I’m writing on the heels of two trips to China during which I met with senior policy makers, bank executives and academics, just as the government launched its 12th Five-Year Plan, intended to rebalance the long-term growth model. My meetings deepene
When I woke up this morning and scanned through my usual digest– boots on the ground reports from overseas contacts, market summaries from Asian and European bankers, commentary from friends still in the intelligence community– a couple of things cau
One only has to read the strategic briefings in U.S. AFRICOM documents to realise the true endgame in Libya: the control of valuable resources and the eviction of China from North Africa.
The Dalai Lama has urged restraint in a standoff with security forces at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in China, warning of "catastrophic consequences" if the situation deteriorates.
Wang Jianren, a 56-year-old retiree in this bustling city of 20 million, says that over the years China has benefited tremendously from rapid economic growth. But like so many people here, he complains that inflation is beginning to eat away at those
TIC data is notoriously flawed and always incorrect, with at least half UK purchases being attributed to China post annual revisions it could well turn out that China was the only country actually buying US paper.
Destabilizing China and attempting to overthrow a government of 1.3 billion people most certainly is a grievous act of war. Add to that operations unfolding across Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and South America and you have
The $64 trillion question now, as always, is whether China, whose holdings have been flat for a year will follow in Pimco's footsteps and actually commence selling longer-dated paper. If so, and with QE3 now expected...
The US turned a blind eye to its own terrible human rights situation and seldom mentioned it," China's report said." The war of words hits a new all time record: "The United States has taken human rights as "a political instrument to defame...
...over the last few months, though, is that there is an emerging trend of wealthy foreigners coming to Chile from Asia, specifically mainland China. The two obvious reasons they’re here are copper and lithium, of which Chile has the largest reserve
I have a little secret that I’m going to let you in on, it’s one of the ways that I meet people and get networked while traveling internationally. Over time, I’ve found that, if you want to connect with influential insiders, you have to go where infl
China is relying on Africa, principally Libya, Angola, and Nigeria, for future energy needs. In response to China’s economic engagement with Africa, Washington is engaging the continent militarily with the US African Command (AFRICOM)...
Ai Weiwei, one of China’s most prominent artists and an outspoken critic of the communist regime, was taken from Beijing’s airport by security agents Sunday as he was about to board a flight to Hong Kong. Police later raided his studio.
Things are bad all over. With so much going on in the world, it's time for everybody to pull together and come up with a global solution. The world is inter-dependent after all. It is because we say it is.
China said on Thursday it faced an increasingly "volatile" Asian region where the United States has expanded its strategic footprint, maintaining that better military ties between Beijing and Washington rested on respect for each other's interests.
Asahi Shinbun only recently announced that the Pressure vessels in reactors 1, 2 and 3 may have holes confirming everybody's worst fears of full blown release of radioactive particles in the environment.
Imax will open 75 new theaters in China to meet soaring demand for movie entertainment amongst the country's burgeoning middle class, reports the New York Times.
More than 100 activists, many of them active on Twitter and blogging networks, have been detained, subjected to monitoring and intimidation by the security forces, or have gone missing since late February.
The Middle East is an important source of oil for China. On the weekend, Saudi Arabia’s Aramco announced its latest proposal to supply crude to a refinery in the southwest of China, where Beijing is building an oil pipeline that slices through Myanma
The Tibetan Mastiff, Big Splash, may not bite you, but his price will sure take a hefty bite out of your wallet. That's because Big Splash, or "Hong Dong" in Chinese, was recently sold to a wealthy owner of Chinese coal mines for the tidy sum of 1
U.S. officials believe China's insurance regulator passed on proprietary information about AIG to its Chinese rivals during the American firm's collapse in 2008, according to unpublished diplomatic cables.
The U.S. government bailout of American I
China's purchases of European government bonds should not be met with suspicion [just because we are no longer buying US bonds], Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Monday.
China is clearly trying to position the yuan or renminbi as the alternative global reserve currency. The Chinese likely realise that they will need to surpass the Federal Reserve’s official, but unaudited, gold holding of 8,133.5 tonnes.
Obviously, a reserve currency would be not only extremely useful, but quite critical in achieving the goal of China's conversion to an inwardly focused, middle-class reliant society.
This upward revision came almost exclusively at the expense of the UK, which saw its holdings decline by $269 billion, in other words a nearly dollar for dollar shift between the UK and China.