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Now China Says It May Own Okinawa, Too
China's top newspaper on Wednesday published a call for a review of Japan's sovereignty over the island of Okinawa -- home to major US bases -- with the Asian powers already embroiled in a territorial...
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CHART OF THE DAY: It Doesn't Take A Genius To See Something Fishy In China's...
Earlier today, China published its official April trade figures.And while the numbers for both imports and exports were much stronger than expected, experts have been left scratching their heads over...
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MOBILE INSIGHTS: Nokia Readies The Next Generation Of Its Lumia Line
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence that collects and delivers the top mobile industry news. It is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence...
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SocGen: Nearly Every Company We Met 'Admitted' That Chinese Trade Is About...
The better-than-expected Chinese trade data has everyone crying foul.Nomura's Zhiwei Zhang, Bank of AmericaMerrill Lynch's Weijun Hu and Ting Lu, and Societe Generale's Wei Yao have all pointed to...
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Nokia Readies The Next Generation Of Its Lumia Line
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.Nokia...
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Chinese Consumer Prices Rise 2.4%, Just Above Expectations
Chinese consumer prices climbed 2.4% year-over-year (YoY) in April. This was just above expectations for a 2.3% rise.Meanwhile, producer prices fell 2.6% YoY. Analysts had forecast a 2.3% fall. Food...
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Pork Prices Fall 6.5% In The World's Largest Pork Market
The decline in Chinese pork prices continues.After falling 5.5% year-over-year in March, pork prices fell 6.5% in April in the world's largest pork market.On a monthly basis, pork prices were down 6.1%...
View ArticleMARK MOBIUS: Property Sales Are Robust In China's So-Called 'Ghost Cities'
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, there has been a lot of recent media attention focused on the building boom that has been taking place in China, and some observers have jumped to the conclusion...
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The CEO Of China's Most Mysterious Tech Company Spoke To Reporters For The...
(Reuters) - Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, defended the Chinese firm's stand on U.S. cyber-security concerns when he spoke to the media for the first time on Thursday,...
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21 Giant Companies Reveal What's Really Going On In The Economy
Every earnings season, companies share the details of their financial performance. Additionally, many managers will reveal what they are seeing and what they are expecting for the economy.The view out...
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An Eerie Tour Of The Abandoned Chinese Amusement Park That's Finally Being...
Much has been made of Chinese ghost towns. Amid these ghost towns, one of the more remarkable stories has been that of China's 'Wonderland'. This was a Disneyland styled amusement park that was being...
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This Is What Happens When Flight Safety Gets Outsourced To China
Aircraft maintenance was a highly paid blue-collar job that required education, training, manual skills, and brains.It was one of the perfect American middle-class jobs with generous healthcare,...
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Here's The Anti-Suicide Vow Going Viral In China After The Suspicious Death...
Following the suspicious death of a young woman in Beijing, an anti-suicide message has gone viral in China.The BBC reports that the message has been posted over 20 million times and become the second...
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China Is Transforming Tibet's Holiest Area Into A Tourist District
China is transforming the ancient part of Tibet's capital into a tourist district according to a visiting native of the area, Amy Li of the South China Morning Post reports.The construction project...
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Ferrari Is Betting Big On China's Luxury Market
Ultra-luxe Ferrari is the latest auto manufacturer to set its sights on China.Earlier this week, Jing Daily wrote about the stream of international car companies – Audi, Tata, and GM among them – that...
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Central Banks Are Still Trying To Convince Us This Isn't A Currency War
Central bankers claim that they aren’t starting a currency war. They deny that their policies are aimed at the competitive devaluation of their currencies. Let’s call it competitive ultra-easing....
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A Complete Look At China's Latest Disappointing Data In One Chart (FXI, EWH)
The latest Chinese data shows a disappointing start to the second quarter.First, a quick round-up of the latest data from China:Over the weekend we saw industrial production rise 9.3% in April, below...
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3 Habits That Set Chinese Online Shoppers Apart From Westerners
The slowdown of China’s economic growth didn’t diminish Chinese consumers’ increasing confidence—especially their enthusiasm to shop online.As ecommerce grows in importance in China, not only do...
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13 Bizarre McDonald's Locations Around The World
McDonald's is the world's largest restaurant brand.And it doesn't hesitate to throw up its chains everywhere — whether its in the middle of a desert or inside a decommissioned plane.Here are 13 of the...
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The Depressing Lives Of China's Porn Inspectors
Despite China's ongoing sexual revolution, pornography is still illegal. Under Chinese law, anyone found to be producing and distributing obscene material can get three years in jail.The country...
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