From Financial Times: Chinese companies are set to be Asia’s most acquisitive in the US or Europe next year, according to a survey of the region’s dealmakers. Nearly 60 per cent of those polled believe mainland Chinese companies will outstrip rivals in countries such as India and Japan in outbound merger and acquisitions activity in […]
Read MoreFrom BusinessWeek: In years past, foreigners were skeptical about China, doubting whether it would ever become a stable society and have a decent economy. In years recent, foreigners are nervous about China, worrying whether China will take over the world (at least economically). But how do China’s own researchers and leaders think about the future […]
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: Comrades, Now I would like to make a report to the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China {CPC} on behalf of the Sixteenth Central Committee. The Seventeenth Congress is one of vital importance being held at a crucial stage of China’s reform and development. The theme of […]
Read MoreFrom China Policy Institute website: China’s currency, the RMB, was pegged to the U.S. dollar at a rate of around 8.28 RMB to 1 U.S. dollar for 11 years from 1994, when the official rate of RMB was depreciated to the prevailing market rate and China started to adopt a unified exchange rate. For many […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: President Bush met privately with the Dalai Lama at the White House on Tuesday, as tensions escalated between the United States and China over Congress’s awarding its highest civilian honor to the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. The 30-minute meeting, which the Dalai Lama said included a discussion of the situations in […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing Magazine: As the current issue of Caijing reaches our readers, the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is getting under way, opening October 15 in Beijing. We previously noted that 2007 was...
Read MoreChina and Europe share similar concerns when it comes to energy security and the future of our changing climate. Increased cooperation lights the way ahead, writes Jennifer Morgan, published by China Dialogue: No other country has transformed itself – in just 13 years – from being a major oil exporter to being the world’s second-largest […]
Read MoreA bride and groom celebrate atop the Great Wall, by Today is a good day
Read MoreWeeks before the 17th Party Congress, the crackdown on online forums, blogs and other forms of interactive communication platforms was in full swing. Now that the Party Congress is in session, all the main official and...
Read MoreA side effect of China’s yawning economic inequality. Translated by CDT from China Economy Weekly magazine (‰∏≠ÂõΩÁªèʵéÂë®Âàä): Liu Jianbing (Âàòª∫ÂÖµ), a pseudonym, was recently a principal of a rural elementary school at Shuozhou City (ÊúîÂ∑û) in Shanxi Province. He just resigned from the school, after years of continual dropping of enrollments at his school. In […]
Read MoreChina’s former president Jiang Zemin being served as President Hu Jintao delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the 17th Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 15, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Lee Photo source: duowei.com
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Zeng Jinyan does not look like a dissident. She is small, heavily pregnant and has a liking for colourful dresses. But the Chinese security operatives who permanently watch the apartment she shares with her husband are an indicator of just how influential she has become. The 24-year-old uses the internet to pass […]
Read MoreFrom CNet News.com Blog: The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee is summoning Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang to Washington to talk about “how the Internet company gave false information to Congress about its role in a human rights case in China that sent a journalist to jail for a decade,” according to […]
Read MoreThis OP-ED is published on Los Angeles Times: The conventional wisdom is that China is rising and the United States is on its way down. According to this view, the 21st century challenge for U.S. foreign policy is to manage our inevitable decline as gracefully as possible as the new superpower of the East reaches […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The Shanghai stock market surged 2.15 percent yesterday to close at 6030.09, breaking through the 6000 barrier for the first time during the course of the day. Led by oil and petroleum, and non-ferrous metal shares, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index jumped 126.82 points, with 389 of 906 stocks closing higher. The […]
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