Capital in twenty-first century China
EconomyChinaWang FengEast Asia ForumChina’s inequality story received only scant attention in Thomas Piketty’s monumental new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Piketty drew data mostly from...
View ArticleChina sends minister to Taiwan
China's most senior official ever to visit Taiwan has arrived on the island to discuss setting up liaison offices, sparking angry confrontations between pro-independence protesters and riot police.The...
View ArticleChina state copper firm chief dies
The head of a $US2.0 billion ($A2.16 billion) Chinese copper producer fell to his death from a building, the firm has announced, and a state-run newspaper said he committed suicide following corruption...
View ArticleIraq puts China's hard power failings on display
EconomyChinaPeter CaiHollywood directors have unusually perceptive eyes for shifting geopolitical events. George Clooney produced and starred in a 2005 geopolitical thriller called Syriana, in which...
View ArticleA freer Chinese currency proving popular
China is making it easier to buy and sell its currency in order to expand trade and investment opportunities for the world's second largest national economy.China has taken gradual steps to free up...
View ArticleDon't take China for granted: ambassador
Chinese investor interest in Australia is growing but our ambassador to China is urging government and business not to take the relationship for granted.Frances Adamson says Chinese investors are aware...
View ArticleAust heads to world's biggest wargames
For the first time, Australian warships will exercise alongside ships from the Chinese navy in the world's biggest maritime exercise off Hawaii.This is Rimpac 14, the US-hosted biennial military...
View ArticleChina to set yuan clearing bank in Sydney
China will designate a clearing bank in Sydney for overseas trading of its yuan currency, a top Australian official said on Thursday as Beijing seeks to make the tightly-controlled unit more...
View ArticleAlibaba chooses NYSE for IPO
Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group Holdings has said it will list its American depositary shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'BABA'.The company unveiled the move in another...
View ArticleAbe's alarming assault on Japan's democracy
EconomyChinaPeter CaiArticle 9 of the Japanese Constitution is one of the most unique in the world. It states that Japanese people “forever” relinquish war as a sovereign right and renounce the threat...
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The flawed US indictment of Chinese hackers
EconomyChinaClaude BarfieldEast Asia ForumOn 19 May, the US charged five Chinese army officers with hacking into American companies in the first cyber-espionage case of its kind. In defending the...
View ArticleForeigners not pricing new buyers out of market: RBA
Reserve Bank Assistant Governor Christopher Kent has poured cold water on suggestions that foreign investment in the local property market has priced out first homebuyers.Mr Kent told the told the...
View ArticleChina a quick fix for Australia's infrastructure gap
Australia can fast-track Chinese investment in much-needed infrastructure projects by lifting the threshold at which foreign investment comes under scrutiny, and even setting up a co-owned fund, say...
View ArticleChinese economy shows signs of life
China's manufacturing sector showed signs of life in June, with two separate pieces of economic data showing activity rising in the month.Official data showed activity in China's manufacturing sector...
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Will China's anti-corruption campaign derail the economy?
EconomyChinaPeter CaiPresident Xi Jinping’s hardline anti-graft campaign has claimed the scalp of one of its highest ranking officials: General Xu Caihou, who held one of the most senior ranks in the...
View ArticleChina's yuan undervalued: Lew
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says China's yuan currency remains undervalued, a longstanding sore point that will be raised at next week's high-level bilateral negotiations in Beijing.Lew said that...
View ArticleThe truth about China's lies and statistics
EconomyChinaJohn LeeIt is well known that China’s official growth statistics are highly unreliable. Premier Le Keqiang once told the American ambassador at the time that official statistics were ‘man...
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Corruption is par for the course in China
EconomyChinaFergus RyanIn a country with just 10 per cent of the world’s arable land and 6 per cent of its water resources, golf is often viewed quite dimly. Because of its voracious appetite for land...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's trade warning: Can China coerce Australia?
EconomyChinaDarren LimLowy InterpreterHillary Clinton believes Australia is too economically dependent on China, warning that dependence could 'undermine your freedom of movement and your sovereignty —...
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Why China-Australia FTA may still be some way off
EconomyChinaJames LaurencesonLast week treasurer Joe Hockey, and trade minister Andrew Robb were in China for the inaugural Australia-China Strategic Economic Dialogue. These talks are one part of the...
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