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12.10.15Mission Improbable—Jack Ma, China’s Biggest E-Commerce Tycoon, Wants To Be a Media Mogul Too
Economist
Jack Ma, Alibaba’s billionaire boss, wants to be a global media mogul.
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12.09.15Walmart’s Imports From China Displaced 400,000 Jobs, a Study Says
New York Times
“Walmart is one of the major forces pulling imports into the United States.”
Conversation
12.09.15
Is China a Leader or Laggard on Climate Change?
As ongoing climate talks wind down at COP21 this week, participants in and observers of the summit in Paris wrote in to share their assessment of the message coming from the official delegation from China, currently the world’s largest emitter of...
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12.04.15China Box Office Hits $6.3 Billion for 2015, Marking 48 Percent Yearly Growth
Hollywood Reporter
Local Chinese films accounted for $3.7 billion (23.7 billion yuan), more than 59 percent of the total box office earnings for the year to date.
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12.04.15China’s Xi Pledges $60 Billion for Africa Development Over Three Years
Wall Street Journal
China’s trade with Africa grew to $222 billion last year, making it the continent’s top trade partner for the sixth straight year.
Conversation
12.03.15
Does the Renminbi’s Elevation to Global Currency Matter?
On November 30, the International Monetary Fund approved the Chinese renminbi, also known as the yuan, as one of the world’s leading currencies, underscoring the country’s rising global financial importance. What’s behind the decision and what...
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12.03.15China's Rich Face Criticism After Mark Zuckerberg's Charity Pledge
International Business Times
China has a fast growing number of super-rich -- it created 242 billionaires in the past year alone.
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12.01.15Can Beijing Sell Silk Road as a Marshall Plan Against Terror?
Wall Street Journal
China needs West’s buy-in on stabilizing effects of its Silk Road project.
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12.01.15China's Xi In Zimbabwe To Sign Power, Infrastructure Deals
Reuters
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Zimbabwe on Tuesday, the first visit by a Chinese leader since 1996.
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11.30.15China-Africa Summit: What To Look For Beyond The Hype And Hypocrisy
Mail & Guardian
The Africa-China summit will provide an opportunity to see how the Chinese President is responding to democratic developments in Africa.
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11.27.15Top 10 China Dependent Countries
Forbes
A list of the top 10 countries exporting to China and the year-to-date performance of their corresponding exchange traded funds.
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11.27.15China Stocks Hit Hard, Rest of World Shrugs
Reuters
Chinese shares slumped 5 percent on Friday, hit by regulatory and industrial sector worries, but the declines did not carry through to other major equity markets.
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11.27.15China to Build Naval Hub in Djibouti
Wall Street Journal
Beijing confirms for the first time plans for East African nation, already home to U.S. base.
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11.27.15China Bars Anastasia Lin, Miss World Canada (and Rights Advocate)
New York Times
A Chinese who moved to Canada as a kid, the charismatic Lin is a practitioner of Falun Gong, the spiritual movement China calls an “evil cult.”
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11.27.15Beware of China's Safety Record
New York Times
Chinese people have paid heavily for a flawed system. Now that Chinese-style construction and management are going global, what price is the world prepared to pay?
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11.25.15China Set to Pledge More Aid to Africa Ahead of Xi's Trip
Reuters
China is set to announce new aid to African nations when President Xi Jinping visits Zimbabwe and South Africa next month.
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11.25.15Chinese Investment in Africa Falls by 40%
Voice of America
China’s Commerce Ministry publicly admitted that Chinese investments to Africa had fallen by 40 percent in the first half of this year.
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11.24.15How China Conquered France’s Wine Country
New Republic
French connoisseurs sold the Chinese pomp and prestige, until they started manufacturing it themselves.
Caixin Media
11.24.15
China Eyes More Muscle for Market Supervision
Strengthening the People’s Bank of China’s regulatory clout is high on a list of suggestions for improving financial market oversight following last summer’s stock market crash.As supporters of the plan see it, no government institution is in a...
Conversation
11.24.15
The China Africa Relationship: Crossroads or Cliff?
As we approach the sixth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit in Johannesburg, we try better to understand the main issues that surely will arise when Chinese President Xi Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma meet on December 4...
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11.24.15China Wants to Build a High-Speed Rail Link to a Newly Open Iran
Quartz
China Railway has proposed a high-speed rail link that will carry both passengers and cargo between China and Iran.
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11.24.15China and U.S. Say They’ve Made Strides in Trade Talks
New York Times
The United States and China said that they had made progress on sticking points in trade.
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11.23.15China Seeks to Remove Provincial Barriers to Trade
Reuters
China will accelerate reforms to remove internal barriers to both foreign and domestic trade.
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11.20.15The Strange Case of 77 Blue-Collar Chinese Migrants That Kenya Is Calling “Cyber-Hackers”
Quartz
Their arrests are emblematic of a slowly brewing backlash against Chinese immigration to Africa.
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11.19.15Asia-Pacific Leaders See Trade as Solution to Economic, Security Troubles
Wall Street Journal
Leaders stay quiet on territorial disputes in South China Sea.
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11.18.15McDonald's China Heritage Outlet Criticised
BBC
The opening of a McDonald's outlet in the home of former Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-kuo in Hangzhou, China has sparked a controversy.
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11.18.15Yes, China E-Commerce Is Huge
Quartz
Here’s What Not To Do If You’re A Foreign Company Trying To Get in
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11.18.15China’s Banks Test U.S. Legal System
Wall Street Journal
Bank of China says turning over account records would violate Chinese law.
Conversation
11.18.15
How Can China’s Neighbors Make Progress at APEC?
Ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit next week, we asked a group of experts from China’s neighboring countries what they thought the main thrust of discussion in Manila should be. If host, the Philippines, under pressure from...
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11.17.15Morgan Stanley: Here's What We Like in China
CNBC
China's economic slowdown isn't spooking Morgan Stanley, which has its eye on the mainland's "new economy."
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11.16.15China Is Becoming a Supercomputing Powerhouse
Wall Street Journal
China is experiencing a supercomputing boom.
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11.13.15China's Dream Factory
Atlantic
The long arc of moviemaking history may not bend inevitably toward China, but it does lead away from Hollywood, whose rise and long dominance of the film industry was predicated on a series of conditions that no longer exist.
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11.13.15Shanghai Stock Exchange Vice Chairman Investigated
Wall Street Journal
China’s anti-corruption campaign pushed further into the financial sector with a government notice Friday that a vice chairman of the stock market regulatory agency is under investigation.
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11.12.15Media
11.12.15
Watch Frank Underwood Advertise China’s Black Friday
On November 11, at the stroke of midnight Beijing time, millions of Chinese sitting behind their computers or cradling their mobile phones began purchasing cell phones, handbags, and clothing at cutthroat prices. By the end of November 11, analysts...
Environment
11.11.15
China’s Bottled Water Industry to Exploit Tibetan Plateau
from chinadialogue
Tibet wants to bottle up much more of the region’s water resources, despite shrinking glaciers and the impact that exploitation of precious resources would have on neighboring countries.This week, the Tibet Autonomous Region’s government released a...
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11.11.15With Help from 007's Daniel Craig, how Alibaba Turned 11-11 into China's Biggest Shopping Day
Los Angeles Times
Online shopping and entertainment fused into a consumerist juggernaut.
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11.11.15Singles Day in China Draws New Suitors: Foreign Sellers
New York Times
“Double 11 is a really big part of my calendar.”
Media
11.10.15
Chinese Hits Miss Out on the Global Box Office
from China Film Insider
If he’d had the time after meeting American captains of industry in Seattle and Barack Obama at the White House, Chinese President Xi Jinping might have ducked out at the close of his United Nations appearance and into a New York movie theater to...
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11.10.15Forget Black Friday and Cyber Monday: 100m hoppers Splash out on China's Singles' Day
Guardian
Last year 27,000 merchants joined and Alibaba’s sites grossed £6.1b.
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11.10.15China to Philippines: No Sea Feud Talk at APEC Summit
Associated Press
“They said they hope that contentious issues will not be raised during APEC.”
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11.09.15A Chinese CEO's Mysterious Disappearance and the Startup Industry
Quartz
Li Dongpu, CEO and co-founder of car wash startup Wo Ai Xiche, has disappeared
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11.09.15China Has Passed Canada as the Biggest U.S. Trading Partner––Thanks to Oil Prices
Quartz
Crude oil, a key export for Canada, has dropped from a 2014 peak of $107 per barrel to just $44 today (Nov. 9)
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11.09.15The World — Including China — Is Unprepared for the Rise of China
Wall Street Journal
For the first time in centuries, China affects the global economy as much as it is affected by the global economy
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11.06.15Meeting With Taiwan Reflects Limits of China’s Checkbook
New York Times
For the past eight years, the Chinese government has showered its former enemies in Taiwan with economic gifts.
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11.06.15China Is on Track to Surpass U.S. as World's Biggest Movie Market by 2017
Los Angeles Times
Despite the recent economic slowdown in China, the country's film market is growing even faster than anticipated.
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11.03.15China Drafts New Film Industry Law
Variety
China has moved forward with a new film industry law intended to boost the sector and help Chinese companies compete internationally.
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11.02.15China Unveils Jetliner in Bid to Compete With Boeing, Airbus
Seattle Times
China is one of the biggest aviation markets but relies on Boeing and Airbus aircraft.
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11.02.15Did a Chinese Mogul Beat a Treasury Dept. Ban on Doing Business in the U.S.?
Al Jazeera
Records reveal NYC building is owned by company linked to man blacklisted for allegedly funding African dictators.
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11.02.15Ailing Europe Looking for 'Chinese Medicine'
CNBC
The Chinese have never seen so many European leaders beating their path to Beijing.
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11.02.15
How Far Have China’s Economic Reforms Come over the Past Year?
As the Chinese Communist Party leadership wrapped up its Fifth Plenum, the meeting at which the Party’s leadership set the Five Year Plan that will shape economic policy through 2020, what progress has been made on the “comprehensive deepening” of...
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10.30.15Apple to Power its Vast China Operations With Renewable Energy
chinadialogue
The US tech giant’s plans to generate over 2GW of low carbon electricity at its China operations could speed up the greening of the ‘world’s workshop’
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10.30.15
China’s Risky Oil Strategy in Africa’s Sahel Region
Chad is one of the poorest, most corrupt, and, increasingly, most volatile countries in Africa. A recent wave of suicide bombings, allegedly orchestrated by Boko Haram, killing 36 and injuring 50, highlights the perilous challenges of doing business...
Conversation
10.28.15
Making Waves in the South China Sea
Challenging China’s newly assertive behavior in the South China Sea, this week the U.S. Navy sailed some of its biggest ships inside the nine-dash line, exercising its claim to freedom of movement in international waters plied by billions in trade...
Features
10.27.15
Rich Man, Pu’er Man
“These men always have machetes,” shouts the driver. Through trees along an unpaved road, he spots a ramshackle hut, slows down, and warns his passengers: this is a checkpoint. It’s the only way to enforce rules in this part of the jungle, at the...
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10.27.15Criticism of the UK’s New Approach to China Is Misplaced
Diplomat
Wait for some evidence before assuming that only bad can come from good relations.
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10.27.15Where Does Britain Draw the Line with Saudi Arabia and China?
Guardian
UK economy needs the cash flowing in, but politicians should be wary of throwing out all principle in favour of business.
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10.27.15In the Race for Africa, India and China Aren’t All That Different
Quartz
During the third India-Africa Summit, Indian officials are working hard to differentiate their country from China.
Culture
10.26.15
Xi Jinping on What’s Wrong with Contemporary Chinese Culture
from China Film Insider
At the Beijing Forum on Literature and Art last October, President Xi Jinping spoke to a high-level audience of arts professionals about the role of arts and culture in China. The event, along with excerpts of the October 15, 2014 speech, given in...
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10.26.15India Is Spending Billions to Populate a Remote Area Claimed by China
Bloomberg
"If China is developing on their side of the territory, we should develop on our side."