China Unveils Sophisticated Stealth Fighter Aircraft
ZHUHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - China unveiled a sophisticated new stealth fighter jet at an air show on Tuesday, a show of muscle during a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama for an Asia-Pacific...
View ArticleThere Are Signs Of Serious Divisions Within China's Communist Party Leadership
Signs of a serious division within the ruling Communist Party of China are emerging over a crackdown on corruption led by current leader Xi Jinping according to a recent U.S. intelligence report on the...
View ArticleOPEC Admits The Future Of Oil Is Dependent On Some Dodgy Assumptions About China
OPEC's analysis of future of global oil demand growth rest on hugely optimistic assumptions about the prospects for China's growth.In this year's World Oil Outlook, the cartel provided its forecasts...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Alibaba’s Financial Services Arm Is Absolutely Massive In...
Less than two months after his company Alibaba enjoyed the biggest IPO in history, founder and CEO Jack Ma says Alipay, part of the company’s financial services arm that’s similar to PayPal, “will...
View ArticleThe US And China Are About To Announce New Deals To Reduce The Chance Of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and China are planning to announce military agreements aimed at reducing the possibility of confrontation between the two powers, the Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleThe US And China Just Made A Landmark Joint Deal On Climate Change
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will aim for a peak in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, while the United States will strive to cut total emissions by more than a quarter by 2025, as the two countries try to...
View ArticleBOEHNER: Chinese Climate Deal Shows Obama's 'Crusade' Against Affordable Energy
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) isn't happy with US President Barack Obama's new agreement with China to lower greenhouse gas emissions."It is the latest example of the president's crusade against...
View ArticleHere Are The Details Of The 'Historic' Climate Agreement Between The US And...
The US and China announced a slate of deals early Wednesday that offered a surprising display of cooperation between the two countries on a range of issues. The most stunning agreement tackled climate...
View ArticleEverything About US-China Relations That Just Changed Forever
"I’m ready to work with you."That's what China's president Xi Jinping told Obama today after two intense days of meetings at the APEC summit in Beijing.He and Obama made some game-changing deals on...
View ArticleThe Russians Have Persuaded The Chinese To Bail Out Their Oil Industry (AAPL)
Last month Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov announced that Rosneft, Russia's largest oil company, had requested 2 trillion roubles (then $49 billion) from the state's National Wealth Fund (NWF)...
View ArticleJapan's Declining Population Could Prevent It From Being A Military...
Japan, long one of America's most important allies in the Pacific, is a primary counterweight to the growing power of China in the region.Japan is a cultural and economic powerhouse. But its ability to...
View ArticleReport: China Hacked America's Weather Satellites And Threatened Vital Data
Hackers from China broke into the US federal weather system in late September, according to a report in the Washington Post.The hack targeted a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration web...
View ArticleChina Is Finally Acting Like A Superpower — And Nobody Knows What's Going To...
Yesterday's carbon emissions deal between the US and China might end up having a far greater impact on global geopolitics than on the environment. As Matt Schiavenza explains at The Atlantic, it...
View ArticleChina's Property Market Hasn't Been This Cold Since July 2009
BEIJING (Reuters) - Growth in China real estate investment slowed further in the first 10 months of 2014, but property sales showed some signs of improvement, indicating Beijing's efforts to boost the...
View Article4 Charts Perfectly Explain What's Going On In China's Real Estate Sector
Chinese growth has been easing throughout 2014, driven by a weaker real estate and industrial investment, the latest Westpac BREE China Resources Quarterly says.This first chart, showing the investment...
View ArticleStriking Photos Show How Much China Has Changed Over The Decades
Few countries have changed in the past few decades as much as China.What used to be a mainly rural, under-developed country is now by one measure the world's largest economy, one whose cities are...
View ArticlePakistan Just Successfully Tested A Nuclear-Capable Ballistic Missile
Pakistan successfully tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile today with an impact point in the Persian Gulf. The newly tested version of the Shaheen-II ballistic missile, which is roughly...
View ArticleChina's New Submarine-Hunting Ship Shows How Beijing Is Countering The US...
China is upgrading its anti-submarine fleet, introducing a new ship with capabilities that would further hamper any US pivot to the Pacific.One of the major defensive gaps within the Chinese navy has...
View ArticleChina Doesn't Like Being Buzzed By US Spy Planes, But We're Going To Keep...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China raised the thorny subject of U.S. military spy flights during talks that led to agreements this week on reducing friction between the two militaries, but was told U.S....
View ArticleChina Just Found A Big Pile Of Gold Inside A Communist Official's Home
China's anti-graft watchdog has discovered 37 kilograms (82 pounds) of gold, documents for 68 houses and 120 million yuan ($19.6 million) in cash in the home of a Communist Party official who is being...
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