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01.13.13China Development Bank Cancels Loans for Ping An Deal
The Hong Kong branch of China Development Bank (CDB) has been ordered by its Beijing headquarters to cancel loans that would have been used to finance an acquisition involving the nation’s second-largest insurer, a bank source said.The source said...
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01.11.13Apple CEO: China Will Be Biggest Market
Associated Press
Apple has said sales in China more than doubled in 2010 and 2011 though growth has slowed in the past year.
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01.11.13China Firm Buys Naming Rights to Landmark Hollywood Theater
Los Angeles Times
Chinese TV maker TCL paid $5 million to rename Grauman's Chinese Theatre
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01.11.13(Editorial) Why Southern Weekly Said “No”
China Media Project
The road to freedom of expression as guaranteed in Article 35 of China’s Constitution will be a long one.
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01.11.13China Said to Crack Down on Censorship Protests
New York Times
People across China have been detained or questioned for supporting protesting Southern Weekend journalists.
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01.10.13A Retailer Discovers China’s New ‘It‘ Girl: Grandpa
Wall Street Journal
Retired Farmer Becomes Fashion Sensation; He's 5-8, Thin and Looks Great in Crimson
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01.10.13Private Equity in China: Which Way Out?
Deal Book
Three-quarters of private equity deals struck between 2001-12-worth $230 billion-have yet to pay off, a new report shows.
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01.08.13Inside the Southern Weekly Incident
China Media Project
A Hong Kong University media scholar's review of the strife that led to a strike at one of China's most influential newspapers.
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01.08.13Censorship Protest a Test for Reform-minded China
CNN
For two days, journalists at the Southern Weekly offices and hundreds of their supporters called for free speech.
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01.07.13Chemical Spill Pollutes Shanxi Politics
Wall Street Journal
After a chemical spill polluted north China waterways–and delays in reporting it raised the specter of an earlier cover-up–the problem is seeping into the political system.
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01.07.13Southern Weekend Editorial Staff Goes on Strike (Updated)
China Digital Times
An internal standoff has escalated into a full-blown crisis at Southern Weekly, where Guangdong's propaganda chief meddled in the publication's "New Year's Greeting."
Media
01.07.13
“Help Me Pay This Bill”: A Short But Incisive Send-Up of Chinese Corruption
It is a social media classic, a send-up of the corruption and profligacy that so often enrage Web users in China. A very short story variously titled “I Did Not Eat For Free” and “Help Me Pay This Bill” has been making the rounds for months on Sina...
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01.07.13Supporters Back Strike and Newspaper in China
New York Times
Hundreds gathered outside the headquarters of a newspaper office in southern China to support journalists who had declared a strike to protest censorship by officials.
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01.04.13Chinese Censors Lift the Veil on Bloggers
Bloomberg
Can China’s raucous, muckraking Internet culture survive if microbloggers are forced to disclose their identities.
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01.04.13Google Concedes Defeat in Chinese Censorship Battle
Guardian
U.S. company quietly drops warning message that Chinese users saw when searching for politically sensitive phrases
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01.04.13Why Are Entrepreneurs So Uneasy?
I’m often asked whether it’s more difficult for a Chinese company to survive now than it was in the 1980s, when I started my business. The two eras are indeed different. Many entrepreneurs with whom I shared the stage at awards ceremonies have since...
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01.03.13China Insists Reporter Was Not Forced to Leave
Voice of America
China is still considering the visa application of a New York Times journalist who the paper says was forced to leave.
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01.02.13Why 'Breaking Bad' Should be Set in China
Motherboard
Records of large drug busts involving meth in recent years--an increasingly common occurrence--tend to show a trail that leads back to China.
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12.31.12Times Reporter in China is Forced to Leave over Visa Issue
New York Times
A correspondent who applied for press accreditation in September left because authorities did not act by Dec. 31.
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12.31.12China Expels Journalist after Wen Revelations
Sydney Morning Herald
An New York Times reporter was expelled from China in apparent retaliation for a report about the Chinese Premier's wealth.
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12.28.12Chinese Taste for Fish Rankles
China Digital Times
A Wall Street Journal report on the seizure of Chinese fishing boats off Argentina highlights China’s growing appetite for seafood and its geopolitical effects.
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12.27.12China's Giant New Warplane Will Look Awfully Familiar to the U.S. Air Force
Wired
China's military has released photos of a prototype heavy transport warplane resembling the U.S. Air Force’s workhorse C-17.
Media
12.24.12
The Most Popular Chinese Web Searches of 2012
What did China search for in 2012? It wasn’t the hotly disputed Diaoyu Islands or the widely-watched London Olympics.On Baidu.com, China’s homegrown search engine commanding about eighty-three percent of the Chinese search market, the most popular...
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12.24.12U.S.-China Auditing Spat Turns Ugly
The latest twist in a long-running dispute between Beijing and Washington securities regulators over Chinese audits is threatening to boot Chinese companies from America stock exchanges.The plot thickened on December 3, when the U.S. Securities and...
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12.24.12China Assails U.S. Over Alliance with Japan and Possible F-16 Sales to Taiwan
New York Times
State-run news media attacked the passage of a new U.S. military spending bill that is awaiting President Obama’s signature.
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12.24.12Yiwu's Purveyors of Christmas Tat Give China a Dose of Ho-Ho-Ho
Times & Sunday Times
China’s Christmas lights used to be only in Shanghai and Beijing, but now brisk sales are going to small provincial city shops.
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12.21.12Food For Thought
Economist
Food companies play an ambivalent part in the fight against flab. China's packaged food sales are 3-4 times their 2002 level.
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12.19.12Focus Media Makes Deal in Biggest China Leveraged Buyout
Bloomberg
Focus joins a growing number of Chinese stocks withdrawing from US exchanges after corporate governance concerns depressed their valuations.
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12.19.12Chinese Directors Call for Censorshp Reform
Hollywood Reporter
Chinese filmmakers are calling for a system of classifying films according to their suitability for audiences of different ages.
Infographics
12.19.12
A Comparison of China’s and America’s Richest People
CNPolitics, a Chinese-language news website, recently released this infographic examining the differences between China and America’s wealthiest individuals as reported by Forbes Magazine. As the site notes, China’s relatively recent economic rise...
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12.17.12Who Was Monica Liang?
Indianapolis Star
A Chicago lawyer who has lured millions in Chinese investment said he was impressed by Liang's ability to build relationships.
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12.16.12Mobile Phones Souring Africa’s Image of China
Every day, about a dozen mobile phone wholesalers field orders and manufacturer offers from offices inside a nondescript, five-story building on Luthuli Avenue in downtown Nairobi.The building doesn’t look like a hub for global commerce, nor does it...
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12.13.12Don’t Underestimate China’s Luxury Market
Harvard Business Review
China’s luxury market — and the global phenomenon of “trading up”— are well known. Yet when China's consumer markets recently experienced short terms blips, several doubters promptly questioned the pace of their long term growth.
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12.10.12China Trade Slowdown Shows Xi Must Fuel Consumption
Bloomberg
The new Communist leaders must reduce China’s reliance on exports to sustain expansion as the country faces a wealth gap that runs a risk of fomenting social unrest.
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12.10.12Signals in China of a More Open Economy
New York Times
Xi Jinping, the new Communist Party head, visited Shenzhen in south China, a symbol of the embrace of a state-led capitalism.
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12.07.12Who Pays When a Wealth Product Fails?
A crowd of angry investors packed a Shanghai branch of Huaxia Bank on December 3 after they heard that the money wasn’t there for the first of four repayments for a 119 million-yuan wealth management plan. They demanded their money back from Huaxia...
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12.06.12China GDP: If Not 10%, Then What
Financial Times
Standard Chartered economist says China's GDP is likely to grow 7% over the next five years without big interim reforms.
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12.06.12Mongolia Finds China Can Be Too Close for Comfort
Associated Press
In a global rush to get rich off China, Mongolia works to ensure that Chinese investment doesn't become Chinese dominance.
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12.04.12From Bubble to Muddling Through
Deal Book
Two measures of manufacturing activity, the official Purchasing Managers Index and the HSBC Purchasing Managers Index, both rose above 50, which indicates expansion, for the first time in months. All is not rosy though, as this roundup of...
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12.04.12S.E.C. Probe Puts China Listings in Doubt
Wall Street Journal
The watchdog's look at Chinese affiliates of five U.S. major accounting firms deals a blow to China firms eyeing U.S. captial.
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12.03.12S.E.C. Charges the Chinese Affiliates of 5 Big Accounting Firms
New York Times
The U.S. financial watchdog says the firms failed to produce work papers from their audits of several China-based companies that are under S.E.C. investigation.
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12.03.12Soft Power: China's Wanda Eyes U.S. Hotel, Movie Deals
Reuters
Wanda, the world's No 1 movie theater owner, is planning a $10 billion spending spree to make Hollywood film co-productions and buy and build hotels in U.S. cities.
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12.03.12China Overtaking U.S. as Global Trader
Associated Press
In just five years, China has surpassed the U.S. as a trading partner for much of the world. The first story in new Associated Press series on "China's Reach."
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12.02.12Mr. China Comes to America
Atlantic
Near the end of this year’s second presidential debate, Candy Crowley of CNN pointed out that iPads, iPhones, and other globally sought-after Apple products are all made in China. What would it take, she asked both Mitt Romney and Barack...
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12.01.12French Firms Must Fight China for Stake in Africa -- Moscovici
Reuters
Finance Minister says France must go on the offensive and fight the growing influence of China for a stake in Africa's markets.
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11.29.12China Will Top U.S. as Biggest Film Market in the World by 2020: Study
Hollywood Reporter
Box office haul in China, which now stands as the second-largest film market in the world after Japan, will surpass that in the U.S. by 2020, according to Ernst & Young.
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11.29.12Is Capital Flight Taking Place in China?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Some analysts argue that China's tremendous capital outflow implies many people are losing confidence in China’s economy.
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11.29.12China at Center of Global Illegal Timber Trade, NGO says
Reuters
China's $4 billion annual timber appetite is driving illegal trade and stripping African and Asian forests and fuelling conflict, the Environmental Investigation Agency says.
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11.28.12State Meddling Stifles China's Film Industry
New York Times
The release of Lu Chuan's latest film was delayed until after the recent leadership transition. The film depicts the bloody machinations of the first Han emperor's wife.
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11.26.12China's Ping An Eyes Legal Action after NYT Report on Leader's Family Wealth
Reuters
Chinese Insurance giant said recent media coverage contained "serious inaccuracies, facts being distorted and taken out of context."
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11.20.12China WIll Build the Tallest Building in the World in Just 90 Days
Gizmodo
Sky City and its 2,749 feet distributed over 220 floors will grow in just 90 days in Changsha city, at the rate of five floors per day.
Environment
11.15.12
China’s Low-Carbon Zones Lack Motivation, Guidance, and Ideas
from chinadialogue
None of China’s so-called low-carbon industrial zones currently live up to the name. That’s the conclusion to draw from the work of the U.S. Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), which this year released a guide for the development of green...
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11.14.12Opinion: Don't Expect Radical Reforms in China
Financial Times
If Li Keqiang walks on stage second it will suggest the premier post has been upgraded to a position of greater political clout.
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11.12.12China's Loans Unexpectedly Fall as Money Supply Misses Forecast
Bloomberg
Central Bank governor warns China is still deal with the effects of five years of financial crisis overseas.
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11.12.12
Weighing Risks Amid a Wealth Management Boom
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 bank-...
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11.11.12China Film Regulator: Don't Blame us for Hollywood Hiccups
Wall Street Journal
Beijing says it was the market that decided to bar imported films from domestic cinemas this summer, not film regulators.
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11.11.12China, at Party Congress, Touts its Cultural Advances
New York Times
Party guidance is the "soul” of China's moves to privitize and promote industries that can spread soft power abroad.
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11.10.12China to Launch New Manned Spaceship in 2013-Xinhua
Reuters
The launch marks a step forward in Beijing's ambitions for a bigger space presence, including construction of a space station by 2020.
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11.09.12Two Rising China Leaders Say Open to Wealth Declarations
Reuters
After report on Wen Jiabao's "hidden riches," Guangdong and Shanghai party bosses said officials will eventually have to declare assets.
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11.09.12China's Economy to Overtake U.S. Economy in Four Years, Says OECD
Guardian
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.