At the Los Angeles Times, David Pierson examines the hangover from China’s efforts to combat the 2008 financial crisis, beginning in a gleaming but deserted shopping mall in Beijing: “It gets better on...
At the Financial Times, Wen Jiabao trumpets China’s economic achievements and future prospects, three years on from the “eruption” of the global financial crisis. China has moved swiftly to fight the financial...
From the Japan Focus: Vietnam and China have much in common. There is no country more similar to China than Vietnam, and there is no country more similar to Vietnam than China. They share a Sinitic cultural background, communist...
From the Time Magazine: On a steamy saturday afternoon just outside Shanghai, Zhang Yi is in a blessedly cool General Motors showroom, kicking the tires of the company’s newer models. He’s not there to beat the heat....
On possible international consequences of China’s domestic challenges, here is one perception from an Indian expert, from Times of India: A leading defence expert has projected that China will attack India by 2012 to...
From Reuters, via the Forbes: The big first-half rebound in Chinese stocks was closely in step with improving economic fundamentals, though uncertainties still cloud the outlook, the country’s top securities regulator was...
From the New York Times: Strong buying by China has helped lift commodity prices around the world this spring, but growing evidence suggests that a sizable portion of this buying has been to build stockpiles in China, and may...
After being blocked from purchasing an Australian mining company, China has decided to push forward. From Reuters: China will steadily push its long time policy of ‘go abroad’, despite risks caused by the financial...
After filing for bankruptcy on the morning of June 1, 2009, American car company General Motors (GM), once one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, may be selling its Hummer brand to a Chinese heavy machinery...
Chinese education officials expect a nationwide drop in the number of students sitting for the college entrance exams this year. From Xinhua: China expects fewer students to participate in the upcoming three-day annual college...
Dan at the China Law Blog agrees with Richard Florida’s argument that cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong will not soon become centers of world finance, in spite of Asia’s fast-growing economic clout. The...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner spoke to reporters on his way to Beijing on Saturday, the first day of his highly-anticipated first visit to China. From MarketWatch: “We are seeing more durable stability in the...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner arrived in China this weekend, where he will meet Monday and Tuesday with some of China’s highest officials, including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. These are...
Chinese officials are waiting for the U.S. economy to recover from the financial crisis before they expect China’s to. From Reuters: Aggressive monetary and fiscal policies put in place over the past few months are being...
Environmental concerns have taken a backseat to economic interests in the global financial crisis. From Jonathan Ansfield of the New York Times: A year ago, pollution was a top issue around Duanjialing. Now, amid the global...
China’s gross domestic product output has grown by 6.1% in the first quarter, the worst quarterly growth rate in years. From Keith Bradsher of the New York Times: Still, 6.1 percent is substantially below the double-digit...
Desperate graduates apply for funeral jobs in Shanghai, via China Daily: It is the one business that is never short of clients, and 366 college graduates will this week find out if the city’s funeral industry is the answer...
Wen Jiabao, the premier of the State Council of China, comments on China’s economy that it shows positive changes but still faces “very big difficulties,” from BBC: The economy showed “better than...
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