The Economist provides a Who’s Who of China’s financial system: FROM being a rounding error a decade ago, the financial clout of China now trails only that of America. By market capitalisation, it has three of the...
Read MoreA group of migrant workers in Zhengzhou surrounded the construction project manager’s BMW to demand their wages, which they have not received for six months. ChinaHush translates an article from Zhengzhou Evening News: Not...
Read MoreOn Truthdig (via The Nation), Robert Scheer argues that those blaming China for the global financial woes are off-base: Citigroup led the way into the massive marketing of toxic collateralized debt obligations that has brought...
Read MoreChinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met with Nigerian officials to discuss oil exports and other energy matters. From Bloomberg: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, on a six-nation tour of Africa and the Middle East, met his...
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: China’s state-owned banks have become a main engine of the global recovery, financing the construction of copper mines, purchase of airplanes, expansion of retail stores and other projects even as...
Read MoreIn Forbes, Gady Epstein writes that “a fast-growing pile of dicey debt” is responsible for China’s surging economy, but the bubble may soon burst: Signs of the times: government bureaucracies funding themselves...
Read MoreThe war of words between Chinese and U.S. negotiators at the Copenhagen climate change conference continues. From the Christian Science Monitor: Perhaps the most visible disagreement so far is the one between the US, the...
Read MoreBloomberg reports on Obama’s reception in Asia so far: Obama is using the trip to redefine the U.S. relationship with Asia from its biggest debtor and largest single buyer of consumer goods to a more balanced partnership...
Read MorePresident Obama arrived in Shanghai earlier and has planned a town hall meeting with students. The White House has set up a bilingual interface to stream the event and will also stream it on the White House website and via...
Read MoreOn the eve of President Obama’s arrival in Shanghai, there is much analysis of the U.S.-China relationship in the world press, with a general focus on America’s growing reliance on China. From The Guardian: The US...
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