Disney CEO Iger Says China Has ‘Incredible Potential’
The 5.5 billion dollar theme park is designed to be “distinctly Chinese”.....
Didi Chuxing, China’s Rival to Uber, Scores $7 Billion in New Funding
The nation’s biggest ride sharing company succeeds in latest fundraising effort....
Disney Shares Keys To Magic Kingdom With China
A much needed partnership leaves the Communist Party with final say in everything from admssion price to ride design....
China Evicts Hundreds To Make Way For Disney Park
Shanghai residents and businesses are displaces with little to no compensation....
China, Hong Kong Shares Fall as Global Investors Flee Risky Assets
Investors fretted ahead of this week's central bank meetings and Britain's referendum on whether to remain in the EU.
Insurance Firm China Life Puts $600M into Didi Chuxing Months after Backing Uber
It provides an equity investment of $300 million, and a separate “long-term debt investment” of RMB 2 billion ($305 million).
In China, Disney Aims to Keep Security Behind the Scenes
With 330 million people only hours away, crowd control is paramount at new Shanghai Disneyland Resort.
U.S. Throws China Off High-Speed Rail Project
China state media says XpressWest’s move is irresponsible.
China’s Deal Makers Have German Tech Firms In Their Sights
Chinese investors are buying German companies at about one per week in 2016....
L’Oreal Is Setting A Dangerous Global Precedent By Bowing to China Over Free Speech
Lancome cancels concert to appeal to the mainland, sacrificing freedoms for their parnerships....
Are European Companies Falling Out of Love With China?
Beijing has left 41 percent of European companies pessimistic and re-evaluating their China operations—including through headcount reduction....
The China Africa Project
06.07.16
Industrialization in Africa: Ethiopia Wants to Become the New ‘Made in China’
There’s a pretty good chance that some of the clothes you’re wearing, the shoes on your feet, and even the device you’re using to read this were made in China. Even as its economy slows, China remains the world’s factory, churning out billions of...
Caixin Media
06.06.16
Uncertain Future for China’s Market Status Bid
It’s been 15 years since China joined the World Trade Organization, and yet China is still waiting for the WTO to grant it market economy status. During this period, some Chinese businesses have expanded overseas while others have...
China’s Factory to the World Is in a Race to Survive
President Xi wants Guangdong to set an example in his goal of moving away from the cheap-labor export model to an innovation-and-consumption-based one.
Bitcoin, Meet China. May You Have Many Happy Days Together.
Most trading in bitcoin takes place in China: Huobi and OKCoin, two Chinese exchanges, are thought to account for more than 90% of transactions.
Record Showing for China on 'Power Women' List
The US dominated the list with 51 women represented, while China was second with nine women listed.
U.S. Chides China on Steel Glut, Treatment of Foreign Companies at Annual Talks
The U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing is overshadowed by growing trade friction and the dispute over the South China Sea.
China's Smartphone Billionaire Forges Alliance With Microsoft For Patent Portfolio
Xiaomi is buying about 1,500 patents from Microsoft to support its international expansion.
United Flies Further Into China
Direct flights into second-tier cities from the U.S. is made possible because the U.S.-China air treaty doesn’t include as many limits on the number of flights to secondary cities.
Media
05.31.16
Will China’s ‘Taobao Villages’ Spur a Rural Revolution?
from chinadialogueThe province of Shanxi, in northern China, is famous for coal mining...
Depth of Field
05.31.16
Families, Weddings, and Beekeepers
from Yuanjin PhotoThis month’s Depth of Field column brings the stories of Chinese adoption; the marriage ceremony of Hu Mingliang and Sun Wenlin, a gay couple who filed the first civil rights marriage lawsuit to be accepted by a Chinese court (...
The China Africa Project
05.26.16
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Chinese in Africa But Were Too Afraid to Ask
The Chinese presence in Africa has been so sudden and so all-encompassing that it’s left a lot of people confused. Chinese farmers now compete for space and customers in Lusaka’s open-air markets, Chinese textiles are undercutting...
China's Richest Man Just Picked a Fight With Disneyland
Wang Jianlin’s Wanda Group is also building amusement parks.
Abandoning TPP Free-Trade Deal Would Give China Free Pass: Chamber of Commerce
If America backs out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, free trade allies in the region may turn to China.
China’s Midea Group Announces Bid for Germany’s Kuka
The offer is one of the largest unsolicited approaches of a foreign company by a Chinese buyer.
Real-Estate Lawsuits Surge in China
Undelivered homes drive some buyers to sue while developers seek refunds on land.
Conversation
05.16.16
Escalation in the South China Sea
International tensions are rising over the shipping lanes and land formations in the South China Sea. Last week, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force scrambled fighter jets in response to a U.S. Navy ship sailing near the disputed Fiery Cross...
Three Myths about China in Kenya
Despite many problems, China’s involvement in Kenya is a net positive, as most trade relations in the world tend to be.
Tim Cook Visits China in Hopes Beijing Will Take Another Bite of the Apple
The visit comes as the company’s prospects in its second largest market appear to be souring.
The China Africa Project
05.16.16
Why Chinese Agriculture Engagement in Africa is Not What it Seems
The Western and African media have long fueled the myth that Chinese investors are buying up vast tracts of land across...
Apple Raises Bet on China as It Faces Scrutiny From Beijing
Apple invests $1 billion in a Chinese ride-hailing app to show the Chinese government it is interested in supporting local business.
Environment
05.13.16
Why China's Nuclear Exports May Struggle to Find a Market
from chinadialogueChina’s nuclear power industry has eyed up a big push to export its technologies as countries around the world...
Apple's Uphill Battle with China Is a Reminder That There's No Such Thing As "Borderless" Tech
Tech companies will have to invest more resources in political risk control.
The $Mog Economy: Bottled Air Takes off as a Big Business in China
Moses Lam was an overworked mortgage broker when he started selling bags of air from Canada on eBay as a joke.
China, Taiwan Add Tourists to Their Squabbles
"China is using its tourists as a bargaining chip against Taiwan's new government," said Lu Shiao-ya, chief of the National Joint Association of Tourist Buses.
Huya Bridges China's Novel Drugs With Overseas Markets
When Mireille Gillings, founder and chairman of Huya Bioscience International first visited China in 2004, she saw a niche that could grow.
The Latest U.S.-China Trade Spat Is over Chicken
The Obama administration has accused China of unfairly blocking U.S. poultry imports, the latest in a series of election-year trade disputes between Washington and Beijing.
Facebook Wins China Trademark Case
Such cases involve a Chinese company registering a high-profile Western name to benefit by forcing the company to either buy it back or take the matter to court.
Conversation
05.05.16
How Should Global Stakeholders Respond to China’s New NGO Management Law?
A new law gives broad powers to China’s police in regulating and surveilling the activities of foreign NGOs in China. The law would require foreign groups including foundations, charities, advocacy organizations, and academic exchange programs to...
Books
05.05.16
Alibaba
In just a decade and half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into one of the world’s largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Alibaba’s $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the largest global IPO ever. A Rockefeller of his age who is courted by CEOs and Presidents around the world, Jack is an icon for China’s booming private sector and the gatekeeper to hundreds of millions of middle class consumers.
China Bondholders Lose Their Beijing-Bailout Confidence
Investors’ long-held assumption that the government would step up for state-run companies is shaken.
The New Qualification for China’s Tech Elite: Goldman Sachs
Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial set to hire banker Douglas Feagin, latest in a string of Goldman alumni at Chinese Internet firms.
China Investigates Baidu After Student’s Death From Cancer
Chinese regulators have begun an investigation into the Internet giant Baidu due to misleading medical advertising.
Apple No Longer Has Exclusive Rights to The "iPhone" Name in China
Apple lost a trademark suit against a Chinese company, which now has right to make and sell leather products branded “IPHONE.”
China Wants to Own Small Stake in Web Firms
The Chinese government’s control over the Internet could get even tighter, with regulators floating a proposal for the state to take 1% stakes in major Chinese Internet.
China Sales Slide Eats Into Apple Revenue
Revenue from Greater China fell $4.3 billion, but iPhone sales in India picked up.
After Years of Big 3 Dominance, China Is About to Get a Fourth Telco
In an unexpected move, CBN is issued a telecom operator license, allowing it to compete with China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom.
Chinese Official Calls Trump 'Irrational' on Trade
Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei criticized Trump for his proposal that tariffs on imported Chinese goods be increased to up to 45%.
Caixin Media
04.18.16
Chinese Electric Vehicle Manufacturer BYD’s Image Hurt by Scandal Involving Dealer’s Suicide
China’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, BYD Auto Co., is under intense scrutiny following the death of a Nanjing auto dealer who accused the company of bilking a government subsidy program and a Caixin probe suggesting the...
The China Africa Project
04.14.16
China’s Growing Appetite for African Real Estate
Amid a prolonged economic downturn and a weakening yuan, Chinese investors have turned their focus to buying overseas assets. While there are a number of complicated reasons behind the massive capital outflows over the past 18...
Conversation
04.12.16
Should Internet Censorship Be Considered a Trade Issue?
A new report from the Office of the United States Trade Representative lists, for the first time, Chinese Internet censorship as a trade barrier. The possible implications are complex: it could strengthen the hand of U.S. businesses, but also...
Caixin Media
04.12.16
Chinese Telecoms Gear Maker ZTE Fighting U.S. Export Ban
The second-largest maker of telecoms gear in China is scrambling to get off a U.S. export blacklist that threatens to dry up supplies of critical components.
“The investigations are still in progress, and may result in...
Rising in the East
China's film industry has grown so big so fast, that it is now looking to compete with Hollywood.
U.S. Adds China’s Internet Controls to List of Trade Barriers
The limits have posed a significant burden to foreign suppliers, hurting both Internet sites and users who depend on them for business.”
China’s Homegrown Rival to Uber Valued at Over $25 Billion
Beijing-based Didi Kuaidi Joint Co. is close to completing its latest funding round to raise more than $1.5 billion.
China Steps up Panama Papers Censorship after Leaders' Relatives Named
It's dangerous for higher leaders regarding internal party credibility as much as the broader public.