Jan 07, 2015

Many commentators have noted Xi is the most powerful leader since Deng Xiaoping and even Mao Zedong. But a better comparison might be with the style and powers

Jan 06, 2015

The mysterious refusal of a Chinese property developer to pay back a lender ought to put the whole debt-investing neighbourhood on watch. Kaisa owes HSBC some H

Dec 24, 2014

China’s defense outlays may match those of the United States in 15 years. Meanwhile, America’s relative austerity paired with Russian aggression could force E

Dec 23, 2014

The penny is starting to drop for foreign investors in China. Two years into the leadership of President Xi Jinping, there’s little sign of the country opening

Dec 20, 2014

China is in need of history’s biggest spring clean. Two years of reforms have probably stopped the flow of undesirable conduct from increasing. To make behavio

Dec 19, 2014

Avon Products helps the plain look pretty. Now it is paying $135 million to U.S. authorities for doing something similar in China. The New York based cosmetics

Dec 19, 2014

How fast will China’s economy grow over the next two decades? Most economists predict that the People’s Republic will expand at a rate not much lower than it

Dec 13, 2014

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests were a positive failure. The 75-day occupation which ended on Dec. 11 failed to achieve the hoped-for democratic reforms. Bu

Dec 11, 2014

China’s gyrating stock markets are a reminder that movement matters. Volatility is increasing in the People’s Republic, and fighting it is a losing battle. Pr

Dec 05, 2014

What’s in a Chinese share price? Text books say it should be a function of risk-free rates, equity risk premiums and expectations of company earnings. In reali