China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) this week offered to buy Canada’s Nexen, Inc., for $15 billion. Nexen’s board is recommending the bid to share

It is hard to imagine that China could one day lead the world in going green when you look at the smog-filled skies that are everyday reality there. The governm

The “plum rain” that envelops Shanghai every summer – a confusing mix of drizzle, fog and smog – is a handy metaphor for the murkiness that currently enshro

This is significant for human society.  In the past 20 years, though achievements have been made in the areas of education, alleviation of poverty etc., the pr

China’s rapid economic growth over the past decade is often contributed to demographic dividend. According to the data from the World Bank, the structural adva

Some scholars have attributed the current slowdown in China’s economic growth and rise in national debt ratio to the disappearance of the demographic dividend

At the top of the agenda at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue, the major annual security forum in the Asia-Pacific region, were conflicts in the South China Sea

China has become in the last few years the world’s largest emitter of CO2, followed closely by the USA. It has a voracious use of natural resources – most fro

One of the few bright spots in recent international negotiations to replace the expiring 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ha

During the BRICS Summit in New Delhi on April 8 2012, the leaders of the five developing countries agreed to “enhance intra-BRICS trade” and agreed on an acco