From Yale Global Online, a two-part article about the relationship between China and the U.S. From the Introduction to Part I, by David Shambaugh (link): The US and China are parties to the world’s most important bilateral relationship, and this two-part series analyzes the challenges and opportunities confronting two world powers. In the first article, […]
Read MoreFrom BusinessWeek (link) Many retail investors outside of China wonder how they can get exposure to the booming mainland economy. They hear stories of venture capital funds making fortunes by investing in companies like Sohu.com (SOHU ), China’s biggest Web portal, and want to get a piece of the action. Unfortunately for the small investor, […]
Read MoreFrom Foreign Policy Magazine (link): Beijing’s investment in Africa dates back some six centuries, when explorers set off from Asia across the Indian Ocean. More recently, during the early years of the Cold War, Beijing lined up supporters for its “one China” policy on Taiwan by dangling aid as a carrot. China has often played […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link) Two leading Chinese economists have called on the government to interfere less in economic life and for greater opening to foreign and private investment. Wu Jinglian, an adviser to China’s parliament and former head of the cabinet’s economic think-tank, said reform was being resisted by opponents wedded to the disastrous […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link) China should deregulate its telecoms market and ease entry for foreign competition and investment, Forrest Miller, group president of AT&T, the US’s biggest telecoms group, has urged. In an unusual expression of public discontent from a pioneer in China’s telecoms market, Mr Miller also said China should re-examine and update […]
Read MoreFrom Project Syndicate: China’s government finally appears to be acknowledging the urgent challenges presented by the country’s aging population. On December 12, it released a cabinet-level White Paper on the problem – the first of its kind ¬≠‚Äì in an effort to grapple with the prospect of rising social-security and healthcare costs, a tightening labor […]
Read MoreThe following is a full list of Zhejiang Province delegates to this year’s annual session of the National People’s Congress, currently underway in Beijing. The names were posted on March 14 by moogee, along with lists of delegates from Hebei, Liaoning and Shanxi provinces, on the SOHO Xiaobao BBS. (Password = 4) (Translated by CDT. […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): China is revising a draft Property Law after delaying passage of the long-awaited legislation because of fierce ideological debate among officials and academics over its balancing of state and private rights. The dispute over the Property Law highlights political sensitivities that continue to surround Communist-ruled China’s embrace of the market […]
Read MoreThe following post is from the China-based Ah-Q Weekly blog (link: ÈòøQÂë®Âàä), translated and links embedded by CDT; the author’s writing mixes using a sarcastic tone and some real heartfelt words: About the NPC and...
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Houston Chronicle: Just days before a Chinese firm announced a $2.3 billion investment in a Nigerian oil field last month, President Hu Jintao warned that China has to rein in surging energy use that has made it one of the world’s biggest oil importers. The announcements underlined the dual tracks […]
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