China Signs Deal To Purchase 100 Airbus Helicopters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Airbus Group NV's helicopter division signed agreements on Monday to sell 100 helicopters to Chinese companies.The deals were signed in Beijing at the Great Hall of the People and...
View ArticleChina's Shadow Banking System Could Bring Down The World's Hottest Property...
Chinese investors are major players in the international real estate markets.The country's outbound property investment totaled $2.1 billion in Q1 2014, according to Jones Lang LaSalle.And now there...
View ArticleHere's What Investors Get Wrong About Chinese Consumers
Investors bullish on China often point to the rise of the country's middle class and the potential of its desire to consume.But in a new book titled "Myth-Busting China's Numbers: Understanding and...
View Article6 Massive Chinese Projects That Are Reshaping The World
In recent years, Chinese companies have begun a huge wave of construction that is already reshaping the world. Here are six of the most ambitious projects.$32 billion - China-Pakistan economic...
View ArticleJapan Furious After Chinese Newspaper Prints Mushroom Clouds On Map
TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday vowed to make a stern protest to China after a regional Chinese newspaper printed a map of the country with mushroom clouds hovering over the cities of...
View ArticleCARSON BLOCK: China's Fake GDP Is Over-Inflated By 25%
Muddy Waters founder Carson Block sat down for a short interview at the FT's Camp Alphaville conference, and walked us through some ugly numbers for China's GDP.He says that he believes that when...
View ArticleChinese Consumer Prices Rise Just Shy Of Expectations
Chinese consumer prices climbed 2.3% year-over-year in June.This was just shy of expectations for a 2.4% rise and compares to a 2.5% rise the previous month.Meanwhile, producer prices were down 1.1%...
View ArticleHong Kong's Protests Could Send Its Property Market Into The Worst Slump...
Pro-democracy protestors took to the streets of Hong Kong on July 1 marching for universal suffrage (the right to vote) in the 2017 elections. This came on the back of not just an informal referendum...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Android Leads iOS In Several Key Regions — Except Japan
As we mentioned in Tuesday’s Chart Of The Day, Android is far behind iOS in terms of mobile web traffic, but Google’s open operating system still maintains a strong lead over Apple's mobile platform in...
View ArticleWhy China Considers Itself The Center Of The World
China is not only the world’s most populated country, it also boasts the planet’s oldest civilization — an agricultural-based society formed on the Yellow River 5,000 years ago. During this long period...
View ArticleChinese Exports Miss Expectations
Chinese exports climbed 7.2% year-over-year in June, missing expectations for a 10.4% rise. This compared to a 7% rise in May.Meanwhile, Chinese imports were up 5.5%, missing expectations for a 6%...
View ArticleChina's Central Bank Has Stimulated The Economy Right Into Deflation
The PBOC certainly has contributed to the supply of global liquidity since the Great Financial Crisis. So have the government’s various spending programs. The problem is that monetary and fiscal...
View ArticleHow A Crackdown On Chinese Money Laundering Could Squeeze The US Housing Market
A few days ago we finally closed the door on any argument who the marginal buyer in the US luxury housing segment was - the answer: Chinese oligarchs, scrambling to launder their "hot" domestic money...
View ArticleOne Of China's Biggest Banks Is Being Probed For Money-Laundering
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's central bank is looking into allegations by a central government television broadcaster that Bank of China, one of the country's "big four" state-owned commercial banks,...
View ArticleGlitch Allows Brief Access To Google In China — Now Its Blocked Again
BEIJING (Reuters) - Google Inc services were once again being disrupted in China on Friday after a brief respite on Thursday, users and an anti-censorship group reported, continuing more than a month...
View ArticleCHINA: The iPhone Is A Threat To National Security
Chinese state media on Friday branded Apple Inc's iPhone a threat to national security because of the smartphone's ability to track and time-stamp user locations.A report by broadcaster CCTV criticized...
View ArticleHow Trains Could Go 1,800 Miles An Hour
Trains that use magnets to levitate above the tracks might sound like something from Back to the Future, but the concept of magnetic levitation has been around for many years. Maglev trains, which use...
View ArticleA Chinese Couple Reportedly Sold Their Two Children To Fund Their Internet...
A Chinese couple reportedly sold their two newborns to help offset the costs of their online gaming addictions, Games in Asia reports, citing a Chinese-language website.After each of the unplanned...
View ArticleHow and Why Lofty Ideologies Cohabit With Rampant Corruption
How and why lofty ideologies cohabit with rampant corruptionCasual observers of Russian politics could be forgiven for feeling confused. On the one hand Vladimir Putin, the president, portrays himself...
View ArticleChina's Top Paper Warns Against 'New Cold War' With US
China and the United States must avoid a "new cold war" in their international relations, China's top newspaper said on Saturday, in the wake of high level talks in Beijing between senior leaders of...
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