Economic update released on March 10, 2012 by Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of the Economic Policy Studies Group, Irwin Stelzer.
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A truck drives through the Alataw Pass Comprehensive Bonded Zone in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Located in the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bortala in Xinjiang, the Alataw Pass borders Kazakhstan. (Getty Images)