The front page of the New York Times today has an article on China building cleaner coal-fired plants. The title and the article are fairly… Read More
A Wall Street Journal headline today adds to a chorus of claims that China’s stimulus efforts are benefiting American business and the world economy. As… Read More
The Department of the Treasury has again declined to label China a currency manipulator. This will ruffle some feathers on the Congress, labor groups, certain… Read More
The New York Times today both informs and misleads on China’s role in the American economy. The Times headline warns, “China Slows Purchases of U.S…. Read More
A paper by Chinese central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan — arguing the world should move off the dollar system — has attracted much attention. Like… Read More
Chinese trade minister Chen Deming’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today chides the rest of the world on turning toward protectionism. This is remarkable… Read More
The Financial Times makes a valiant effort to curb wild talk about China dumping U.S. Treasury bonds. Luo Ping of the China Bank Regulatory Commission… Read More
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had a front-page story on soaring unemployment among China’s rural migrants. While official Chinese employment statistics are spotty, the gigantic figures… Read More
The Sino-American trade conflict I wrote on last month has just become more likely. Chinese trade numbers show exports declining and imports collapsing at the… Read More
In a few weeks, China will claim to have completed its economic survey and announce a growth rate for 2008. The only thing we know… Read More
The wire services have seized on a comment by a Chinese official that the PRC’s official foreign reserves actually fell in October. This is the… Read More
The realization that China is in no position to be especially helpful in coping with the financial crisis is finally beginning to sink in with… Read More
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about China’s defense of price fixing with potentially vital implications for American trade policy. A group of PRC… Read More
China announced economic results yesterday. The results are simultaneously good, bad, and completely unbelievable. The good: GDP growth was put at 9% in the third… Read More
