News Mainland China's Top Investment Bank Say China Will Crash If Greece Exits The Eurozone
05-24-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Also Sprach
Everyone has their own opinion on what will happen to the Chinese economy if Europe blows up. That ranges from a totally delusional “nothing happen” to, well…
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News EU appeals to China to join global emissions talks
05-23-2012
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http://www.businessweek.com, By JOE McDONALD
A European envoy held out a possible compromise in a dispute with China over emissions charges on airlines.
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News Will China Make the Yuan a Gold-Backed Currency?
05-22-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca,
If China Backs Its Currency with Gold, It Could Have Profound Effects for Investors … and Consumers
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News China Is Drowning In Excess Commodities And Canceling Orders Left And Right
05-21-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Zarathustra W
The evidence of a China slowdown which is somewhat worse (perhaps much worse) than what the market was expecting continues to pile up.
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News Exclusive: US lets China bypass Wall Street for Treasury Orders
05-21-2012
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Reuters
China can now bypass Wall Street when buying US government debt and go straight to the US Treasury, in what is the Treasury's first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government, according to documents viewed by Reuters.
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News Chinese Real Estate Market Consolidating
05-21-2012
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arclein
At the time I first saw this dynamic in the data, when the Q1 numbers came out, I figured it would take several months to begin playing out. But the April numbers suggest it is already happening.
Chovanec notes if real estate investment drops by 1
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News Surprise! China’s Stealth Jets Are 2 Years Ahead of Schedule
05-18-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Spencer Ackerman
Last year, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates was greeted in Beijing by China’s experimental stealth jet buzzing over his head. Gates didn’t sweat it: He proclaimed that the J-20 wouldn’t be ready until at least 2020. Oops.
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News It Looks A Lot Like China's Security Head Is About To Be Ousted
05-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
Big night for Chinese news.
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News Real Estate Crash In China: Foreign Funding Down 80%, Land Sales Down 57%, Starts Down 27%
05-17-2012
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businessinsider.com, Mike "Mish" Shedloc
Inquiring minds are reading an excellent report China Real Estate Unravels by Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing, China.
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News China may raise investment quota for foreigners-paper
05-14-2012
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Reuters
China may increase the maximum amount that a foreign financial institution can invest in the country's capital markets. Quotas are individually capped at $1 billion under the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor scheme, the main channel for forei
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News High Speed Rail in China Rolls Again
05-14-2012
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arclein
But contrary to these concerns, China has continued to export a wide range of equipment including electric multiple units, urban rail vehicles, steam locomotives, large road maintenance equipment to many countries such as Russia, Australia, Brazil, I
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News China: Two hundred Foxconn workers threaten suicide
05-14-2012
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http://wsws.org, By Ben McGrath
Two months after the release of a report by the US-based Fair Labor Association (FLA) into working conditions at Foxconn plants in China, 200 company employees threatened suicide at its Wuhan facility.
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News Why Is The Obama Administration Allowing The Chinese Government To Buy Up U.S. Oil And Gas Deposits?
05-14-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael Synder
If we are trying to become independent of foreign oil, then why is the Obama administration allowing the Chinese government to buy up U.S. oil and gas deposits worth billions of dollars?
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News US plans 10-month warship deployment to Singapore
05-09-2012
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Reuters
The first of a new class of U.S. coastal warships will be sent to Singapore next spring for a roughly 10-month deployment, the Navy said on Wednesday, spotlighting a move that may stir China's fears of U.S. involvement in South China Sea disputes.
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News China Expels Al Jazeera Channel
05-07-2012
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New York Times
Al Jazeera, the satellite broadcasting network, was forced by the Chinese authorities to close its China news operations of its English-language channel, the first such action in almost 14 years and the strongest sign yet of fraying relations between
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News Beijing Leaders Considering End of Communist Rule
05-07-2012
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arclein
People from all walks of life, political parties, and social organizations should send representatives to form a preparatory committee for a new constitution. They will draft a new constitution that protects the rights of citizens to freely form ass
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News Chinese Dam Building Boom
05-05-2012
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arclein
Yet, China has stepped up its reengineering of river flows in two ways: by portentously shifting its focus from internal rivers to international rivers; and by graduating from building large dams to building megadams.
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News Chinese activist pressured to leave US embassy, says friend
05-02-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
In an exclusive interview, a trusted friend of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng told the Monitor to protect his family, the blind legal activist agreed to leave the safety of the US embassy and stay in China.
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News China Convicts Spy Blogger, Lets Others Keep Leaking
05-02-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Axe
Three years ago a physically disabled Chinese man unwittingly broke the law when he shot video of a military airbase in eastern China and uploaded the footage to his website.
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News Sec. Clinton tosses Chinese dissident to the wolves before talks
05-02-2012
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Reuters
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng left the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday "of his own volition" after six days, the Foreign Ministry said, and a senior U.S. official said he planned to stay put in China.
China's Foreign Ministry denounced th
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News Brewing a Conflict with China
04-30-2012
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Paul Craig Roberts, LewRockwell.com
This is all about is provoking a long-term cold war conflict with China that will keep
profits and power flowing into Washington’s military-security complex. Large profits flow to armaments companies. A portion of the profits reflow into campaign co
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News Obama calls on China to improve human rights as activist’s fate debated
04-30-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Steven Mufson
Without specifically mentioning negotiations over blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng, President Obama on Monday urged China to do more to improve its record on human rights issues “because we actually think China will be stronger as it opens up an
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News Two Crises Highlight China's Social Media Struggles
04-30-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Louisa Lim
China is clamping down on social media as it grapples with a crisis over by the escape of a high-profile dissident apparently to U.S. protection.
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News Foxconn Workers Threaten Suicide
04-28-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com
Workers at a Chinese factory owned by the electronics manufacturer Foxconn threatened to leap from the roof of a building in Wuhan in a protest over wages and working conditions.
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News CHINA'S RENMINBI VERSUS THE US DOLLAR: People's Bank of China widens trading range of the yu
04-26-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by John Chan
The People’s Bank of China last week widened the yuan’s daily trading band from 0.5 percent to 1 percent. In the short term, the Chinese central bank will continue to intervene in currency markets to ensure that no major fluctuations damage China’s s
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News Australia's Credit Bubble Is Built On An Even Bigger Chinese Credit Bubble
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Concerns of a slowdown in China have caused investors to grow even more cautious about Australia.
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News Tainted Drug Scandal
04-23-2012
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com,
Chinese state media say police have arrested nine people and detained 54 others in a crackdown on chromium-tainted gel capsules made from industrial waste.
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Headlines: Tainted Drug Scandal -- Australia's Credit Bubble Is Built On An Even Bigger Chinese Credit Bubble
-- With Al Qaeda Bogeyman Gone, US Turns to China -- CHINA'S RENMINBI VERSUS THE US DOLLAR: People's Bank of China widens trading range of the yu -- Foxconn Workers Threaten Suicide -- Two Crises Highlight China's Social Media Struggles -- Obama calls on China to improve human rights as activist’s fate debated -- Brewing a Conflict with China -- Sec. Clinton tosses Chinese dissident to the wolves before talks -- China Convicts Spy Blogger, Lets Others Keep Leaking -- Chinese activist pressured to leave US embassy, says friend -- Chinese Dam Building Boom -- Beijing Leaders Considering End of Communist Rule -- China Expels Al Jazeera Channel -- US plans 10-month warship deployment to Singapore -- Why Is The Obama Administration Allowing The Chinese Government To Buy Up U.S. Oil And Gas Deposits? -- China: Two hundred Foxconn workers threaten suicide -- High Speed Rail in China Rolls Again -- China may raise investment quota for foreigners-paper -- Real Estate Crash In China: Foreign Funding Down 80%, Land Sales Down 57%, Starts Down 27% -- It Looks A Lot Like China's Security Head Is About To Be Ousted -- Surprise! China’s Stealth Jets Are 2 Years Ahead of Schedule -- Chinese Real Estate Market Consolidating -- Exclusive: US lets China bypass Wall Street for Treasury Orders -- China Is Drowning In Excess Commodities And Canceling Orders Left And Right -- Will China Make the Yuan a Gold-Backed Currency? -- EU appeals to China to join global emissions talks -- Mainland China's Top Investment Bank Say China Will Crash If Greece Exits The Eurozone --