The Wall Street Journal this week observed that money is leaving China. It has been doing so off and on since the economic crisis began,… Read More
Trade and job creation came up in the presidential debate last night. A longstanding argument for blocking trade is that imports hurt jobs. This argument… Read More
Was it something the entire rest of the planet said? Late last Friday, the much-criticized government of India went from devaluing market-based economic reform at… Read More
Where is China’s incoming Communist Party chief, Xi Jinping? When he canceled a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, it was attributed to a… Read More
An ongoing sale of communications satellites to a Hong Kong–based company is attracting a great deal of attention at the moment. Space Systems/Loral, a major… Read More
China’s State Administration for Foreign Exchange is buying $1.5 billion worth of pension assets from General Motors. The assets are positions in funds held by… Read More
Those interested in whether China tells the truth about its economy should hold tightly to one fact: The State Statistical Bureau publishes what the Communist… Read More
Rare earths and other strategic minerals are front and center again, with a bill being brought to the House floor this week. When Members of… Read More
The House is considering new legislation concerning economic espionage. While the private sector should play the key role in combating this, there is bipartisan support… Read More
Both ends of the political spectrum seem to be competing to be tougher on China economic issues. They’re both wrong. Chinese policy does warp the… Read More
When Indian officials are pressed about their failed policies, they typically talk about their nation’s fundamentals still being sound. Most observers (even most critics) accept… Read More
A major political struggle in Japan is coming to a head this week, one that could empower the current government or ultimately bring it down…. Read More
The G-20 meetings in Mexico over the weekend might actually have accomplished something. Mexico was today invited to join the nine countries, including the U.S.,… Read More
China is taking over the world! A lot of people believe this. And a few very smart people point to China as being a huge… Read More
There is a lot going on in China today, this week, this month, this year. There’s internal Chinese politics. There’s U.S.–China politics. There’s concern about… Read More
China has the world’s second-largest GDP, the world’s largest monetary base, and the world’s largest foreign exchange reserves. Its large internal and external economic imbalances… Read More
Both The Washington Post and the Financial Times have more front-page stories today on the seemingly endless saga of the fall of senior Chinese Communist… Read More
Two years ago, the United States Department of Defense “discovered” mineral deposits in Afghanistan—gold, iron, copper, cobalt—that it claimed were worth almost $1 trillion. Actually,… Read More
The U.S., EU, and Japan are suing China in the World Trade Organization (WTO), calling Chinese export quotas on rare earth elements an illegal trade… Read More
If you heard that people based in a certain country completely compromised the computer systems of Nortel, a Canadian telecom firm that has since collapsed,… Read More
President Obama just announced plans to borrow millions of dollars from countries likeChinato create a new federal bureaucracy tasked with policing the trade practices of… Read More
Yesterday, the Department of the Treasury released an initial estimate of foreign holdings of U.S. securities, including Treasury bonds, as of June 30, 2011. This… Read More
The first step in solving a problem is admitting it. For years, the Chinese government and their defenders overseas insisted first that China was still… Read More
In 2004, the yuan ended the year 8.28 to the dollar. In 2011, it ended the year 6.31 to the dollar, a 24-percent rise. In… Read More
When the Chinese government is the sole source of information, how much of it should be believed? In terms of economic performance, not that much…. Read More
The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) relationship with Iran receives a good deal of attention. As the U.S. considers how to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons… Read More
A federal court this week barred the simultaneous application of anti-dumping and countervailing duties to imports from China, a practice begun by the Department of… Read More
Former Governor Jon Huntsman (R–UT) was at The Heritage Foundation this week answering policy questions. In his talk, he emphasized budget discipline, tax reform, and… Read More
A beleaguered Indian federal government tried last week to break out of its rut and boost what is finally recognized as a struggling Indian economy…. Read More
The political debate over China seems familiar because they’ve been on the political table for years. Is China taking American jobs? How cooperative is the People’s… Read More
