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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...
Christine Lagarde Press Briefing

IMF's Lagarde on Asian Dream

Asia needs to rejuvenate its development strategy to fulfil the Asian dream of lasting growth and shared prosperity, according to IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Read more...
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China's Liu Xiaobo

How powerful is China really when it fears the influence of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize–winning poet and essayist Liu Xiaobo to such a point that he is put in jail? Read more...
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Change of direction at Asian Development Bank?

Could the Asian Development Bank be heading in a new direction under the prospective new leadership of Takehiko Nakao? Read more...
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China's BO Xilai affair

The BO Xilai affair is China's biggest scandal since Tiananmen Square. But our Paris-based China watcher, Frederic Langer, argues that the West cannot wash its hands of BO's judiciary troubles. Read more...
Governor Neil Abercrombie this morning at the US-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum & Signing Ceremony in Los Angeles, CA.

From China bashing to China embrace

With electioneering "China bashing" now on the back-burner, the US/China economic relationship will become an increasingly important driver of US economic growth. Read more...

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China's international students

China and other Asian countries lead the world in sending their youth overseas to study. But too many do not return home. Some democracy and freedom would help China here. Read more...
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Doing business with China without selling our soul

We should be doing business with China without selling our soul, argues Michael Bloomfield from Harmony Foundation of Canada. Read more...
Dr. Helen Boylan Breaks Down Fracking

Pros and cons of shale gas for China

Shale gas in China could become a game changer. Asit Biswas, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and Julian Kirchherr explore the pros and cons. Read more...
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From Outsourcing to Insourcing

As some US companies start insourcing or onshoring production back home, could Asia lose one of its motors of growth? Read more...
US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue Protest

US-China Strategic Distrust

US Senate confirmation hearings for President Obama's foreign policy and security team will focus on Middle East issues, not on the "main game" of China, unfortunately. Read more...
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China's disappearing cheap labor

For the past three decades, the Chinese economy has relied on a vast supply of cheap labor, moving from the rural country to the industralizing cities. All the signs point to this is coming to an end Read more...
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Will China run out of water by 2030?

China needs a coordinated policy approach to manage water, energy and economic development, according to Asit Biswas, founder of Third World Centre for Water Management, and Julian Kirchherr. Read more...
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China's investment in the West

Foreign direct investment coming from China is making waves in countries like Australia, Canada and the United States. Is it really a problem? Read more...
Ghost of the Old Puppet Master Mao: march the streets for three uninhabited islands (1)

Farewell to Chinese Triumphalism!

When financial crisis struck the US in 2008, there was no-one more triumphalist than a Chinese Communist Party official. Today, the tide is turning, as it invariably does. Read more...
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang and World Bank Chief Economist Justin Yifu Lin

New structural economics and development

China's Justin Yifu Lin is development economics' leading contemporary thinker. His “new structural economics” provides an excellent framework for rethinking economic development. Read more...
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China's productivity deficit

Even after more than three decades of stellar growth, China's productivity is only 13 per cent that of the US. Why? And how can China make up the lost ground? Read more...
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BRICS, still an acronym, not yet a reality

Emanuele Schibotto provides us with an insightful and critical perspective on the concept of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). Read more...