Germany And China To Greece: Do Not Reneg On Reforms
Athens (AFP) - Economic powerhouses Germany and China warned Greece on Thursday against reneging on reforms tied to its massive international bailout, with markets still jittery over fears Athens could...
View ArticleUS Tech Companies Are Partnering With Chinese Firms To Survive In China
U.S. technology companies in China are forming alliances with domestic firms, hoping that having a local partner will make it easier to operate in the increasingly tough environment for foreign...
View ArticleChina Just Lost One Of Its Key Allies In The Indian Ocean
The balance of power in Asia could be completely shifted by Mathripala Sirisena.After withstanding 25-year civil war, Sri Lanka’s government established a relative peace in 2009. And in a sign of...
View ArticleIt Looks Like An Armed Chinese-Made Drone Crashed In Nigeria
As the brutal Boko Haram insurgency has entered its 7th year in Nigeria, the relationship between the government and China has deepened. In many ways it is a match of needs.The Nigerian military has a...
View ArticleHow Scary Is The Slowdown In China? Shanghai Is Refusing To Set New Growth...
Of China's 31 provinces, 30 managed to miss their 2014 growth targets with Tibet the only one to hit its forecast as evidence mounts that the country's economy is slowing.And Shanghai is now refusing...
View ArticleXiaomi Showed Its Customers A Map Of India That Made Them Furious
The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has inadvertently reignited a century-old geopolitical dispute between India and China, Quartz reports.Officially the most valuable startup in the world, the...
View ArticleChina's New Tech Rules Play To Local Firms' Strengths
Draft Chinese government regulation would force technology vendors to meet stringent security tests before they can sell to China's banks, an acceleration of efforts to curb the country's reliance on...
View ArticleChinese students explain why their country's billion dollar education push is...
Two years ago, The New York Times reported that China is pouring $250 billion a year into higher education, with a goal of producing 195 million college graduates by 2020. Judging by the numbers,...
View ArticleChina is banning university textbooks that promote Western values
Chinese education authorities have pledged to redouble efforts to control the use of imported textbooks in Chinese universities to stem the influence of Western values on the younger generation.The...
View ArticleChina is building a string of artificial islands to fortify its position in...
China is constructing five man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea in an apparent effort to secure its sweeping territorial claims in the region, the Los Angeles Times reports.The largest...
View ArticleHere's why the boss can't ride a bike to work in China
If you are the boss, your behavior may be speaking volumes without your even recognizing it, and it says different things around the world.Take a simple action like riding a bike to work. In countries...
View ArticleAsia's mounting debt pile is terrifying and it's only getting worse
Morgan Stanley just came out with a fresh chartbook looking through Asia's debt situation again. It's safe to say that it's still looking grim.While all eyes are on Europe, falling inflation (and the...
View ArticleThe global slow down is making Asia's debt problems much worse
Morgan Stanley just came out with a fresh chartbook looking through Asia's debt situation again. It's safe to say that it's still looking grim.While all eyes are on Europe, falling inflation (and the...
View ArticleApple has opened a gorgeous new store in China
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View ArticleWhy China wants to become the world's banker
The International Monetary Fund is meant to be the firefighter of the world economy. Recently, though, it is China that has responded to the ringing of alarms. First, it lent Argentina cash to...
View ArticleChina is cracking down on foreign tech companies — and Apple is going to...
China is introducing strict new rules for technology companies that want to sell their products to Chinese banks, The New York Times reports— stoking fears of a crackdown that could harm American...
View ArticleChina has escalated internet censorship to a whole new level
China has long been locked in a struggle to censor the Internet, but recent actions have show the government is taking its efforts to a whole new level.Using a virtual private networks (VPN) is a...
View ArticleChina's manufactuing sector starts 2015 by contracting
China's manufacturing sector is contracting.The HSBC manufacturing PMI registered at 49.7 in January, up slightly from 49.6 in December.But any reading below 50 signals decline.This follows the...
View ArticleANALYST: China's 'long-awaited day of reckoning' is here
All the devils have come together for the Chinese economy, and the country's "long-awaited day of reckoning" is upon us, Societe Generale analyst Wei Yao writes in a recent note.To China bears who have...
View ArticleThere's a big risk of global deflation in 2015
The risk of global deflation looms large for 2015 as surveys of China's mammoth manufacturing sector showed excess supply and as deficient demand in January drove down prices and production.While the...
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