Over the last two weeks, I’ve made several trips down to the sprawling 5.28 sq km Expo 2010 grounds on the Huangpu riverbanks. For my American readers, this revelation likely doesn’t generate much excitement – even if I tell you that – in scale and historical importance – Expo 2010 is designed to evoke and…
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Shovel Girls and Sandboxes: The US Pavilion Groundbreaking, at last!
Posted on Author AdamPosted in Architecture, Expo 2010, Expo 2010 - US Pavilion, US-China Policy6 Replies
Two things I want to make clear from the outset. First, despite appearances, Shanghai Scrap is not becoming all US Expo 2010 Pavilion, all of the time. It just seems that way. Rest assured: I’ll be back with some quality iron ore/Rio Tinto blogging next week (for the record: I was blogging Rio Tinto and price-fixing in…
A US Expo 2010 pavilion, after all.
Posted on Author AdamPosted in Architecture, Expo 2010, Expo 2010 - US Pavilion, US Politics9 Replies
Coming at the end of a tumultuous week in China marked by earthquakes, riots, and continued economic uncertainty, the news that the US had finally confirmed its participation in Expo 2010 (a/k/a, next year’s world fair) didn’t seem particularly significant. And, with much of Shanghai’s foreign correspondent corps preoccupied with more pressing news elsewhere in…
US Expo 2010 Pavilion: When confirmation isn’t confirmation [Updated]
[UPDATE 7/3: Sure enough, this morning, Xinhua issued a new story, denying that the US had confirmed: “US participation in Shanghai World Expo Remains Unconfirmed.“] Earlier today, Chinese media (Xinhua) announced that the US will participate in Expo 2010, running a brief story entitled: “U.S. to participate in 2010 Shanghai 2010 World Expo.” Shortly thereafter,…
New category: Expo 2010 – US Pavilion
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve received a serious uptick in visitors in search of information on the (still non-existent) US pavilion for Expo 2010, and the sorry fiasco that has tarnished it. So, to make these searches a bit easier, I’ve just added a new ‘Expo 2010 – US Pavilion‘ category. Click there…
US Expo 2010 Pavilion, Inc: Here Comes the Cover-up!
Posted on Author AdamPosted in Expo 2010, Expo 2010 - US Pavilion, US Politics, US-China Policy15 Replies
Yesterday Shanghai Scrap reported that Shanghai Expo 2010, Inc., the group authorized by the US State Deparment to fund, design, and build a US pavilion for Expo 2010, had issued a press release claiming – falsely – that the US Congress had adopted a resolution in support of their efforts. The key quote in the…
The Secrets of the US Expo 2010 Pavilion
We are now less than two weeks away from the deadline for the US to begin construction on a stand-alone pavilion for Expo 2010. And, according to Shanghai Expo 2010, Inc., the group authorized to finance, design, and build the US national pavilion, things are looking up. Reportedly, Hillary Clinton has made supportive phone calls…
Credibility and the US Expo 2010 Pavilion
[UPDATE: Make sure to take a look at comment #1, below, left by Rich Brubaker of the All Roads Lead to China blog, in which he witnesses what appeared to be two US State Dept employees soliciting contributions for the US pavilion in a hotel restaurant.] In the next couple of days I’ll have much…
Why can’t the US find $61 million for an Expo 2010 pavilion? A primer.
Posted on Author AdamPosted in Architecture, Expo 2010, Expo 2010 - US Pavilion, US Politics, US-China Policy28 Replies
At the moment, there ‘s almost no reason to believe that the United State will occupy a stand-alone pavilion when Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai on May 1, 2010. And though this doesn’t seem to be a matter of much concern in the United States, it is a matter of intense concern in Shanghai, and…
Blunt talk from China on the US Expo 2010 pavilion.
Posted on Author AdamPosted in Appreciations and Recommendations, Expo 2010, Expo 2010 - US Pavilion, US Politics, US-China Policy9 Replies
[Additional Expo related articles and posts here, here, here, and here. More to come in the days and weeks ahead.] Quite a bit of discussion on Shanghai Scrap, and elsewhere, on whether or not US interests are served by building a pavilion for Shanghai’s Expo 2010. That’s good: Americans need to be thinking seriously about…