Mar 26, 2015

As former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell famously advised, China favors “overwhelming force” in its campaigns, military or otherwise. Most recently, in

Mar 25, 2015

Chinese investors have a powerful attraction to companies in the European Union, and their targets are increasingly high-profile. In recent days, they’ve shown

Mar 21, 2015

Competition between the world’s two greatest economic powers is both inevitable and (for the most part) beneficial. This is the case even when China and the U.

Mar 17, 2015

Can Asia beat the rising-dollar curse? The question is far from academic considering the central role that a strengthening U.S. currency played in sparking the

Mar 13, 2015

As if Zhou Xiaochuan didn’t have enough to worry about, China’s central bank governor now has a bitcoin problem on his hands. In a new report, Goldman Sachs s

Mar 12, 2015

The currency wars are still rumbling on. Today, Thailand became at least the 21st country to cut interest rates so far this year, as everyone tries to make thei

Mar 10, 2015

China’s second interest-rate cut in three months has raised fears that the government is trying to devalue the yuan to give its exports an unfair boost — an u

Mar 06, 2015

China’s decision to lower its annual GDP growth target to “around 7 percent” — the lowest level in 15 years — is understandably dominating headlines this m

Feb 28, 2015

As China slows down, leaders in Beijing are understandably turning to one of their favored growth stabilizers: housing. A record decline in new-home prices in J

Feb 27, 2015

Three hundred Chinese citizens, members of the country’s Uighur ethnic group, have recently traveled to the Middle East to join Islamic State. Those Uighurs ar