Washington Post,March 30, 2009 page A8: Crews are hard at work across Tokyo, an immaculately maintained city that is tripling its public works projects in an effort to fight back against the global recession. The rest of Japan is trying to decide whether to follow suit. (Photo in Kanji i.e. Hanzi: Pedestrians Passage in 4 Chinese characters.
"A Glimpse of the Chinese Language" is available at www.rand.org free of charge via PDF format as public service. Such cultural affinity can be known.
March 29,09 issue on page A8: Jump-Starting the Global economy: -
United States: $841 billion
China: $204 billion
Japan: $104 billion
The total amount of the stimulus packages approved by the G-20 countries amounts to $1.6 trillion. More than half of that comes from the USA.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao watching G-20 with profound zeal as a lifelong learner to study the happenings of "Lingonomics" the mix of language and economics.
March 30, 2009 at 2.28 p.m.
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