It is also long past due that the "wink and nod" approach to state-owned Chinese companies listing in the U.S. equity markets come to an abrupt end.

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The transfer of ownership of state assets to private owners will not be a new and decisive act, but simply the correct settlement of bills long past due.

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Scientists, and now economists, are telling us that we are long past due for a more honest accounting of the true costs of carbon dioxide, which is being emitted into the atmosphere largely at zero cost.

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