Some of China’s better-known and better-run companies have seen outsiders swoop in to amass significant stakes. Raising eyebrows among the financial community are firms like Anbang Insurance Group and Baoneng Group, a property and insurance…
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China Unicom branches out to the UK with CUniq MVNO
China Unicom has announced the launch of CUniq in London, it’s MVNO offering that allows multiple numbers on one SIM card, if you’re into that sort of thing. The one-card-multiple-number service targets business customers and…
Financial wizardry alone won’t stave off a Chinese debt crisis
China’s debt is beyond worrying … both politically and economically and will likely result in slower growth and great volatility in the financial markets. The debt-for-equity swap program is a temporary measure where a real…
Beijing faces decision on how to respond to Trump's tweets
BEIJING — With Donald Trump’s latest tweets touching on highly sensitive issues, China must decide how to handle an incoming American president who relishes confrontation and whose online statements appear to foreshadow shifts in foreign…
Market bears smell blood as China scrambles to plug capital outflows
China’s Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao was quoted on Saturday as saying policymakers were watching capital outflows closely. Bank of China, the country’s biggest currency trading bank, has begun to sharply limit corporate customers’ ability…
China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) Shares Bought by Integrated Investment Consultants LLC
Integrated Investment Consultants LLC raised its position in shares of China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE:CHL) by 40.7% during the third quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 2,380 shares of the company’s stock after buying…
U.S., China, EU, others fail to reach environmental goods deal
GENEVA — Forty-six countries including the U.S., China and European Union nations failed Sunday to agree on a list of “environmental goods” like solar-powered air conditioners or LED light bulbs that could be targeted for…
Trump’s call pleases Taiwan but inflames relationship with China
China cut off diplomatic contact with Taiwan in June … Associated Press journalist Isolda Morillo and news researcher Henry Hou in Beijing contributed to this report. ( read original story …)
Trump launches Twitter attack on China
Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump fired a Twitter broadside at China on Sunday, accusing the Asian giant of currency manipulation and military expansionism in the South China Sea. The taunt came two days after Trump…
Trump rants against China in Twitter outburst
which considers Taiwan to be part of China. Vice President-elect Mike Pence has tried to downplay the call. In in an interview with NBC News on Sunday, he said it was a “tempest in a…
The Coming War on China
They are in the northern hemisphere, on the western borders of Russia, and in Asia and the Pacific, confronting China. The great danger this beckons is not news, or it is buried and distorted: a…
Trump's call angers China
With a 10-minute phone call and two tweets, Donald Trump inspired banner headlines and renewed hopes across Taiwan for a stronger partnership with the United States, while also inflaming the complex relationships between the U.S.,…
Donald Trump Taiwan phone call: Behind China’s measured reaction
Research Fellow at United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Ashley Townshend told news.com.au that the call did indicate that Mr Trump and his team would probably push back more assertively on China.…