George Wehrfritz reports in NewsWeek: Workers are losing factory jobs at the fastest rate in decades. Automakers—having failed to anticipate today’s sales slump—are lobbying politicians for bailouts. The stock market is a...
Read MoreFrom NewsWeek: For weeks the world has eagerly awaited word from the Obama transition team about the people who will head up the next American administration-the new secretaries of state and Treasury, the attorney general. But...
Read MoreIn Gansu, a violent riot broke out after the city of Longnan announced plans to demolish and relocate the city center. From the Los Angeles Times: The violence, one of the most marked instances of social unrest to grip China in...
Read MorePresident Hu Jintao has arrived in Cuba on his tour of Latin America. China is the island’s biggest trading partner after Venezuela. From the BBC: China has seen its trade with Latin American nations climb from $13bn in...
Read MoreIn the wake of the financial crisis, the Chinese economy is faring worse than expected, with the largest financial institutions in the country being among the hardest hit. Caijing reports on the estimated losses of...
Read MoreAs China faces industrial decline and economic slowdown, an increasing number of factory owners are abandoning ship, leaving workers unpaid and companies mired in debt, according to the Los Angeles Times: Government statistics...
Read MoreZhang Hong is deputy editor in chief of Beijing’s Economic Observer Online. He writes in the Guardian: The Chinese news media is tightly controlled. To make things worse, decisions by the censors are often arbitrary....
Read MorePhilip Stephens reports in The Financial Times: Owning up to the geopolitical implications will be as painful for the rich nations as paying the domestic price for the profligacy. The erosion of the west’s moral authority that...
Read MoreIn light of the recent financial crisis, it remains largely ambiguous as to how a Western-originating credit crunch will impact Chinese financial health. A convenient starting point, however, is in understanding how...
Read MoreFrom Time: Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari completed his first state trip to Beijing on Oct. 17, signing a raft of new agreements with a nation he had hailed in Islamabad four days earlier as “the future of the...
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