Since 2009, the US economic recovery has bumped along a course of recovery from the worst recession it has experienced since the 1930s. As a result, it has atte

China compiled its economic data for the first half of the year in less than two weeks. This is not nearly enough time to survey 1.36 billion people unless very

Coming so shortly on the heels of the subprime crisis, the debate over the debt ceiling and the budget deficit is the last straw. Senior Chinese officials are appalled at how the United States allows politics to trump financial stability

Since mid-May, the United States has lived on borrowed time as Washington has debated multiple deficit-plans before the Aug 2 deadline. After last-minute twists

Where is China stashing its $3.2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves? The answer to that question in the past, everyone agrees, has been mainly in U.S. dollar

Even as the debt crises in Europe and the United States loom large and the global economic recovery falters, inflation is making a comeback worldwide. Indeed, e

The Obama administration and Republican Congress have been engaged in a very difficult negotiation regarding raising the US debt limit. US debt will reach the $

China is America’s leading foreign creditor. It came as no surprise, then, that while traveling through Asia last week U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave strong assurances to Beijing that policymakers in Washington would soon reach an agreement raising the country’s debt ceiling.

Dr. Bottelier explains why China is having second thoughts on the US economic model and how the debt crisis has damaged US's international image.

In a public statement, China's biggest state owned news agency, Xinhua, pushes U.S. to start acting responsibly to deal with the debt crisis. Andy Brown, Beijing Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal evaluates China's options.