Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 2, 2015

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John Cassidy, New Yorker: China’s Economic Slowdown: How Bad Is It?

Tuesday was another nervy day on Wall Street: the Dow closed down almost four hundred and seventy points, or about three per cent. The immediate issue, once again, was China, which by some measures is now the world’s second-largest economy. In Beijing, the government released a set of figures indicating that output from the country’s enormous manufacturing sector is declining. Another new statistic showed that the Chinese services sector, which has been growing pretty strongly, is now exhibiting some weakness, too.

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 2, 2015

Banks Are Perilously Exposed to China -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

Is This Man Responsible for China’s Stock Market Crash? -- Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat

China Manipulated Its Stock Market Last Week Because of a Parade -- Jordan Weissmann, Slate

Standing apart, South Korea's Park heads to China's WWII extravaganza -- Donald Kirk, CSM

Passive-Aggressive Rivalry Deepens China-Japan Tensions -- Rachel Vandenbrink & Yanmei Xie. Lowy Institute

Thanks to Libya, North Korea Might Never Negotiate on Nuclear Weapons -- Doug Bandow, National Interest

Two years into Rouhani presidency, Iranians ask for more -- The Guardian

Is Gaza becoming 'uninhabitable'? -- Cara Anna, Associated Press

Amid violence in Kiev, Ukraine tries to find a 'decentralized' peace -- Fred Weir, CSM

Will Russia Block Facebook? -- Nikolai Epple, Moscow Times

Why Russia Is Dominating The Battle For The Arctic -- Jennings Brown, Vocativ

The Real Arctic Threat -- John McCain, WSJ

Latin America's 100 Years of Slow Growth -- Justin Fox, Bloomberg

Why should we care about preserving the past — or protecting our future? -- David Ignatius, Washington Post