China

A Trillion Dollar Plan to Rebuild the World Makes China the New Global Leader

By Patrick Smith

While most of the world wonders nervously what’s next from the Trump White House, the confident China President Xi Jinping is shifting his bid for global leadership into a full-court press.
China Fires Up a Massive Floating Solar Farm

By Irina Slav, Oilprice.com

Images of the Beijing smog and millions of people wearing masks to be able to breathe are among the more dramatic depictions of air pollution caused by excessive industrialization. Now that China is...
Why China, Not OPEC, Will Make or Break the Price of Oil This Year

By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.com

The OPEC deal will lead to an ongoing tightening of the crude oil market, putting a floor beneath crude prices in the $50s per barrel in the second half of 2017, according to Helima Croft of RBC...
Are China’s Hidden Liabilities Behind Moody’s Ratings Downgrade?

By Patrick Smith

Concerns about China’s “massive debt burden” and slowing economy are causing new concerns after Moody’s Investor Services sounded a full-blown alarm this week downgrading China’s credit rating on...
Why China May Be Headed for a Massive Bank Bailout

By John Ruwitch and Yawen Chen, Reuters

Moody's Investors Service downgraded China's credit ratings on Wednesday for the first time in nearly 30 years, saying it expects the financial strength of the economy will erode in coming years as...

As the US Pulls Back, China Boosts Global Trade on a New Silk Road

By Ben Blanchard and Sue-Lin Wong, Reuters

Chinese President Xi Jinping and 29 other heads of state on Monday reaffirmed their commitment to build an open economy and ensure free and inclusive trade, under the ambitious Belt and Road...
Trump Projects Confidence As China Meeting Looms

By Rob Garver

Less than a week before he sits down with the president of China for what will be his most complex and challenging foreign negotiation since taking office, President Trump gave an interview to The...
Why China Is a Big Part of Tesla’s Future

By Evelyn Cheng

Elon Musk's Tesla is a growing player in China, where the global fight to develop electric, self-driving cars is raging hot. Hong-Kong traded Tencent, a company best known for its WeChat messaging...
Tillerson’s Asia Trip Could Signal the End US Soft Diplomacy

By Patrick Smith

Tillerson’s tour is an opening round in an extended process. But early signals indicate that Washington risks serious damage to important relationships across the Pacific—notably with China and South...
Trump to Finally Crack Down on China's Hacks, Theft and Lies at US Expense

By Liz Peek

Long coddled by establishment Foggy Bottom types and by U.S. corporations salivating over China’s burgeoning markets, Beijing has met little resistance as it has cyber attacked U.S. corporate and...

How to Make the Trans-Pacific Partnership Work for Workers

By David Dayen

The current fight over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal has centered mostly on the impact it would have on American workers’ jobs and wages. But a new book flips that, focusing on those...
China’s $100 Billion Infrastructure Bank: Bumpy Road Ahead

By Hilton L. Root

Has the Asian century finally arrived? You might think so, reading the international media’s take on the rush to join the new Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). To date, some 58...
China Gambles on Its Own ‘Keystone Pipeline’

By Eric Pianin

China is wasting little time gearing up its new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in what many analysts see as a direct challenge to the U.S. for global economic dominance in the coming years...
Paulson Says China Must ‘Reboot’ Its Staggering Economy

By Eric Pianin

President Obama left little doubt last week that he views China as a serious threat to U.S. economic dominance overseas. “The fastest growing markets, the most populous markets are going to be in...
These Two Countries Benefit Most from Cheap Oil

By Gaurav Agnihotri, Oilprice.com

We are living in a world obsessed with oil and its price movements. Some time back, when all the trade pundits were predicting a stable 100$ benchmark, the prices fell… and how! The current fall in...

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