China’s Housing Market – an Inflationary Bubble, or a Sustainable Boom?
Once again, inflation increased in China last month by more than economists expected, as rising commodity costs and inflows of capital threaten to overheat economies across Asia. China’s consumer...
View ArticleTrading With The Enemy: Sino-American Cyber-Espionage
China has over 400 million internet users, more than any other nation. This exponentially increasing population of Chinese netizens entering the global internet community has not come without serious...
View ArticleTrading With the Enemy: The Bear and the Dragon
In the last installment of the two part “Trading with the Enemy” Series, this blog looked a serious issues of contention affecting Sino-American trade-relations, cyber-espionage and hacking. Now we...
View ArticleTrading With the Enemy: The Bear and the Dragon Update
In an update to the previous post, Russia is already accusing China of trying to fix market prices for the new Skovorodino-Daqing. That’s very shocking, I know. Business Insider posted an article...
View ArticleThe Dragon's Demographic Challenge: How Fast Can China Grow?
I recently came across an interesting paper at Brookings by Wang Feng, The Future of a Demographic Overachiever: Long-Term Implications of the Demographic Transition in China. The title of the paper...
View ArticleChina’s Innovation Policies – The Real Danger for the U.S Economy???
U.S. experts and politicians are starting to hone into the ‘dangers’ of R&D and technology transfers to China, as the most serious long-term threat to the U.S. economy and national security. U.S....
View ArticleThe Other China: Will the ECFA Be the End of Ma if Taiwanese Don't 'Choose...
Firstly, an update to my previous post concerning Chinese Cyber-Espionage attacks on the U.S. and other developed nations. AP national writer, Pauline Arrillaga, did a much broader write-up on the...
View ArticleJon Huntsman for President of Chimerica!
In this multi-polar world we live in, cooperation among the top three world powers (U.S., China, EU – see my previous post on ‘Triangle World Order’) will be paramount in fixing global problems like...
View ArticleChina’s Response to the Downgrade of America’s Credit Rating Should be to...
A lot has been said by the major Western news sources (WSJ, Bloomberg, FT, NY Times) about China’s reaction to the downgrade of the U.S. creditworthiness. Although there has been no official comment...
View ArticleChina’s Efforts to Internationalize its Currency
It is a well know fact that China undervalues its currency, by pegging the renminbi (RMB) to the dollar at an artificially low level. This, along with other subsidies and mercantilist trade policies,...
View ArticleA ‘Fall of Discontent’ for U.S.-China Trade Relations.
Global economic developments this year, along with the impact of safe-haven investment flows have led to the appreciation of the dollar in global markets, contributed to the high level of unemployment...
View ArticleAPEC and the TPP – The Best Way to Deal with China’s Harmful Trade Policies.
Last month Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed, in an article for the Foreign Policy Magazine, ‘America’s Pacific Century’! This week, President Obama will be laying the foundation through a...
View ArticleFrom Rabbit to Dragon? More Like the Other Way Around. A Review of China in...
Last year was the Year of the Rabbit for the Chinese – promising among other things good luck! However, China which came out of the global financial crisis almost unscathed (or at least better off...
View ArticleChina Promises to Rescue the EU… Again?
Amidst all that is happening in the Arab world (escalating violence in Syria, and nuclear brinkmanship by Iran) and the never-ending (epic) saga of the Greek sovereign debt crisis, comes the delayed...
View ArticleXi’s African Charm Offensive
Photo: John Lukuwi, AFP/Getty Images Incoming Chinese president Xi Jinping’s first trip as head of state took him to Russia, Tanzania, South Africa and the Republic of Congo late last month. His...
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