You Can't Understand China Unless You Know How the Communist Party Thinks
The CPC came into being in 1921, almost a century ago.
Will The IMF Grant China's Currency Global Reserve Status?
The market doubts it, but it is possible that the Chinese currency, the renmimbi (RMB), may become part of the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights.
Psychedelic Video Sings Praises of China's Five Year-Plan
"If you wanna know what China's gonna do, best pay attention to the shisanwu."
Two-Child Policy Is Too Little, Too Late
When Chinese leaders convene this week for a four-day meeting on the future of the country’s economy, the biggest news might have to do with babies.
1 Month Later: What Are the Long-Term Implications of Xi's U.S. Trip?
While political and security matters dominated headlines, Xi’s U.S. trip was actually driven by economics.
Many in the West Fear Chinese ‘Aid’ to Africa. They’re Wrong. Here’s Why.
Western pundits have a narrative about China’s activities in Africa.
Here’s Why Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese Dream’ Differs Radically From the American Dream
Xi’s Chinese Dream is protean.
China and UK: Signs of a New 'Special Relationship?'
Does the UK have a new "special relationship?"
China to Build $5 Billion High-Speed Rail Line in Indonesia
China Railway International Co. Ltd and a consortium of Indonesian state companies will build the rail line from Jakarta to Bandung.
This Is Where China’s Future Will Be Decided
Lanzhou, China — The first thing you notice is the dust.
China Turns Firepower to Soft Power to Try to Win Tiny Taiwan-held Island
"In Kinmen, we can do what Taiwan can't, what Taiwan doesn't dare do."
China and Europe May Team Up to Snub TPP
The world's largest trade deal in recent decades may wind up creating high school-esque cliques on the international stage.
What Does China Think of the TPP?
China is taking a wait-and-see approach on the U.S.-led trade deal.
America’s Biggest Competitor Really Isn’t China
If you ask Americans who their country's biggest competitor is, many people will tell you China.
How China’s Economic Slowdown Will Impact Africa
The tremors in China’s faltering economy are being felt across Africa. Now that China has replaced Europe and the United States as most African countries’ largest trading partner, there is understandable concern that slowing demand in the P.R.C....
The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?
In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed.
China's Xi Says To Prioritize Energy Cooperation With Iran
"(We) must prioritize energy and financial cooperation."
Everyone Wants To Decouple From China – Except Osborne
UK Chancellor George Osborne urged Chinese firms to help build Britain’s “northern powerhouse” during his five-day long grand tour of China.
China Market Rout Doesn't Reflect Economy, Top Diplomat Says
“Some movements on the stock exchange in China should not equal the whole picture of the Chinese economy.”
China Hails U.S. Repatriation of Corruption Fugitive
The repatriation of Yang Jinjun marked the first time that China has succeeded in getting a wanted corruption suspectback from the U.S.
China's Xi Says Economy Resilient, Has Huge Potential: State Radio
China's economy is resilient and has the capacity to maintain a long-term medium-to-high growth rate.
Is Romance Dead? France Seeks New Image in China
France's finance minister wants to persuade Chinese officials to set aside their romantic image.
U.S. Won’t Impose Sanctions on Chinese Companies Before Xi Visit
Senior U.S. and Chinese officials reached “substantial agreement” on several cybersecurity issues.
One Thing China Got Right
Stocks plunged, monetary policy wavered, but Beijing finally fixed the "fixing."
Mapping Fallout From ‘Black Monday’: Who Was Hardest Hit?
August 24, which some have already dubbed “Black Monday,” was not a kind day to global equity markets. The rout began with a massive sell-off in China, where the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index plunged 8.49 percent in just one day. Those...
Is the Bloom Off the Rose of China’s Economic Miracle?
On Monday, August 24, the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 8.5 percent, its second such steep fall since late July, and its worst since...
Can Xi Jinping Turn China’s Economy Around?
On Monday, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 8.5 percent, erasing all of the gains it had made in an extraordinary run-up this year. The drop was the second 8.5 percent drop in recent weeks. The first such drop (the occasion for the Conversation...
China’s Shares Tumble Again
Artists, essayists, lawyers, bloggers and others deemed to be online troublemakers have been hauled into police stations and investigated or imprisoned for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a charge that was once confined to physical...
China Surprises With 7% Growth in Second Quarter
China’s growth remained at 7% in the second quarter, a level economists had thought would be hard to reach amid broad signs that Beijing’s policies to jump-start the economy hadn’t taken hold.
Good Riddance, Monsieur Epstein
from Sinica PodcastThe hosts of the Sinica Podcast are not surprised that Gady Epstein is moving on. We used to buy the papers for his “Telegrams from the Orient”, but then he took that Economist gig and his productivity plummeted and it has become hard to even...
Chinese Stocks Surge Most Since 2008 for World’s Biggest Rally
Rally buoyed by optimism around government plans to boost foreign access to the nation’s markets.
India Comes to China
from Sinica PodcastThis week’s Sincia Podcast is about the upcoming visit to China of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who served from 2001 to 2014 as Chief Minister of Gujarat and was sworn into office almost one year ago this month. Modi’s visit comes at an...
The Furor and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
from Sinica PodcastA total of 57 countries have now joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China’s newly-launched competitor to the Asian Development Bank (AIIB) that has sparked a flurry of objections from the United States, even culminating in a failed...
Henry Paulson: ‘Dealing with China’
from Asia BlogSpeaking at Asia Society New York on April 13 with New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson explained that it’s...
Does Size Matter? (In the U.S. and Chinese Economies, That Is...)
Last week, President Obama’s State of the Union Address touted a U.S. economic recovery....
Why Paul Krugman is Scared of China
"China scares me," he said Tuesday at the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong. "It scares me not because the policies have been wrong or anything, but because of the magnitude of the adjustment."
Inside a Chinese Test-Prep Factory
One minute later, at precisely 11:45, the stillness was shattered. Thousands of teenagers swarmed out of the towering front gate of Maotanchang High School. Many of them wore identical black-and-white Windbreakers emblazoned with the slogan, in...
China Offers Russia Ruble Help
China says it is willing to provide assistance to Russia following recent sharp drops in the value of its currency, said a senior official, as President Vladimir Putin’s regime faces continuing strains with the U.S. and Europe.
China’s Housing Resists Efforts to Spur Market
Every urban real estate market is different in mainland China, driven by myriad municipal and provincial regulations and the varying strength of local economies. But the outcome is the same: The property market is under serious pressure.
Diversity the New Game for Macau as Gambling Revenues Tumble
When inaugural chief executive Edmund Ho Hau-wah threw the liberalisation dice that took Macau's flagging gaming industry into the 21st century in 2002, few could have predicted its stellar rise to become the top city for global gaming, leaving...
Why Beijing’s Troubles Could Get a Lot Worse
from Barron’sFew foreigners know China as intimately as Anne Stevenson-Yang does. She has spent the bulk of her professional life there since first arriving in 1985, working as a journalist, magazine publisher, and software executive, with stints in between...
China Tightening Curbs on Opaque Local Debt Spurs Market Tumble
While the change caught traders off guard, authorities in the world’s second-largest economy are trying to rein in the use of lightly-regulated Local Government Finance Vehicles (LGFVs) as they promote the development of a more transparent...
‘China Strikes Back’: An Exchange
from New York Review of BooksLetters in response to: “China Strikes Back!” from the October 23, 2014 issue of The New York Review of Books.
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China Announces Import Support Measures as APEC Leaders Arrive
China tossed a bone to trading partners attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting this week by announcing a series of measures including more bank credit for high-tech imports and quicker approvals for meat and seafood shipments....
China Rolls out the Red Carpet for APEC
The APEC summit of nations that collectively represent more than half the global economy is more about dialogue and non-binding commitments than implementing change.
It’s Time to Give China Some Time
There’s also evidence the country may be approaching something of a Henry Ford moment, when a manufacturing-based economy matures to point where workers can afford to buy the products they're making.
China Says It Will Be Good Host to Japan During APEC
A one-on-one meeting would be a symbolic breakthrough in ties between the world's second- and third-biggest economies, which have turned frigid in the past two years over a territorial row.
All Eyes Will Be On China This Week
China's economy, the second largest in the world, gets a spot check this week with a barrage of data due that should indicate how successful Beijing has been in supporting growth.
China’s Economy Just Overtook The U.S. In One Key Measure
Here's another way of looking at it -- China's share of the global economy is now slightly bigger than America's, at 16.5 percent to 16.3 percent.
Follow the Money, China-Style
The appreciation of the yuan has failed to convince ordinary Chinese people that their money buys more; on the contrary, they feel it’s worth less.
For Cash-Strapped Parents, Two Babies Are Too Many
Call it reproduction with Chinese capitalist characteristics. On November 15, authorities announced that the country’s One-Child Policy would be...
Uncomfortable Bedfellows: How Much Does China Need America Now?
Bill Bishop:
The D.C. dysfunction puts China in a difficult place. Any financial markets turmoil that occurs because of a failure of Congress to do its job could harm China’s economy, and especially its exports. The accumulation...
China Second Quarter GDP to Test Reformers’ Stomach for Slower Growth
China's resolve to revamp its economy for the long-term good...