Like elsewhere in the world, mixing business with politics has pitfalls and even dangers. This is particularly so in China where, as the government’s stranglehold over the economy is still immense and the policymaking process…
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North Korea seen looking to China, not U.S., for help in any economic transformation
As well as China, North Korea may also look to other economies where tight top-down control has been kept, including Vietnam or even the ‘chaebol’ business structures of South Korea, which could allow something closer…
China’s most important sector still has opportunity
China has seen a big shift in people moving from the countryside into the cities this century. Government intervention has helped keep the market on track. Consolidation provides opportunity. Despite long-running international concerns about China’s…
China plans to provide internet access to almost all of its poor villages in the next three years
China had 1.08 billion 4G network users at the end of April, while fixed-broadband subscribers to the country’s three major telecom operators, China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile, reached 366 million. ( read original…
Why China has Canada spooked about the world’s plastic waste crisis
And now, six months after China shut its doors to accepting roughly half of the world’s plastic waste, bales of Canadian recyclables are being diverted to landfills or shipped to other plastic-choked regions of Asia…
China mobile phone shipments pick up in May
China’s mobile phone shipments in May reached 37.83 million, edging up 1.2 percent year-on-year, ending 14 months of declines, according to a report published Friday. Increasing 4G phone shipments were the main contributor to the…
China’s Xi calls out ‘selfish, short-sighted’ trade policies
QINGDAO, China (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose country is locked in a high-stakes trade dispute with the United States, on Sunday said China rejects “selfish, shortsighted” trade policies, and called for building an…
China Oceanwide’s $2.7 Billion Takeover of Genworth Financial Passes U.S. Security Review
WASHINGTON—A U.S. national security panel approved a Chinese conglomerate’s $2.7 billion takeover of Richmond, Va.-based insurer Genworth GNW 2.42% Financial Inc., after the companies convinced authorities they would take extraordinary steps to secure … (…
All the ways China could keep its eyes and ears on the US-North Korea summit without being there
US officials are reportedly bracing for China to covertly make its presence known at the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. As the June 12 meeting in Singapore…
Narendra Modi in China highlights: Bank of China’s first branch to open in Mumbai
Chinese President Xi Jinping has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invite to India for an informal summit next year, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said on Saturday. While addressing the media on the meeting between the…
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States Completes Review of Proposed China Oceanwide and Genworth Financial Transaction
RICHMOND, Va., June 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co., Ltd. (Oceanwide) and Genworth Financial, Inc. (GNW) today announced that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has completed its…
Narendra Modi in China LIVE updates: Bank of China’s first branch to open in Mumbai
Chinese President Xi Jinping has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invite to India for an informal summit next year, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said on Saturday. While addressing the media on the meeting between the…
China is in Trouble
1 In comparison with those of Western economies, China’s countermeasures against the crisis in 2008 were significantly more drastic. While in the US the balance sheet total of the banking system increased by USD 4,000bn…
