2018 OPEC and its partners agreed to reduce output by 1.2m barrels a day. 过去12个月的种种给了我们怀疑的理由。2018年12月，OPEC及其合作伙伴同意将日产量削减120万...
The more Tours he lost, the more the crowds liked him and the more he earned. At the height of his celebrity, in the mid-1970s, almost half of respondents to one poll made him their first choice as a dinner guest. In 1974 alone more than 4,000 articl...
Books arts 来源于《图书与艺术》版块 Immigration on a plate 盘子上的移民 A bao in every steamer 每个蒸笼上都有一个包子 The development of Chinese-American cuisine reflects the communitys own upward trajectory 美籍华人烹...
It has been a difficult time for anyone betting on oil. Climate change threatens long-term demand. 对那些押注石油的人而言，这是一段艰难的时期。气候变化威胁着长期需求。 In the past year ample production, trade dispute...
That points to another lesson, which is that the remedy to technology-related problems very often involves more technology. Airbags and other improvements in safety features, for example, mean that in America deaths in car accidents per billion miles...
Todays gloomy mood is centred on smartphones and social media, which took off a decade ago. Yet concerns that humanity has taken a technological wrong turn, or that particular technologies might be doing more harm than good, have arisen before. In th...
Leaders 来源于《社论》版块 Pessimism v progress 悲观VS技术进步 Contemporary worries about the impact of technology are part of a historical pattern 当代对技术影响的担忧是历史模式的一部分 Faster, cheaper, bettertechno...
骑自行车的人雷蒙布里多(3) With his lined, wind-burned face and slow Limousin drawl, he reminded his followers of the old ways, la France profonde and all kinds of comforting verities that had been pushed aside by modern life. He kept a pea...
