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Forget Anti-Japan Protests — Here's The REAL Reason Toyota Flopped In China
BEIJING, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp blames its China underperformance on the widespread anti-Japan protests triggered by a territorial row. Some company insiders and dealers, though, say the...
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Chinese State Newspaper Slams The New York Times
The New York Times has riled the elites of China with a damning look into Premier Wen Jiabao's finances published on Friday. Wen's family have already hinted at legal action against the Times, and...
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The Chinese Leadership Transition Is Teetering On 'Chaos'
Next month's once-in-a-decade Chinese leadership transition may be turning into "chaos", according to an analyst who spoke to John Garnaut of the Sydney Morning Herald. Li Weidong, the publisher of...
View ArticleBloomberg Employees Got Death Threats After Bombshell Xi Jinping Story
Leta Hong Fincher, a well-known academic in China who is married to Bloomberg News correspondent Mike Forsythe, reveals how serious the consequences can be for Western journalists in China. Now that...
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China Sentences Man To Year In Jail For Ringing Exam Bell 5 Minutes Early
A man in the central Chinese province of Hunan was sentenced to a year in prison for improperly administering the nation's ultra-competitive national college entrance exam, according to multiple...
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Your Sexy Nurse Costume Comes From China
With Halloween on Wednesday and trade with China again a focal point in the election, lets take a look at where exactly the U.S. finds all the Halloween costumes we import each year. For importers,...
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Bank Of America Just Published A Mega Bullish Note On China
Bank of America Merrill Lynch's China economist Ting Lu just published a big bullish 11-page report in which he cranked up his GDP estimates citing "across-the-board green shoots." First, here's a...
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China's Central Bank Just Pumped A Record Amount Of Money Into Its Financial...
People’s Bank of China injects record amount of liquidity today through open market operation. The central bank conducts RMB290 billion of 7-day reverse repurchase at 3.35% and RMB105 billion of...
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'In Britain, You're Still Walking. In China, We're Running'
In the first of a three-part series, Mick Brown travels to the Chinese city of Wuhan to see whether its emerging great wealth has also brought great happiness. Night had fallen in Wuhan, and Mrs Wang...
View ArticleWestern Reporters Trying To Cover Chinese Protests Dragged Away By...
The last few days has seen large-scale protests in the Chinese city of Ningbo, in the country's southeast. The protests spread over the weekend, aided by social media, and are aimed at blocking the...
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It's Only A Matter Of Time Before China Drops The One-Child Policy
China should immediately end its one-child policy and instead adopt a two-child scheme, a foundation with close links to the highest levels of the Communist party has said. The report from the China...
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There Are Two Dueling Groups Of Consumers Emerging In China
Retailers in China, the world's hottest consumer market, face some pretty big obstacles in succeeding there. The country's demographics are changing rapidly, and businesses have to figure out how to...
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Starbucks Has A Brilliant Strategy For Dominating The Chinese Market (SBUX)
Starbucks has been aggressive about changing when it enters new markets. It recently moved to a structure where regional presidents are almost CEOs of their own companies, because they better...
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Wen Jiabao Isn't The Only Fabulously Wealthy Chinese Leader
Last week's huge New York Times article about Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and his family's wealth has prompted a bitter backlash from China, just like Bloomberg's big article about future...
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Chinese Government Website Publishes Another Inexplicably Photoshopped Image
Chinese government websites have something of a history with terrible, nonsensical Photoshopped images. The latest comes from the Zhaotong Politics and Law Commission in Yunnan province. Beijing Cream...
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China's Manufacturing Industry Is Growing Again
At 9:00 PM EST, China's NBS will release the official October Manufacturing PMI number. Click Here For Updates > Economists expect the measure to increase to 50.2 from 49.8 in September. "By...
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BOOM: China's HSBC PMI Hits An 8-Month High
The unofficial HSBC China manufacturing PMI just came out. Click here for updates > The October reading climbed to 49.5 from 47.9 in September. This final number was notably stronge than the HSBC...
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Here's Why China's Official And Unofficial HSBC PMI Reports Are Conflicting...
China's official manufacturing PMI climbed to 50.2 in October, signaling expansion once again. Chin's unofficial HSBC manufacturing PMI also climbed, but only to 49.5. The former signals marginal...
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China's Stock Market Is Surging
China's Shanghai Composite index is up 1.8 percent late in the Asian trading session. This comes in the wake of the official and HSBC PMI reports that showed China's manufacturing industry is coming...
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There's Been A Shift In Thinking On The Global Economy — And It's Not Good...
The latest batch of global manufacturing data is helping to confirm a shift in conventional wisdom that's been brewing over the last couple of weeks. Whereas before, the thinking was that the US...
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