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Ai Weiwei: Colored Vases

Ai Weiwei -- According to what?

Ai Weiwei is said to be the most important contemporary artist in the world today. But is he really an artist? Or is he more an activist, and a self-promoting media manipulator? Read more...
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Living, working and doing business in China

China can be an awfully difficult country in which to do business, or even just visit. But Leo Lacey's "Living, Working & Doing Business in China" is the perfect reference to prepare you. Read more...
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Saving America and China

Frank Li, a Chinese American from Chicago, has written a very important book, entitled "Saving America, Chinese Style". It is a stimulating and fascinating read. Read more...
Sign Of The Times II

Detroit, China, America and the Asian Century

Detroit has filed for bankruptcy. Chinese investors are swooping in on Motown. Is this a symbol of the great power transition of the Asian Century? Read more...
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China's state capitalism

With Europe now in recession, and the US still muddling through, many observers are now preaching the merits of "state capitalism" as against liberal capitalism. Read more...
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Social media in China

Yiran Liu, currently studying at Tokyo's Sophia University, has an interesting article to share with us on the social media in China. Read more...
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China's financial market challenges

China's financial markets are emitting mixed messages. Its banks are the biggest in the world. Its financial system is increasingly fragile. What is really going on? Read more...
Memories of Water

Water, environment and development

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe and Asit K. Biswas have an important article to share with us on water, environment and development. Read more...
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Chinese art at Toronto's Shangri-La Hotel

Toronto's Shangri-La Hotel has the best collection of Chinese art in the city. You must go and savor the experience, as I have done. Read more...
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Ai Weiwei sculptures in Toronto

The exhibition of Ai Weiwei's sculptures in Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square is the highlight of the city's summer cultural season. Read more...
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China/US relationship now

Both Xi Jinping and Barack Obama would like a peaceful relationship so they can concentrate on dealing with problems at home. How will they manage? Read more...
China's inward and outward investment policies

China's inward and outward investment policies

Ken Davies, President of Growing Capacity, Inc, has kindly shared with us his update on China's investment policies. Read more...
How Not to Do Business in China

How Not to Do Business in China

Michael Bloomfield, Founder and Executive Director of the Harmony Foundation of Canada, has shared with us his views on how not to do business with China. It is essential reading! Read more...
Prelude to a water and economic crisis?

Prelude to a water and economic crisis?

Steady deterioration of water bodies is one of the most pressing problems facing the world today, especially in Asia, argue Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas. Read more...
Homage to the Unknown Rebel - 4 June, 1989 - Tiananmen Square Massacre

China's democratic future??

Minxin Pei recently wrote an interesting piece speculating on how China could become a democracy. But will China's future really be democratic? Could China even break up, like the former USSR? Read more...
Water treatment and paper chemicals plant in Nanjing, China

Pros and cons of PPPs in water sector

China should be able to structure new
generation of PPPs in the water sector which would be more successful than the existing ones, argue Zhang Yingxin Louisa and Asit Biswas. Read more...
US Wins - Players Shake Hands

America's Chinese Dream

The US economy is wobbling slowly forward. Europe is just plain wobbling. And China has moved onto a slower growth path.

But a Chinese dream awaits America, if it wants it. Read more...
Governor Neil Abercrombie this morning at the US-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum & Signing Ceremony in Los Angeles, CA.

What Americans Should Know about the US-China Commercial Relationship

Ken Davies has shared with us his assessment of the US-China Business Council's 2013 report on China and the U.S. Economy. Read more...
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China's foreign policy

The enigmatic nature of China's foreign policy is evident as the US pushes China to tame North Korea. An excellent SIPR paper by Linda Jakobson and Dean Knox can help us understand the enigmas. Read more...
The Global Economic Outlook: Angel Gurría, Yi Gang

2013 OECD China Economic Survey

Our friend Ken Davies, President of Growing Capacity, Inc., has kindly shared with us his excellent review of the OECD's 2013 China Economic Survey. Read more...