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A couple of days ago, Short-sell Guru Jim Chanos called China “Dubai Times 1000” and predicted a crash in China. Another Jim, Jim Rogers disagreed and called Jim Chanos did not know what he was talking about. Who is right?
With US industries moving to China for cheap labor and no environmental laws it is clear China and ruthless industrialists have targeted the US again. This time they plan to sell cars made in China further crippling the western industries. Knowing wh
Chinese local governments in cahoots with developers have become infamous for forcibly seeking to evict residents from their homes with little compensation and often without their consent. The holdouts are known as "nail households," since their ho
Google is threatening to pull out of China after discovering attacks seeking e-mails from human rights activists and its source code, saying that the bargain it struck with China to censor search results in return for a license to operate in China wa
China's most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was jailed on Friday for 11 years for campaigning for political freedoms, with the stiff sentence on a subversion charge swiftly condemned by rights groups and Washington.
China Daily’s Top Ten 2009 Oddest Stories--plus a few “odd” and quite funny 2009 stories from a Chinese blog.
The Chinese government set the trial date for Liu Xiaobo for tomorrow, a dissident who has been in detention for a year for writing Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political reform, human rights and an end to one-party rule.
MISH: Problems in China continue to mount. Money supply is growing rampantly out of control, property prices are in a bubble, exports are weak, commodity speculation is pervasive, and GDP growth is more of a mirage than real.
It is getting harder for governments to buy U.S. Treasuries because the United States' shrinking current-account gap is reducing supply of dollars overseas, a Chinese central bank official said. Chinese officials generally are very careful about
Shanghai authorities are calling it a “chemical experiment gone wrong”. Others might call it a morality tale of what happens when a billionaire tries to bilk people out of money.
"What could happen in the US that would shift our relationship with China?" With only the slightest of pauses, his answer was "a long and protracted recession in the US". The exchange was certainly interesting that particular moment, when the idea
In the Dickensian depths of the Dunia Metal Works here, all is cacophony: the bam bam bam of grease-drenched punches; the rhythmic clank of unspooling steel wire; the storm and stress of glinting, freshly minted nails cascading onto a broad metal tab
Chinese authorities reported that two officials involved in the contaminated milk scandal of September 2008 were also executed.
It’s the Battle of the New Technology Bras: Victoria Secret’s Miraculous Push-up Versus China’s God’s Hands “She’s Mine” Pushbutton Bra.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Foreign companies may be able to sell bonds in China within a year as the government expands its domestic capital markets, according to China International Capital Corp., the No. 2 underwriter of yuan debt this year.
A veteran Chinese human rights campaigner who challenged the central government over the faulty construction of school buildings that collapsed during last year's Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Monday to three years in prison, on a charge of posses
The meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jin-tao in Beijing was an opportunity to signal the beginning a new world order led by China and the U.S. During his four-day visit, Obama stressed that Beijing was a "powerful
The newspapers are a-buzz with stories of Obama’s trip to China. The Financial Times tells us what “he should have said.” According to the FT, the American president should have told the Chinese that he wasn’t going to put the US into depression just
China is sharply stepping up espionage against the USA as the rising Asian power grows more sophisticated in cyber warfare and spy recruitment. "China is changing the way that espionage is being done," said the chair of the US-China Economic and Secu
China has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of US President Barack Obama's much-anticipated first visit to the country, their relatives and close contacts told AFP Saturday. Obama arrives in Shanghai on Sunday and moves onto Beijin
Oh man, I love this - Ed.
Shu Chun Teng traveled halfway around the world on a scholarship to study mycology at Cornell University in 1923. He left five years later with a knowledge of fungi unequaled in China, then spent the next decade traveling on horseback gathering up mo
A U.S. trade panel on Friday approved two new investigations into charges of unfair trade practices by China, but rejected another one week ahead of President Barack Obama's trip to Asia. The U.S. International Trade Commission voted 6-0 to back t
There’s a battle royal brewing between two China government agencies over who controls the popular War of Worldcraft online game. On Monday, one agency ordered the game suspended, leaving one million Chinese War of Warcraft players out in the cold.
As the dollar continues to weaken, concerns are mounting in much of Asia over another descending currency: the Chinese yuan.For more than a year, China has kept the yuan largely unchanged against the dollar. So, like the dollar, the yuan has been fal
The dam is just one of 19 proposed dams on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, upstream from the massive Three Gorges project near Yichang—and one of nearly 200 proposed dams on the Yangtze and its tributaries. China is building hydropower at a record
The U.S. military needs better dialog with China to avoid "mistakes and miscalculations" given an unprecedented military expansion stoking uncertainty in the region, top U.S. defense officials said. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, speaking days befor
China's economy expanded more than 7% in the first 9 months of the year and will certainly surpass the 2009 growth target of 8%. China is due to release official 3rd quarter economic data. "Achieving a growth rate of 8% for the year is basically no p
Americans should be hoping that the Chinese will be kinder to us than we were to the Brits after the second world war. Readers of a certain age will remember, what creditor Uncle Sam did to debtor John Bull when Britain sent John Maynard Keynes to Wa
China's world tour of oil acquisition is coming soon to a region near you! CNOOC is looking to purchase a stake in a project in the Gulf of Mexico.
