Hong Kong Residents Shout 'Dead Locusts' At Mainland Smugglers
While most China-watchers were focused on mainland China over the past week, with anti-Japanese violence and the return of Xi Jinping, this protest in Hong Kong went under the radar. According to...
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Wow, That's A Lot Of Gray Swans And Fat Tails
The term “Black Swan” became extremely popular after Nassim Taleb introduced it in his book and the 2008 meltdown graphically illustrated the concept. As it became part of the Wall Street lexicon, the...
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Here's Two Paragraphs That Could Force The US To Get Involved In The Latest...
Tensions are running high between China and Japan other a small series of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkakus in Japan and the Diaoyu in China and Taiwan. You can read...
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Why Americans Should Be Rooting For A Strong China
Both President Obama and Mitt Romney portray China as a rival flaunting trade deals in order to steal American jobs, but what voters aren’t hearing is that the recent slowdown by the Asian juggernaut...
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China Loves Liquor
Morgan Stanley's China food, beverage, and tobacco analysts have a new report titled Asia Insight: Alcoholic Beverages – Don't Mix Beer with Spirits & Wine. According to there research, demand for...
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Chinese Official Photographed Smirking After A Traffic Accident That Left 36...
A Chinese civil servant who was photographed smiling at the scene of a traffic accident has been fired, China Daily reports, after Weibo users began to investigate his personal finances. The story...
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Companies That Want To Do Business With China Are Facing This Frustrating...
State-owned Chinese oil company CNOOC is trying to merge with Calgary-based Nexen, and it's facing political hurdles in both Canada and the United States. Nearly seven out of ten Canadians opposed...
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The iPhone 5 May Launch In China Sooner Than Expected (AAPL)
The iPhone 5 may launch in China earlier than expected, most likely in October, Shanghai Daily's Zhu Shenshen reports. For previous models of the iPhone, it typically took Apple at least one month to...
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And Now China Has Angered Australia
China may have made a new geopolitical foe due to its talks with Fiji: Australia. Last week China sent its top legislator, Wu Bangguo, to the tiny pacific nation of Fiji. During the trip, Fiji Prime...
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Running A Walmart In China Is Hard
The problems retailers face in China are well known, with labor and logistics probably being at the top of the list. For stores that sell food, you’ve also got to throw in a number of other...
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China Just Juiced Its Banking System With A Record Amount Of Cash
People’s Bank of China provide massive liquidity through another round of reverse repurchase operation. PBOC conducts a RMB50 billion of 14-day reverse repo at 3.45%, and RMB130 billion of 28-day...
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It's Still Unclear How 'Iron Man 3' Will Avoid Antagonizing China
When I get things wrong, I’m not averse to a public mea culpa. It’s the only way I can justify patting myself on the back when I get something right. Well, I have to admit that I was off my game when...
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The Miraculous Decoupling Of Reality, For Now
A veritable chorus of large US corporations has chopped their forecasts down a few sizes, citing the China slowdown, wobbly demand from emerging markets, the ongoing fiasco in Europe, or weakness in...
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Here's What Romney And Obama REALLY Plan To Do About China
With Ohio apparently slipping from Mitt Romney's grasp, the Republican presidential candidate has ramped up his tough talk on China this week in a major push to win over the manufacturing-heavy Rust...
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With China's Growth Slowing, We Could See More Foxconn-Style Riots
As Niels Bohr (and others) observed, prediction is difficult, especially about the future. But if the challenge is predicting the number of 20-year-olds 5 years from now, you can get a pretty darn...
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Leading Chinese Forensic Scientist Casts Doubt On Conviction Of Bo Xilai's Wife
A leading Chinese forensic scientist has publicly cast doubt on the conviction of Gu Kailai for murdering British businessman Neil Heywood with cyanide. The wife of ousted leader Bo Xilai was...
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SPOTTED: A Hot Pink Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG In Shanghai
Most Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG owners go with conventional color choices: red, black, gray, the occasional white. Not the case for this Chinese driver, who proudly parked their hot pink model on the...
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EXPERT: Military Conflict 'Looms' Between China And Japan
War between China and Japan looms, with neither power willing to back down over a disputed chain of islands, expert warns. The spat over the Diaoyu or Senkaku islands has escalated dramatically in the...
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Nike's Profit Decline In China Is Stunning (NKE)
A quick look at Nike's performance in China tells you a lot about what's going on in that market, and why Chinese stocks have been clobbered so hard. First, as you can see from this earnings table...
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Bo Xilai Kicked Out Of Communist Party — Accused Of Corruption And Affairs...
Bo Xilai, the former regional Communist party boss who lost his seat earlier this year, has officially been kicked out of the communist party. Recall that his wife has been found guilty for a role in...
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