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07.02.15Foreign Films Rise Again at China’s Box Office
Wall Street Journal
China’s movie market is booming, with $3.3 billion worth of ticket sales in the first half of the year, up nearly 50% from the same period in 2014.
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06.08.15Americans Buy a Fifth of China’s Exports
Bloomberg
Americans bought almost $1 out of every $5 worth of goods that China exported in May, the highest share since August 2010.
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04.13.15China’s March Exports Shrink 15 Percent Year-on-Year in Shock Fall
Reuters
The tumble could heighten worries about how a rising yuan hurt demand for Chinese goods and services abroad.
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01.19.15Food Detectives on a Tough Case
New York Times
Behind the immaculate gray walls of the Customs and Border Protection’s laboratory here stands a cabinet containing three plastic vials filled with a sticky, yellowish substance. Honey, or so an importer has claimed.
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07.28.14China Needs to Import More Food to Ease Water, Energy Shortages
Reuters
China should boost imports of food so it can dedicate more of its scarce water supplies to energy production, especially in arid but coal-rich regions like Xinjiang and Ningxia
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06.23.14Bangladesh Woos China in Snub to West
Al Jazeera
India is likely to be watching closely as Sheikh Hasina bolsters ties with Beijing to repair dented legitimacy.
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06.23.14Bangladesh Woos China in Snub to West
Al Jazeera
India is likely to be watching closely as Sheikh Hasina bolsters ties with Beijing to repair dented legitimacy.
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02.12.14China Trade Growth Defies Signs of Slowdown
Bloomberg
The surprise jump in China's January Export-Import growth defies signs that the world’s second-largest economy is slowing but fuels fears of a recurrence of fake shipments.
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01.13.14China Claims Title of World's Top Trading Nation
Slate
Despite heavy investments in technology, aerospace, and autombiles, most Chinese trade is still in low-end goods.
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10.23.13China’s Arms Industry Makes Global Inroads
New York Times
Turkey’s selection of a Chinese state-owned manufacturer to supply long-range missile defense is a breakthrough for China, who has set its sights on moving up the value chain in arms technology and establishing itself as a credible competitor.&...
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10.23.13China Hints at Effort to Export Cars to West
New York Times
Requests for auto parts companies to supply parts that meet Western regulatory standards are the clearest sign yet that after more than a decade of preparation, Chinese manufacturers are feeling the confidence to begin...
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10.15.13The Vitamin C Cartel (Video)
New America
A Chinese cartel has come to control 100% of the Vitamin C that is contained in foods found in American supermarkets, an unprecedented circumstance which will have political and economic ramifications in the near future.
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09.26.13A Lot of U.S. Plastic Isn’t Actually Being Recycled Due to the Green Fence
Quartz
The US may have Save the Earth campaigns to thank for the embrace of recycling. But more likely, it was made possibly by China’s emergence as a manufacturing powerhouse. The more China made, the more it needed used plastics.
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09.12.13China Trade Rebounds in Further Sign Economy Stablizing
Bloomberg
China’s exports increased more than estimated in August and inflation stayed below a government target, helping Premier Li Keqiang sustain a rebound in the world’s second-largest economy from a two-quarter slowdown.
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08.29.13Why China’s Farms Are Failing
Atlantic
In the process of emerging as the globe’s manufacturing center, China has severely damaged its land and water resources, compromising its ability to increase food production for a wealthier population that’s demanding ever-more meat.
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07.25.13Africa Wants Jobs From China
Reuters
It is true China’s boom has brought many benefits to Africa. But in many countries, China’s demand for ore, timber and oil is forcing African states to specialise at the bottom of the value chain in areas with low productivity gains.&...
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07.16.13China Slump Ripples Globally
Wall Street Journal
As China hopes to reshape its economy to be less reliant on construction and heavy industry, and more reliant on consumer spending, the industries that benefited the most from China’s rise are now being hurt while those aimed at Chinese consumers...
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06.18.13What Paintbrush Makers Know About How to Beat China
New York Times
Chinese manufacturers long ago wreaked havoc on the U.S. textile, apparel, toy and electronics industries, but the disruption came slowly to the brush business. Companies have employed two strategies to stave off Chinese competition: 1)...
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04.15.13China Export Policy Chokes on Vitamin Verdict
Internet cafés covered by the city of Wuhan’s Internet Café Association agreed to set minimum prices for online access nearly a decade ago. And more than one hundred coking coal company-members of the Coke Association of Shanxi Province each agreed...
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12.24.12Yiwu's Purveyors of Christmas Tat Give China a Dose of Ho-Ho-Ho
Times & Sunday Times
China’s Christmas lights used to be only in Shanghai and Beijing, but now brisk sales are going to small provincial city shops.
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11.16.12China's 'Affluent' Population to Hit 280 Million by 2020
Wall Street Journal
As China tries to shift from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by consumption, it hopes to double its consumer base.
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11.06.12
Investment-Led Growth in China: Global Spillovers
Luo Xiaoyuan
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Over the past decade, China’s growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports has widened substantially. Several economies within China’s supply chain are increasingly exposed to its investment-led growth and...
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09.10.12Buyers Dry Up in China as Economy Slows
Wall Street Journal
China's soft August trade data could presage further weakness in its key export sector in the months ahead, suggesting that the world's No. 2 economy will continue to slow.The data released Monday showed that China's external and...
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08.24.12China Confronts Mounting Piles of Unsold Goods
New York Times
After three decades of torrid growth, China is encountering an unfamiliar problem with its newly struggling economy: a huge buildup of unsold goods that is cluttering shop floors, clogging car dealerships and filling factory warehouses.
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07.25.12WTO to Probe China's Rare-Earth Policies
Wall Street Journal
The World Trade Organization has set up a panel to probe China's rare-earth export policies, a widely expected move following requests by the U.S., the European Union and Japan, the trade body said in a report on its website Tuesday.The trade...
Environment
07.18.12China’s Overseas Food Footprint
from chinadialogue
For the last three decades, China’s factories have turned out goods for export markets, while Chinese citizens have paid the environmental price of industrialization in the pollution of their air and water and in the contamination of their land. But...
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07.01.11
People’s Republic of China: Spillover Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation and Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
This report discusses the outward effects of China’s economic policies on the rest of the world. The report does not try to capture the full extent and historical significance of China’s new influence on the world economy. Rather, it focuses on a...
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12.01.10
The Role of Trade Costs in Global Production Networks: Evidence from China’s Processing Trade Regime
World Bank
This paper uses data from China's processing trade regime to analyze the role of trade costs on trade within global production networks (GPNs). Under this regime, firms are granted duty exemptions on imported inputs as long as they are used...
Sinica Podcast
11.05.10
The Li Gang Scandal
from Sinica Podcast
A deadly hit-and-run at Hebei University by the unapologetic son of a high-ranking official has sparked outrage across China, with early efforts to cover up the incident ultimately leading to father and son both making tearful apologies on national...
Reports
09.21.10
China’s Steel Industry and Its Impact on the United States: Issues for Congress
Peony Lui
Congressional Research Service
China’s steel industry has grown significantly since the mid-1990s. China is now the world’s largest steelmaker and steel consumer. The majority of Chinese steel has been used to meet domestic demand in China. However, as its steel production...
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11.01.07
China's Changing Trade Elasticities
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
In recent years, much has been written about the China's rising current account surplus and the importance of its exchange rate policy. At the same time, the increasing integration of China into the global economy has raised questions about how...
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09.01.07
The Shifting Structure of China's Trade and Production
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
This paper uses disaggregated trade data to assess how the expansion of China's production capacity and its changing production structure may be affecting its trade linkages with other countries. It finds that China is moving away from...
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01.13.07
Is China a Threat to the U.S. Economy?
Peony Lui
Congressional Research Service
The rise of China from a poor, stagnant country to a major economic power within a time span of only twenty-eight years is often described by analysts as one of the greatest economic success stories in modern times. From 1979 (when economic reforms...
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01.04.07
China’s Trade with the United States and the World
Peony Lui
Congressional Research Service
As imports from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have surged in recent years, posing a threat to some U.S. industries and manufacturing employment, Congress has begun to focus on not only access to the Chinese market and intellectual property...