by Laura Conaway

NPR's Louisa Lim checks in from Shanghai with this invaluable report: "Economic Slowdown Hits Chinese Industry Hard." One manufacturer tells her that everything now costs more, but he hasn't been able to raise prices on his products.

"It's an economic tsunami," Mr. Su says. "America's problems are washing over Asia and the whole world. It's like an economic world war. It's an economic catastrophe."

I'm about to go pick up my visa for a China trip next month. I'm very curious to see what people there have to say.