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China exports just fell of a cliff
China, the world's second largest economy, is in trouble. Today, China revealed that exports, as calculated in yuan, fell by a massive 14.6% in March from a year ago.To get an idea of just how big this...
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Lamborghini and Ferrari wrecked in Beijing street race as 'Fast and Furious...
Beijing (AFP) - A Lamborghini and Ferrari crashed in a high-speed road race in Beijing as the seventh stunt-filled "Fast and the Furious" movie opened in China, the latest luxury car accident to...
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The Chinese company accused of stealing Apple's designs has a massive problem...
Xiaomi has a major problem with counterfeits.The red-hot Chinese electronics startup, which has been criticised by many because of the similarities some of its products bear to Apple's, is now claiming...
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The World Bank sees China's growth falling below 7% in the next two years
The World Bank sees economic growth in China falling below 7% in the next two years, according to its six monthly East Asia Pacific Economic Update.China growth, which eased 0.3 of a percentage point...
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Taiwan has been rejected as a founding member of China's new bank
Taiwan's bid to become a founding member of China's new regional development bank has been rejected, Beijing said on Monday, dashing the island's hopes of having a platform in the institution from the...
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Confidence in the Chinese stock market has returned with a vengeance
On 4/8, Reuters reported, “Chinese funds are snapping up shares in Hong Kong, betting that a link-up between the Shenzhen and Hong Kong stock exchanges, and easier access for institutional investors,...
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China becomes the first buyer of new, sophisticated S-400 Russian air defense...
China has become the first buyer of the S-400 air defense system after signing a contract with the Russian state-run arms dealer Rosoboronexport, the company’s chief executive told Russian daily...
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China wants to build a solar power plant in space to solve its pollution problem
In 1941, science fiction maven Isaac Asimov wrote a short story entitled "Reason." The plot revolves around protagonists Powell and Donovan, who live on a space station that collects energy from the...
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Meet the team who just exposed China's insanely powerful hacking tool
A few weeks ago Github was the target of a malicious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack focusing on pages owned by pro-Chinese free speech websites.Now, researchers at the University of...
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China's strategy for establishing naval superiority in Asia is not going to...
China is playing a careful yet potentially dangerous strategic game in its immediate region.On the one hand, Beijing wants to show that it's arrived as Asia's dominant superpower, and is putting its...
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China stocks surge to 7-year highs despite exports and imports falling sharply
China's exports and imports both fell sharply last month, sparking concern about the health of the world's second-largest economy, although the slip failed to prevent the stock markets from posting...
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The Wall Street Journal suggests Snowden gave China an incredibly powerful...
The Wall Street Journal thinks Edward Snowden may have provided China with a powerful new cyberweapon.China is known for its so-called Great Firewall, a nationwide system of web blocks and filters that...
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Dramatic satellite photos show the new islands China is building
Here's a new way to exert influence on a disputed territory: Build your own islands on it.Since January, China has been dragging huge scoops of sand from around a reef in the South China Sea and piling...
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The drop in commodity prices is fueling China's stock market frenzy
I’m going to begin with a bit of good news.Below is our China Region Fund (USCOX). As you can see, not only has it broken above its 50- and 200-day moving averages, but it’s also trading at four-year...
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The Macau bull thesis just died
Officials in the world's largest gambling hub have announced that visitation to the island from mainlanders will be capped at 21 million, according to the Macau Business Daily.This is to "rebalance"...
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China's wealthy are fleeing the country like crazy
Last year, Chinese millionaires maxed out the quota for EB-5 visas under the U.S.’s Immigrant Investor Program, and recently it was reported that 90% of Australia’s Significant Investor visas were...
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And now, China takes center stage
It’s the day when Asian markets take center stage, with the release of GDP and other critical data from China.Data from the world’s second-largest economy has been mixed in recent weeks, and markets...
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China's GDP is on target, but the data beneath is nasty
Chinese Q1 GDP along with industrial production, retail sales and urban fixed asset investment figures for March have just been released – and they’re horrible.Year-on-year GDP expanded 7%, below the...
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China tells the Dalai Lama to 'put aside his illusions' about Tibet talks
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Wednesday urged the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to "put aside his illusions" about talks on Tibet's future, and accused him of insincerity and covertly...
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There's a slight bright spot in China's latest economic data
We've received a pretty disappointing set of Chinese economic data today. GDP grew at the slowest pace in six years while industrial production, retail sales and urban fixed asset investment all came...
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