In Latest Escalation, Australia May Join US, Send Warships To China Islands
• Zero HedgeEarlier this week, the USS Lassen managed to sail by China's man-made islands in the Spratlys without getting shot at or surrounded.
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Earlier this week, the USS Lassen managed to sail by China's man-made islands in the Spratlys without getting shot at or surrounded.
China abandoned the one-child policy that has shaped society since the late-1970s as the ruling Communist Party tries to boost a shrinking workforce and manage the country's transition to an era of slower economic growth.
The US should stay out of the South China Sea dispute
Yesterday a US Naval destroyer sailed within 12 miles of an island in the South China Sea newly built and claimed by China. The Chinese claimed a 12 mile exclusion zone and have complained over the US "violation." Is the US military "keeping the sea
A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed close to one of China's man-made islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday, drawing an angry rebuke from Beijing, which said it had tracked and warned the ship and called in the U.S. ambassador to protest.
Beijing mouthpiece says vessels should be sent out to confront US destroyers
It appears this morning's dismal Durable Goods data was the last straw on the camel's back of the 'bad news is goods news' meme.
Slams Obama Decision To "Threaten Peace" With Warship Challenge
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Slams Obama Decision To "Threaten Peace" With Warship Challenge
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A Chinese investment firm is shelling out $1.3 billion to buy giant oil fields in Texas, reflecting growing interest from China in U.S. energy resources.
At a time when the US and China are practically at arms over the artificial islands in the South China Seas, with the US sending warships on location to patrol ...
Since China devalued the Yuan and surprised the world's carry traders (and central planners) by stirring up FX volatility, the demand for 'paper' gold has begun converging to the demand for physical precious metals.
The US and China reached a historic agreement last month to stop hacking into each other's systems to steal economic secrets. But according to the American security company Crowdstrike, this hasn't stopped hackers with ties to the Chinese governm
The rebound in Chinese equities spurred by the government's efforts to boost growth will probably fade as the measures underscore fundamental weakness in the world's second-largest economy, according to Barclays Plc, Blackfriars Asset Management
Fresh on the heels of an ECB announcement of more QE and the further lowering of the excess reserve rate already at -0.2%, China Nervously Joins Global Easing Campaign.
Together with Greece briefly soaring to prominence over the summer (only to fade into perpetual obscurity in its new role as Germany's certified Mediterranean colony), the biggest event of this past summer -
Tesla's Elon Musk is currently in China, and yesterday from a presentation at Tsinghua University the CEO said that talks with Chinese officials on local production had been productive.
China stepped up monetary easing with its sixth interest-rate cut in a year to combat deflationary pressures and a slowing economy, moving ahead of anticipated fresh stimulus by central banks from Europe to Japan and possible tightening in the U.S.
The numbers are in. The markets don't like them and the Street doesn't believe them.
In writing about China yesterday, we emphasized how sooner or later the economy was going to unravel further, following on the heels of its disastrous market drop - and that China's difficulties were a direct result of the Western, central bank mod
In the past few months, Citi's chief economist Willem "Gold is a 6000 year old bubble" Buiter, has been making increasingly more hyperbolic and grandose predictions about the future, which doesn't make them wrong.
The Chinese are now entering a new phase of "red capitalism." The recent Chinese stock market crash that wiped out some 30 percent of the market's value may well be a prelude to something worse. Nothing is guaranteed.
CHINA'S LONG MARCH 3B ROCKET LAUNCHES APSTAR-9 SATELLITE INTO ORBIT
A Chinese bank will soon join the London Bullion Market Associations (LBMA) silver price-setting process.
InterContinental revpar jumps worldwide except greater China, Whitbread stock brews up and the renminbi rises
Does China selling off US Treasuries mean no interest rate hike in the foreseeable future? Is the dollar in decline?
For all the dire warnings over China's retreat from U.S. government debt, there's one simple fact that is being overlooked: American demand is as robust as ever.
China's push to build military outposts on island specks in the South China Sea is one of Asia's worst-kept secrets.