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China's financial market challenges

China's financial markets are emitting mixed messages. Its banks are the biggest in the world. Its financial system is increasingly fragile. What is really going on? Read more...
Memories of Water

Water, environment and development

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe and Asit K. Biswas have an important article to share with us on water, environment and development. Read more...
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Chinese art at Toronto's Shangri-La Hotel

Toronto's Shangri-La Hotel has the best collection of Chinese art in the city. You must go and savor the experience, as I have done. Read more...
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Ai Weiwei sculptures in Toronto

The exhibition of Ai Weiwei's sculptures in Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square is the highlight of the city's summer cultural season. Read more...
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China/US relationship now

Both Xi Jinping and Barack Obama would like a peaceful relationship so they can concentrate on dealing with problems at home. How will they manage? Read more...
China's inward and outward investment policies

China's inward and outward investment policies

Ken Davies, President of Growing Capacity, Inc, has kindly shared with us his update on China's investment policies. Read more...
How Not to Do Business in China

How Not to Do Business in China

Michael Bloomfield, Founder and Executive Director of the Harmony Foundation of Canada, has shared with us his views on how not to do business with China. It is essential reading! Read more...
Prelude to a water and economic crisis?

Prelude to a water and economic crisis?

Steady deterioration of water bodies is one of the most pressing problems facing the world today, especially in Asia, argue Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas. Read more...
Homage to the Unknown Rebel - 4 June, 1989 - Tiananmen Square Massacre

China's democratic future??

Minxin Pei recently wrote an interesting piece speculating on how China could become a democracy. But will China's future really be democratic? Could China even break up, like the former USSR? Read more...
Water treatment and paper chemicals plant in Nanjing, China

Pros and cons of PPPs in water sector

China should be able to structure new
generation of PPPs in the water sector which would be more successful than the existing ones, argue Zhang Yingxin Louisa and Asit Biswas. Read more...
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America's Chinese Dream

The US economy is wobbling slowly forward. Europe is just plain wobbling. And China has moved onto a slower growth path.

But a Chinese dream awaits America, if it wants it. Read more...
Governor Neil Abercrombie this morning at the US-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum & Signing Ceremony in Los Angeles, CA.

What Americans Should Know about the US-China Commercial Relationship

Ken Davies has shared with us his assessment of the US-China Business Council's 2013 report on China and the U.S. Economy. Read more...
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China's foreign policy

The enigmatic nature of China's foreign policy is evident as the US pushes China to tame North Korea. An excellent SIPR paper by Linda Jakobson and Dean Knox can help us understand the enigmas. Read more...
The Global Economic Outlook: Angel Gurría, Yi Gang

2013 OECD China Economic Survey

Our friend Ken Davies, President of Growing Capacity, Inc., has kindly shared with us his excellent review of the OECD's 2013 China Economic Survey. Read more...
Christine Lagarde Press Briefing

IMF's Lagarde on Asian Dream

Asia needs to rejuvenate its development strategy to fulfil the Asian dream of lasting growth and shared prosperity, according to IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Read more...
The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 to Liu Xiaobo

China's Liu Xiaobo

How powerful is China really when it fears the influence of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize–winning poet and essayist Liu Xiaobo to such a point that he is put in jail? Read more...
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Change of direction at Asian Development Bank?

Could the Asian Development Bank be heading in a new direction under the prospective new leadership of Takehiko Nakao? Read more...
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China's BO Xilai affair

The BO Xilai affair is China's biggest scandal since Tiananmen Square. But our Paris-based China watcher, Frederic Langer, argues that the West cannot wash its hands of BO's judiciary troubles. Read more...
Governor Neil Abercrombie this morning at the US-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum & Signing Ceremony in Los Angeles, CA.

From China bashing to China embrace

With electioneering "China bashing" now on the back-burner, the US/China economic relationship will become an increasingly important driver of US economic growth. Read more...

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China's international students

China and other Asian countries lead the world in sending their youth overseas to study. But too many do not return home. Some democracy and freedom would help China here. Read more...