September 21, 2012 • 5:52 am 0
President Obama’s patience with China had been fraying for months, and by November 2010 he was fed up. Meeting with President Hu Jintao in Seoul, …
MORE via Obama’s Evolution to a Tougher Line on China – NYTimes.com.
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September 1, 2012 • 5:46 pm 0
THE Chinese economy has a habit of beating expectations. For ten years in a row, from 2001 to 2010, its growth rate exceeded the IMF’s spring forecast, often by a big margin. But this year it is likely to disappoint. In recent months, industrial output has slowed sharply; stocks of unsold goods are piling up; and Shanghai’s stockmarket is at a three-year low. For the first time this century, in 2012 China’s growth rate may …
MORE via China’s economy: Slow boats | The Economist.
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February 14, 2012 • 8:36 pm 0
China’s vice president, Xi Jinping, began a day of high-level meetings here on Tuesday by greeting his host, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who will squire him through a cross-country tour of the United States that amounts to a …
MORE via China’s Vice President, Xi Jinping, Opens U.S. Tour – NYTimes.com.
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January 17, 2012 • 8:10 am 0
OPPOSITE Rio de Janeiro’s best-known shopping mall, just before the tunnel that takes drivers to the beach resorts of Copacabana and Ipanema, stands a gleaming new showroom for JAC Motors, a state-owned Chinese car maker. The prominence of the location is appropriate: imported Chinese cars have suddenly become a visible presence on Brazil’s roads. This has alarmed Brazil’s car industry and President …
MORE via Brazil’s trade policy: Seeking protection | The Economist.
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December 20, 2011 • 3:09 am 0
THE spectre looming over Barack Obama’s eight-day swing through Asia was unmistakable. Behind the talk of a trans-Pacific free-trade zone, and the agreement to rotate American troops through a base in northern Australia, and America’s first participation in the East Asian Summit meeting in Bali, the president’s tour was all about …
MORE via China and America in South-East Asia: Dance of the giants | The Economist.
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November 24, 2011 • 9:28 pm 0
AT FIRST blush, Chow Tai Fook (CTF) may seem to be in a spot of bother. The secretive Hong Kong-based chain of jewellery stores, which on some measures is …
MORE via Chinese jewellers: Beijing bling | The Economist.
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June 15, 2011 • 4:40 am 0
“IT IS the end of cheap goods,” says Bruce Rockowitz. He is the chief executive of Li & Fung, a company that sources more clothes and common household products from Asia than perhaps any other. In the low-tech areas in which Li & Fung specialises, the firm handles an estimated …
MORE via Chinese manufacturers: The end of cheap goods? | The Economist.
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May 9, 2011 • 7:35 pm 0
The United States’ most vilified terrorist foe has been dead only a week but China is already haunted by the phantom of the next big US enemy. Almost simultaneously with the spread of the news of Osama bin Laden’s death in a covert US operation in Pakistan, Chinese analysts had begun…
MORE via After Osama, China fears the next target – Features – Al Jazeera English.
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