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Bates Gill Named To China Post At Asia Society Amid Rise In Great Power Competition
Asia Society CEO Kevin Rudd, pictured in 2010, welcomed Gill’s appointment at a time of growing … [+] great power competition. (Photo by Alan Porritt-Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images Long-t...
China’s ‘Lost Decade’ Is Even Worse Than You Think
People line up for Covid tests in front of a mobile testing booth in July 19, 2022 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. Yuan Kejia/VCG via Getty Images Turns out, economists worried about a Japan-li...
New China Lockdown Hits 21 Million People In Chengdu Amid ‘Zero Covid’ Push
Topline Chinese officials will lock down the city of Chengdu on Thursday in an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19, confining millions to their homes and closing business in one of China’s largest a...
China is set to convene a historic meeting on Oct. 16. Here’s what to expect
Chinese President Xi Jinping is widely expected to further consolidate his power at a twice-a-decade congress this fall. He is pictured here on July 1, 2022, at a swearing-in ceremony for Hong Kong...
U.S. needs miracle to avoid recession, economist Stephen Roach warns
Negative economic growth in the year’s first half may be a foreshock to a much deeper downturn that could last into 2024. Stephen Roach, who served as chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, warns the ...
U.S. Cancer Moonshot Needs Stronger Int’l Effort To Make Substantial Progress – Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society, introduces Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, at … [+] George Washington University in Washington, D.C. on May 26, 2022. Photographer: Eric Lee/B...
China’s GDP Woes Crash Fed’s Jackson Hole Party
Jerome Powell speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview during the Jackson Hole economic symposium in Moran, Wyoming, U.S. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Not since 1997 have central bankers gatherin...
Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Is Another Blow To Global Tech
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – AUGUST 03: Speaker of the U.S. House Of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), left, … [+] poses for photographs after receiving the Order of Propitious Clouds with Special ...
China’s Problem Isn’t Nancy Pelosi —It’s Turning Japanese
A staff member counts yuan notes deposited by customers at a bank in Haian, East China’s Jiangsu Province, July 12, 2022. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Xi Jinping has a growing list o...
Biden And Xi Talk, But Not About The Global Economic Slowdown
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with China’s President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit from the … [+] Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, November 15, 2021. MANDEL NGAN/...
Biden-Xi make plans to meet, U.S. official says, Xi warns on Taiwan
U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a phone call Thursday. Pictured here is their virtual meeting on Nov. 15, 2021. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — U.S. President...
China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Mess Is Infecting Asia’s Economies
Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects the Chinese People’s Liberation Army PLA Garrison in Hong Kong on July 1, 2022. Li Gang/Xinhua via Getty Images Ten years of President Xi Jinping trying to ...
China signals no big stimulus is coming, while Covid controls remain
A worker in a protective suit cleans the floor at a subway station, after the lockdown placed to curb the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak was lifted in Shanghai, China June 2, 2022. Aly Song ...
China’s Xi wishes Biden a ‘speedy recovery’ from Covid
Pictured here is a news broadcast in China of President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit with U.S. President Joe Biden in November 2021. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — Chi...
Biden says he expects to speak with China’s Xi in 10 days
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with media on July 20, 2022, after disembarking Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — U.S. President Joe Bid...
China Giving Off Lehman Brothers Energy Across The Economy
After Evergrande sold its stake in the Vertex, a residential development in Hong Kong, homebuyers suddenly discovered they were at risk of losing their deposits because Evergrande’s financing un...
U.S., China Leaders May Be On Track To Meet In November – China Think-Tank Chief
U.S. President Joe Biden listens while meeting virtually with Xi Jinping, China’s president, in the … [+] Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 15, 2...
Historic Shifts In Russian Energy Flows Bolstering China
Russian President Vladimir Putin looks at the screen with Chinese President Xi Jinping session … [+] during the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum SPIEF 2022, on June 17, 2022, in Saint Petersburg,...
Chinese President Xi Jinping Praises ‘One Country, Two Systems Success As He Swears In New Hong Kong Leader
China’s President Xi Jinping waves following his speech after a ceremony to inaugurate the city’s new leader and government in Hong Kong on July 1, 2022, on the 25th anniversary of the cit...
Business Appeal Suffers Amid Diminishing Freedoms
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Hong Kong had “risen from the ashes” after several severe challenges, as he arrived in the city on Thursday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handove...
China’s Xi arrives in Hong Kong in first trip off mainland since pandemic
Chinese President Xi Jinping is pictured here speaking during the unveiling of the Communist Party’s new Politburo Standing Committee on October 25, 2017 in Beijing, China. Lintao Zhang | Getty ...
Negative Views Of China Remain High In New Pew Survey Of 19 Countries
Some 70% of Americans say U.S.-China relations are bad, according to the Pew Research Center. (AP … [+] Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS Negative views of China, the world’s No. 2 eco...
China’s 5.5% GDP Obsession Has $8 Trillion Dark Side
Chinese President Xi Jinping chairs the High-level Dialogue on Global Development via video link in Beijing, China, on June 24, 2022. Li Tao/Xinhua via Getty Images China is going to grow 5.5% this ye...
Five Reasons The Ukraine War Could Force A Rethink Of Washington’s Pivot To Asia
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has greatly complicated U.S. military and diplomatic calculations, but it doesn’t seem to have changed official Washington’s belief that China is the greater threat. A fac...
China’s Xi says trade with Russia to hit new records in coming months
Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke Friday via video at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum’s plenary session, which Russian President Vladimir Putin opened with a speech over an hour...
U.N. Visit To China Fails Victims And Aids State Propaganda
The U.N. visit to China failed victims who have been silenced yet again. Michelle Bachelet’s trip to China marks the first time a U.N. human rights commissioner has had access to China since 2005. How...
China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Mess + Ukraine Crisis = Global Recession
Delivery workers wearing protective gear check their phones during a lockdown in the Jing’an district of Shanghai on May 25, 2022. HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images The global economy arguably...
Covid-Hit Shanghai To Allow Gradual Reopening Of Malls And Markets, Xinhua Says
Members of a disinfection crew ride bicycles down a street in Shanghai, China on Saturday, May 7. … [+] Source: Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Shanghai will gradually allow shopping malls...
China may chalk up more debt as lockdowns hit the economy
Covid lockdowns have hit China’s economy, and the Asian giant might have to issue more debt to continue meeting its growth target. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Images China may have ...
US businesses in China cut revenue forecasts, investment plans
Truck drivers, such as the one pictured here in Shanghai in late April, typically need to show valid negative virus tests in order to move goods between cities in China. The American Chamber of Commer...