Iron Ore Plunges 10pc Amid Extended China Market Route
on July 8, 2015
Iron ore retreated to the lowest level in at least six years as a rout in China's stock markets threatened to hurt demand just as the biggest producers plan to raise output.
China’s Confucius Institutes and the Soft War
on July 8, 2015
The first Confucius Institute opened its door in November 2004 in Seoul, South Korea. Hanban, or the Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language.
'The Autobots' Hits Theaters, and Many Chinese Say They've Seen It Before
on July 8, 2015
Many expressed outrage over the newest animated children’s movie, “The Autobots,” which bears an uncanny resemblance to Disney's "Cars.”
China Stock Slump Spreads as Alibaba to JD.com Whipsaw Investors
on July 8, 2015
U.S.-traded Chinese stocks tumbled at least four years before rebounding in late trading as the rout that’s wiped $3.2 trillion from the value of mainland equities spreads.
Why is China's Stock Market Crashing?
on July 8, 2015
The volatility of the stock markets has become a political issue but political intervention has not been effective. It is likely that Chinese leaders will find ways to boost the confidence in the Chinese stock markets which could backfire.
Taiwan’s ‘Wall-Hugging’ Presidential Candidate Takes New York
on July 7, 2015
Outside Penn Station in New York City on June 5 there was growing anticipation as a crowd waited for Tsai Ing-wen to arrive. The excitement seemed a little out of place: Tsai, a former law professor educated at Cornell University and the London School of Economics, has what she herself calls a “wall-hugging” personality—the kind that leaves a person unnoticed in a room, much less in the rambunctious world of Taiwanese politics.
China Offers Private Companies Rights to Explore Six Oil-and-Gas Blocks
on July 7, 2015
China’s government is making a small step toward opening the nation’s energy resources to private investment.
China and Russia: The World's New Superpower Axis?
on July 7, 2015
Russia and China are the ever-presents, a powerful pairing whose interests coincide more often than not.
Meeting China Halfway
on July 7, 2015
Though a U.S.–China conflict is far from inevitable, major tensions are building in the Asia-Pacific region. These strains are the result of historical enmity, cultural divergence, and deep ideological estrangement, not to mention apprehensions fueled by geopolitical competition and the closely related "security dilemma." Despite worrying signs of intensifying rivalry between Washington and Beijing, few observers have provided concrete paradigms to lead this troubled relationship away from disaster. Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry is dramatically different from any other book about U.S.-China relations. Lyle J. Goldstein's explicit focus in almost every chapter is on laying bare both U.S. and Chinese perceptions of where their interests clash and proposing new paths to ease bilateral tensions through compromise. Each chapter contains a “cooperation spiral”―the opposite of an escalation spiral―to illustrate the policy proposals. Goldstein not only parses findings from the latest American scholarship but also breaks new ground by analyzing hundreds of Chinese-language sources, including military publications, never before evaluated by Western experts. Goldstein makes one hundred policy proposals over the course of this book, not because these are the only solutions to arresting the alarming course toward conflict, but rather to inaugurate a genuine debate regarding cooperative policy solutions to the most vexing problems in U.S.-China relations. ―Georgetown University Press
Book Review:
Doug Bandow, Cato Institute (June 24, 2015)
Stephen Harner, Forbes Magazine (June 4, 2015)
Peter Harris, The National Interest (May 27, 2015)
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As China’s Market Tanks, What Becomes of the Companies Hoping to List?
on July 7, 2015
As the market soared in China, nearly 20 Chinese companies whose shares trade in New York got bids to go private in management buyouts.