Is China’s wealth management business a booming profit volcano for investors, or just another smoke-and-mirrors pyramid scheme?
It’s a question dividing the nation’s bankers and banking regulators as investors of all kinds pour cash into...
Beijing says it was the market that decided to bar imported films from domestic cinemas this summer, not film regulators.
Party guidance is the "soul” of China's moves to privitize and promote industries that can spread soft power abroad.
The launch marks a step forward in Beijing's ambitions for a bigger space presence, including ...
After report on Wen Jiabao's "hidden riches," Guangdong and Shanghai party bosses said officials will eventually have to declare assets.
A Paris-based think tank said China's economy will be larger than the combined eurozone economies by year's end and will overtake the US by the end of 2016.
Is China’s economic growth destined to plunge down to 3% to 4% a year, or can it be sustained in the current 7% to 8% range? China Real Time has asked heavyweight experts Michael Pettis of Peking University...
China reclaiming from the FDI leadership had as much to do with the fall off in FDI into the U.S. as it had to do with events in China.
It’s unlikely that many of the 60 Chinese investors who visited Madison in September had heard of the Wisconsin state capital and home of the University of Wisconsin Badgers before agreeing to visit the U.S. Similarly the city of Handan, the...
A wise old cartoon turtle in Kung Fu Panda advises Po, the portly black and white star of the 2004 DreamWorks Animation blockbuster film, not to fret about honing his fighting skills, but rather to focus on the moment and do...
LOS ANGELES—Hollywood and Chinese movie makers and industry hangers-on will gather Tuesday at the third annual Asia Society U.S.-China Film Summit on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.
At a gala dinner Tuesday night,...
The crestfallen former chairman of fast-food restaurant giant Kungfu Catering Management Co. Ltd. is awaiting a verdict after a trial on corporate embezzlement charges apparently instigated by his former business partner’s wife.
If Cai...
Beijing said the report that Wen's family has "controlled ... at least $2.7bn" had "ulterior motives."
Wen Jiabao's son, daughter, younger brother and brother-in-law have become extraordinarily wealthy during his leadership.
Much touted Disney-Marvel film co-production with Beijing-based studio DMG may ring hollow.
Pushing China around like a bulked-up version of 1980s Japan doesn't fit a long-term U.S. objective: drawing China into the club of prosperous, rule-bound and democratic nations.
Official data show that consumption contributed over half of China's growth so far this year, more than investment's contribution.
Concern among Chinese officials, executives and academics is growing that U.S. attidudes toward China won't cool post-Election Day.
Investing like an angel now costs no more than an average duck dinner in Beijing.
The force driving China’s growing ranks of small-scale angel investors are crowdfunding websites, which offer individuals access to business financing pools...
James Fallows' pics from inside a Chinese factory making many famous Western electronic brands.
Although the yuan rose nearly 30 percent since 2005, U.S. politicians are still taking jabs at China's currency regime.
U.S. presidential politics vilifying China obscures how deeply entwined the two countries have become.
Tsinghua University economist Patrick Chovanec thinks China’s actual GDP growth is around four percent.
China's economic relations with U.S. could feature hotly in next Presidential debate.
One couple asks if they can own a BMW on a combined income of $2,100 a month.
On the morning of October 10, a high-profile lawsuit against China Southern, one of China’s “big three” airlines, opened at Chaoyang People’s Court in Beijing. The plaintiffs? Zhao Nan and Chen Lei, a couple from Tianjin, north China, who blame...
Chinese demand for meat has quadrupled over 30 years and the nation now eats a quarter of the world supply.
In the midst of increasingly heated election rhetoric about China, Beijing has released some important economic data as its currency hits record highs. Both ...
Movie mogul Han Sanping soon will receive an Asia Society award even as U.S. investigators' continue to question Hollywood studios' dealings with Han's company.
Markets rose Monday on news of China's Sept. inflation falling to 1.9 percent from 2 percent in Aug.
The 120,000-square foot NBA Center in Tianjin port near Beijing will house basketball courts, a fitness center and a restaurant and be part of a mixed-use development with housing for 150,000.
Romney Republican running mate slams President for delaying report on currency manipulation.
To build the case for a robust response to these opportunities and looming risks, this report analyzes Chinese investment in California in depth, mining a unique database for insights about California’s comparative advantages, the Chinese firms...
Forty-five of China’s 100 biggest fortunes slipped from last year’s FORBES ASIA Richest List.
Literature in translation in the United States has wide but shallow roots, making English language stars out of the likes of Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Haruki Murakami, but leaving most of China’s writers struggling to take hold. Now, veteran...
PM calls for talks to contain economic damage from dispute with Japan's No. 1 trade partner.
China is considering lending even more money to bail out the region’s recessionary economies.
Chinese telecomms firms painted as shady, but evidence to back up allegations is hidden in report's classified sections.
"Kung Fu Panda" creators will ramp up a partnership with Chinese state-run media funds, slowly.
China-related holdings by funds in which Mr. Romney has invested are a reminder of how he inhabits two worlds.
By publishing "The One" as an iPhone app, China's superblogger bypassed the State Administration of Radio Film and Television.
China is the major hub of the international textile industry, exporting US$200 billion worth of textile and apparel products in 2010—accounting for 34 percent of global exports.
It’s provided cheap T-shirts and other clothes to people...
Foxconn Technology Group, the assembler of Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhones, had to stop production for the second time in as many...
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Inc. lashed out Monday at a scathing congressional report, calling allegations that it may be spying on Americans and violating U.S. laws "little more than an...
China’s supply of solar panels has grown faster than soaring global demand, sparking a price war.
First, this was not a political move by the President to position himself as tough on China, as suggested by ...
On the same day last week that President Obama was issuing an order blocking a Chinese company from acquiring several Oregon wind farms, the ...
Each year around this time, the Hurun Report, a Shanghai-based luxury publishing and events group, releases its compiled list of China’s wealthiest people. The report not only satisfies the prurient...
It’s a digital disaster. With a Chinese travel crunch looming, China’s online ticketing system is quickly turning into a boondoggle of historic proportions.
It’s hard to believe, but just twenty years ago China was on the verge of abandoning the market reforms that have since propelled it to its current position as a world power. Conservatives had used the 1989 Tiananmen massacre to reverse the...
Day by day, Chinese workers expect better conditions and greater guarantees that when companies go bust, the employees will not. And, yet, China permits no independent trade unions or free collective bargaining. Complaint and mediation procedures...
A reality-talent TV songfest popular in more than forty countries around the world has become an instant hit in China, underpinning enthusiasm for an experimental business model linked to media sector reform.
The Voice of China’s...
In a vivid display of the powers of incumbency, President Obama on Monday filed a broad new trade...
But even in the cases where the outsourcing cost savings were significant, the idea that American wages were way out of line with Chinese wages and the only future for American workers was grinding wages lower and lower to compete with China has...
The United States on Monday filed a broad trade case against China...
Another month of disappointing China trade data: on Monday, overall Chinese exports increased just 2.7 per cent in...
