Over the past month, in response to disappointing economic data, various Chinese government agencies have announced measures intended to stimulate household spending and bolster consumer confidence. China’s economy continues to...
Are cadres the answer to China’s property market crunch? Some local officials seem to believe so. Hundreds of thousands of homebuyers across China have boycotted their mortgages payments in protest against the stalled...
China will soon hand over a newly constructed $140-million-dollar parliamentary building to Zimbabwe. Built by contractor Shanghai Construction Group Company and funded by the Chinese government, the building is the latest...
The Chinese government has been courting the Global South to advance its image as a responsible guarantor of international security and development. Last week, China took the initiative by hosting the first China-Horn of Africa...
This week, the Beijing-based Unirule Institute of Economics announced that it would close after...
Keith Bradsher at The New York Times reports that the Chinese government is starting to rein in...
Although China is seen by many as a world superpower with growing economic influence, Ian...
China and Canada, two very important economic players in the Asia Pacific, are surveying the benefits to come from their relationship. The Wall Street Journal reports on the Canadian International Trade Minister’s ongoing...
The Financial Times’ chief economics commentator Martin Wolf gives his views on how China should wield its growing clout on the world stage: China needs to develop its own view of how to use its influence. In doing so, it...
Forbes is predicting that in the upcoming economic talks between China and the U.S., the two countries won’t make any new inroads, rather “transition will be the central theme,” with President George W. Bush...
How much did China’s worst snowstorms in five decades cost? According to Bloomberg, $21 billion in direct economic loss and 129 people died: Blizzards, ice and freezing temperatures since January have forced the evacuation...
Some Chinese women in the 2007 “The 50 Women to Watch” list by the Wall Street Journal: 23) HU XIAOLIAN Deputy Governor PEOPLE’S BANK OF CHINA Administrator STATE ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE As the overseer of what are now the world’s largest foreign-exchange reserves, Hu Xiaolian is having to overcome the special challenges of size. […]
From The Guardian: The past two or three years have marked a new moment in the global perception of China. There is suddenly a new awareness that encompasses both a recognition of China’s economic transformation and an understanding that, because of its huge size and cohesive character, it will have a profound impact on the […]
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