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The Tianjin explosion may hurt the city’s economy. But it will hurt its corrupt officials more.
The history of a city that went up in flames.
What is it about northeast Asia? Why is it that a part of the world that is a byword for unparalleled economic development and astounding social transformation can’t come to terms with its past and develop…
With Blue Note Jazz Club opening a venue in Beijing, a genre that’s flagging stateside may experience a Far East revival.
In the West, it is often forgotten that 1945 marks the end of not only the second world war but also of a much longer period of political and social upheaval in Asia.
China’s interventions to cheapen its currency relative to others will hurt US imports in the short term, but the country’s surging “mainstream” will easily offset the impact.
The US may not like it, but by devaluing the yuan the People’s Bank of China has done what longtime critics of China’s currency policy have long been clamouring for.
Why the Chinese yuan took its biggest one-day loss in two decades.
Whatever China’s policymakers do these days matters a lot, and not just to the denizens of the People’s Republic. On the contrary, for better or worse what happens in China has a powerful and often immediate…
China can go into the 2022 Winter Olympics with a sense of ‘been there, done that’.
What has Beijing gotten itself into?
For all its muscle, the Chinese government could make the problem worse by intervening in the stock market.
The International Olympic Committee will choose between two non-democratic countries – China and Kazakhstan – for the 2022 Winter Olympics. A sign of things to come?
As China’s markets stabilise the net result will probably be a transfer of wealth from ordinary Chinese to the wealthy.
When it comes to advertising luxury brands, marketers tend to see the world as one homogenous lump. It’s time they wised up.
Exporters like Australia’s trade agreements, but the public will take more convincing on the benefits.
Shadow banking has helped fuel continued Chinese economic growth. But it could come back to bite if not brought into line.
The singer-songwriter has signed deals with two Chinese retailers to sell authentic merchandise in the country in hopes of stemming the tide of knockoffs.
Foreign policy occupied a surprisingly prominent and controversial place at the ALP national conference. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the most contentious topic was asylum seeker policy – an issue that invariably…
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