Paramount Rushes for Beijing ‘Transformers’ Premiere Amid Dispute
The studio was hit by claims of a product-placement deal gone sour.
China’s Henan Province Creating Jobs in US Hinterlands
Henan's Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group opened a plant that will employ more than 300 in a county known less for job opportunities than for lakes filled with bass, pine forests rich with wild turkey and boar.
Zhang Lei has Lunch with the FT
The billionaire Chinese financier was among the first to see the potential in homegrown internet companies. He talks about a career that began when he rented out comics at the age of seven.
Infographics
06.20.14
The Problem with Chinese Gas Prices
from Sohu
Implementing higher fuel standards in order to reduce air pollution is a good thing. But the “Big Two” oil companies who control the petroleum industry—Sinopec and CNPC—should take responsibility for the increased cost. Consumers already pay huge...
Chinese Directors on Winning Global Box Office: ‘Attacking Hollywood Is the Best Way’
At the Shanghai Film Festival's most popular forum, leading local film figures debate whether Hollywood is friend or foe.
As China’s Leader Fights Graft, His Relatives Shed Assets
As President Xi Jinping prepares to tackle what may be the biggest cases of official corruption in more than six decades of Communist Party rule, new evidence suggests that he has been pushing his own family to sell hundreds of millions of...
Foreign Direct Investment in China Declines
Foreign firms worry over arbitrary law enforcement, rising labor costs.
Rigged: Comradely Relations Go From Bad to Worse
Vietnam and China share a long history of enmity—and of managing to patch things up when they go wrong. But their latest dispute is not running true to form.
Instagram Grows in China, Despite Ban on Parent Facebook
While Facebook itself is blocked by the Chinese government, Facebook-owned Instagram is growing fast in that country.
Alibaba Acquires UCWeb, Maker Of China’s Most Popular Mobile Browser
Alibaba, already an investor in UCWeb, will buy all remaining shares of the web browser and search company. The two firms announced the merger, one of the most significant among Chinese Internet companies to date, earlier today.
Ten Questions Cambridge University Must Now Answer Over the Chong Hua Donation
The news that one of China's most powerful political families has endowed a professorial chair at Cambridge University raises profound and disturbing questions, both about the integrity of British academia and the reach of China's soft-power...
The World Cup: Brought to You by One of China's Greenest Corporations
Yingli's got solar panels, and Latin America's got sun. Hey, perfect match.
China Now Has More Millionaires Than Any Country but the U.S.
China had 2,378,000 millionaire households in 2013, a rise of 82% from the previous year and almost double the 1,240,000 millionaire households in Japan, according to the Boston Consulting Group Global Wealth 2014 report ...
China Auto Sales Rise But Domestic Brands Lag
Sales in the world's biggest auto market accelerated in May but domestic Chinese brands lagged and their market share shrank, an industry group reported Tuesday.
China’s Real Estate Downturn Spells Trouble for Global Economy
The world's largest trading nation's economic growth remains heavily dependent on property, meaning a sharp downturn in that sector would be felt across Asia and beyond.
How “Rogue” Is China's Aid?
Moisés Naím has called Chinese development assistance “rogue aid,” claiming that it is nondemocratic and harmful to progress and to average citizens.
Costco Keeps Selling Treats From China Despite Dog Death
Costco is under fire for continuing to sell pet jerky treats from China, despite being warned by an owner whose veterinarian believes treats purchased there killed her Yorkshire terrier puppy.
Commentary: China, India Strategic Partners, not Rivals
China and India have had more high level exchange this past year than in nearly 60 years because they know common development can only be achieved through a strategic cooperative partnership.
State Firms Barred from Vietnam Contract Bids
Vietnamese and Chinese ships have been clashing since China set up an oil rig near disputed island in the South China Sea last month. Tensions over the move caused anti-China riots in Vietnam.
From China with Pragmatism
Americans see patronage as corruption, but Chinese recognize that giving money in a red envelope is good manners and important social grooming, and unrelated to graft.
Accel’s Breyer to Partner With Venture Capital Firm in China
James Breyer, the venture capitalist who made a fortune with an early bet on Facebook, is putting some of his winnings to work in partnership with Beijing-based IDG Capital to invest in tech start-ups.
China Escalates Its War on American Tech Firms
The Chinese government, angered by Washington's charge that Beijing engages in cyberspying, is looking for some payback.
Finally, One Analyst Believes China Is Improving
In recent years, an upbeat note on the Chinese economy has been hard to find. Step forward Nomura, which on June 3 raised its GDP forecast for the second quarter from 7.1% to 7.4% and its full year forecast from 7.4% to 7.5%.
China Swaps Gusto for Rigor as It Learns From Africa
Cowed by capricious commodity prices, political instability and a string of lost investments, Chinese financiers aren’t as gutsy as when state-owned giants whipped up business abroad 15 years ago.
American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute
Chinese officials are ramping up political and economic pressure on the United States following indictments against five members of the Chinese Army on charges of economic cyberespionage.
China’s Culture of Compliance Is Crippling the Country
This year, China will very likely overtake the U.S. as the world’s largest economy. It has certainly become wealthy. But it has also become less free.
First Rule of Chinese Tourism: Give Them What They Want
As the global travel industry rolls out the welcome mat for China's surge of outbound tourists, it should consider tipping the scales in their customers' favor.
Meet ‘Crazy Jack,’ China’s E-Commerce Titan
A former employee says Jack Ma sees himself as an artist, not a businessman.
Caixin Media
05.27.14
Threats to Anonymous Sources Shake Chinese Journalism
Courts in the capital are mulling over what's being described as the first legal attack against the use of anonymous sources in news reports published by the Chinese media.
The charges leveled against the Guangzhou-based Southern...
US Wins WTO Luxury Car Ruling Against China
The World Trade Organization found no basis for duties that China imposed on saloons and off-road vehicles between 2011 and 2013 in retaliation for US trade policies.
Special Report: The Power Struggle Behind China's Corruption Crackdown
When Xi Jinping was named President in March last year, the 48-year-old billionaire Liu Han was detained and surrounded by corruption investigators and prison guards.
Books
05.22.14
Age of Ambition
From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy—or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don’t see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes.
China Threatens Security Checks for Tech Firms After U.S. Indictments
China will establish new procedures to assess potential security problems with Internet technology and services used by sectors “related to national security and the public interest.”
Environment
05.21.14
Infographic: China’s Pig Footprint
from chinadialogueMeat invariably means pig in China, with pork accounting for 65% of the meat consumed in the country.
And after...
“The Big Bang Theory” and Our Future with China
The United States has never faced a rival whose ordinary people lead lives that have so much in common with ours in America. (The Soviets did not get Carson.)
China Accuses U.S. of Hypocrisy Amid Charges of Economic Espionage
Unresolved allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on a Chinese telecoms giant Huawei have resurfaced amid growing anger from Chinese officials over accusations that the PLA hacked American databases.
Media
05.20.14
Netizens Complain Chinese Government Was Slow to Respond to Violence in Vietnam
On May 18, Hong Lei, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said China “will suspend some of its plans for bilateral exchanges with Vietnam in response to the deadly violence against Chinese nationals in the country,”...
Conversation
05.19.14
Is This the Best Response to China’s Cyber-Attacks?
On Monday, the United States Attorney General Eric Holder accused China of hacking American industrial giants such as...
Caixin Media
05.19.14
“White Glove” Sisters at Center of Coal Country Graft Scandal
Two sisters with business savvy and important friends in high places are now the standout figures in the mysterious case of a former Shanxi province government official, Jin Daoming, charged with corruption.
Few details of the Jin case...
Department of Justice Indicts Chinese Hackers: What Next?
The US indicted five Chinese military officers for cyberspying, but the Snowden revelations about alleged NSA activities make it hard to build support for diplomatic efforts from the rest of the world.
Viewpoint
05.16.14
Government Steps Up To Labor’s Demands
On April 14, most of the 40,000 workers at the Dongguan Yue Yuen shoe factory—supplier to Nike, Adidas, and other international brands—began what would become a two-week work stoppage. While there are thousands of strikes in China every year, the...
Environment
05.15.14
Anti-Chinese Sentiment on Rise in Myanmar
from chinadialogueThe Shwe pipeline shaves an angry bald strip across the red clay hills and disappears into the morning mist. A sign hanging above an area cordoned off by bamboo fencing warns in English, “Severe punishment on pipeline destruction.”
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The Growing Allure of Designed-in-China Fashions
Guo Pei, a couture designer based in Beijing, says she’s seeing increased demand for custom-made gowns as Chinese performers and socialites have more formal occasions to attend.
Anger Grows in Vietnam Over Dispute With China
Thousands of workers rampaged through an industrial area in southern Vietnam in what reportedly began as protests against China’s stationing of an oil rig in disputed waters off of Vietnam’s coast.
Shoe Maker Yue Yuen Suspends Vietnam Production Amid Protests
Vietnam accounts for about a third of Yue Yuen's global production capacity, which amounted to 313 million pairs of shoes last year.
Chinese Police Charge British Former Head of GSK in China With Bribery
The case is the biggest corruption scandal to hit a foreign company in China since the Rio Tinto affair in 2009, which resulted in four executives, including an Australian, being jailed for between 7-14 years.
Protestors Torch Factories in Southern Vietnam as China Protests Escalate
Properties in the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Parks (VSIP) I & II in Binh Duong were targeted by thousands of protesters demonstrating over China's deployment of an oil rig in disputed waters.
China Inc. Moves Factory Floor to Africa
Faced with rising labor costs at home and negative perceptions about their employment practices in Africa, Chinese companies are setting up new factories on the continent and hiring more Africans.
China May Seek Extradition of Corrupt Officials from U.S.
The specter of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-graft campaign has in recent months ousted officials of all ranks and even banned authorities from purchasing ostensible symbols of corruption.
Media
05.13.14
Why Are There No Credit Scores in China?
Few would dispute that Chinese society suffers from a serious trust problem. After surviving crafty scams and shoddy products for...
State Sector is China’s Secret Sauce
The state sector has provided essential organization, capital and the ability to survive turbulence collectively. That’s the Chinese edge, like it or not.
China Real Estate Falls Back to Earth
One of the world’s longest-running bull markets finally seems to be stalling, with broad consequences for China’s economy and possibly its politics as well.
China’s Coal Dependency Threatens Efforts to Curb Warming
China's coal consumption contributes one-fifth of the world’s total emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, which, if it continues, will make it change “almost impossible."
China to Build Railway Linking East Africa
Leaders agree $3.8bn project to link Kenya's port of Mombasa to neighboring Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.
China May Build an Undersea Train to America
Chinese officials are considering a route that would start in the country's northeast, thread through eastern Siberia and cross the Bering Strait via a 125-mile long underwater tunnel into Alaska.
Media
05.08.14
The Chinese Are Coming! (And That’s OK)
On April 29, the United States Chamber of Commerce, a U.S. lobbying group, announced that Chinese investment in the...
Young Party Members ‘Top Earners’
Survey of China's 'post-80s' generation finds high pay tied to official status inside the Chinese Communist Party.