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AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Video, Chinese-Companies, Amc, Dalian Wanda Group Amc, Dalian Wanda Group, Business News, Movie Theaters, Amc-Movie-Theaters, China Economy, Ap, Business News

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China'...

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Welcome to the G-Zero Era

Ian Bremmer | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Pivot States, John Baird, Taiwan, Turkey, Brazil, Ma Ying-Jeou, China Economy, China, Emerging Markets, Nato Summit 2012, Business News
Ian Bremmer

In years to come, every nation will have to create its own options because there will be no government with the muscle to drive an international agenda. Some countries are better positioned than others to prosper in this decentralized global order.

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The Answer Isn't Socialism; It's Capitalism That Better Spreads the Benefits of the Productivity Revolution

Robert Reich | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Joblessness, Socialism, Francois Hollande French Election, Francois Hollande, China Economy, Business News
Robert Reich

We don't need socialism. We need a capitalism that works for the vast majority. The productivity revolution should be making our lives better -- not poorer and more insecure. And it will do that when we have the political will to spread its benefits.

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The End of Growth

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Global Economy, Oil, China Economy, Oil Prices, Gas Prices, Economy, Business News
Jeffrey Rubin

When the price of oil goes up, something has to give. Right now, the European Monetary Union looks to be the most imminent casualty.

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The System Isn't Broken; It Was Built This Way

Carl Gibson | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Foxconn, Humanity, Manufacturing, Sustainability, Capitalism, China Economy, China, The Venus Project, Work Conditions, Environmental Regulation, Environmentalism, Financial Regulation, Business News
Carl Gibson

Where in the world can we go to get an accurate picture of where capitalism will inevitably lead us 20 to 30 years down the road? Communist China, ironically.

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Bangladesh's Rising Income Potential

Nake M. Kamrany | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Bangladesh, Bangladesh Growth, Bangladesh Economy, Bangladesh Economic Growth, Bangaldesh Foreign Investment, India China, Bangladesh India Relations, Bangladesh India Trade, China Economy, World News
Nake M. Kamrany

Bangladesh is poised to follow China and India's recent growth pattern of rising per capita income, with its impressive growth performance of per capita income averaging and reduced population growth rate.

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Emerging Markets Lead in Job Recovery

Otaviano Canuto | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Financial Crisis, Jobs, Developing Countries, China Economy, China, World Bank, World News
Otaviano Canuto

So far, from Brazil to Russia and from China to South Africa, labor markets have proven resilient to sluggish GDP growth. But there is no better ally of employment than strong, dynamic and inclusive growth. We are still far away from getting that.

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Ex-Goldman Sachs Banker Confident He Can Beat Chinese Stock Market

Reuters | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Chinese-Stock-Market, Video, China Stocks, Wall Street, Quant Funds, Quants, Reuters, Ex Wall Streeters Chinese Markets, Business News, China Economy, Ex Wall Streeters, Business News

By Samuel Shen and Kazunori Takada SHANGHAI, April 16 (Reuters) - Ex-Wall Street bankers are betting science can explo...

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BRICs Are Building a Wall Around the Poor Despite Rapid Growth

James Doran | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Russia, Brics, India, Goldman Sachs, New Delhi, Brazil, Development, China Economy, China, Developing Countries, Income Inequality, Global Poverty, Business News
James Doran

Whatever economic miracle is sweeping big Chinese cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, it has given Loong Poon Lei, and hundreds of other villages, a wide berth.

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The Frog and the Scorpion

Conn Hallinan | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Socialism, Bo Xiali, Capitalism, Wen Jiabao, China, China Poverty, China Economy, China Human Rights, World News
Conn Hallinan

Global capitalism -- including in China, despite its self-styled socialism with Chinese characteristics" -- is in its most severe crisis since the great crash of the 1930s. The question is, can any country make a system with serious built-in flaws function for all of its people?

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Why China Can't Cut Off North Korea

Victor Cha | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Book News, North Korea International Relations, China Politics, China Politics Book, North Korea Foreign Relations, China North Korea, North Korea Economy, China Foreign Relations, China Book, China Economy, China International Relations, Books News
Victor Cha

North Korea's latest threats of a rocket test beg the question of why China does not do more to stop its little communist brother from acting so rancorously. After all, there is no other country in the world that provides as much food and fuel to the regime.

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Why Chinese Workers May Be Getting Paid More

AP | JOE McDONALD and MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Apple-Foxconn-China, Video, Apple, Chinese Workers, Labor-News, Business News, Foxconn, Apple Foxconn Pledge, China Wages, China Economy, China, Apple Foxconn, Apple-Foxconn-Controversy, Business News

BEIJING — Consumers probably won't have to pay more for iPads, iPhones and other popular consumer electronics despite a Chinese company's pledge...

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As Cheap Chinese Labor Gets More Expensive, Companies Consider Moving Elsewhere

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Video, Chinese Workers, Labor Costs, China Labor, Reuters, Business News, Outsourcing to China, Chinese Skilled Workers, China Economy, China, Business News

By Lucy Hornby and Don Durfee BEIJING, March 26 (Reuters) - U.S. lawnmower manufacturer Briggs & Stratton is used to worrying abou...

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Will China Rule the World?

Daron Acemoglu | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Xi Jinping, China Economy, China, World News
Daron Acemoglu

Unless China fundamentally reforms its political institutions, a change that seems unlikely in the short term, a trajectory of economic growth followed by relative decline is more likely than a trajectory of long-term increasing prosperity.

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The China Syndrome

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: U.S. China Trade, Free Trade, China Economy, China, Business News
Jerry Jasinowski

President Obama seems determined to make China's trade policies a major theme of his reelection campaign, and if so, I say bring it on. China's predatory trade policies have been a key factor in the weakness of our overall economy.

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Chinese Government to Clean the Capital's Air -- Everyone Else, Good Luck

John C.K. Daly | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: China, China Clean Air, China Energy Production, China Coal, China Energy Consumption, China Pollution, China Economy, Green News
John C.K. Daly

China's leadership should glance back over their egalitarian Communist shoulders and realize that if clean air is good enough for Beijing, it's good enough for the comrades in the rest of the country too.

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A Pritzker Prize With Chinese Characteristics

Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Hu Jintao, Chinese Culture, Architecture, Chinese Government, Wang Shu, China Economy, China, Pritzker Prize, Arts News
Julian Baird Gewirtz

Wang Shu's work stands for, and the Pritzker jury statement sides with, one set of possibilities for China's future -- bold, forward-thinking development that is tempered by awareness of China's remarkable and distinctive past.

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China or Greece: Whose Economy Should We Fear?

Claude Ohanesian | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Competition, Greece Economy, Eurozone Crisis, China Economy, Business News
Claude Ohanesian

Much has been written about Greece's financial doom and the domino effect it will have on Europe's and possibly America's economy. I've never liked playing dominos. I prefer to find solutions to problems before there are consequences.

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The Cost Of Hiring A Factory Worker In The U.S. Vs. China

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Insourcing, Video, Workers, Germany, Insourcing American Jobs, Factory Workers, Chinese Economy, Manufacturing, United States, China Economy, China, Business News

Since 2001, the United States has lost 2.8 million manufacturing jobs to China -- that despite U.S. factory workers being far more productive. Par...

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China on Your Mind?

Valerie Berset-Price | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: SBA Loans, Export-Import Bank, International Business, US Exports, China Economy, Exports, Business News
Valerie Berset-Price

While it's true that many other countries do not receive as much press as PRC, international economists have identified 11 fast-growing regions where a hungry new middle class is in the making.

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Classic American Brand: We Like China Better

Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Uniqlo, Video, Gdp, The Gap, Retail Sales, China Economy, Business News

Not satisfied with what they've found at home, a classic American brand is looking overseas to feed its need for sales. The Gap is planning on open...

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America's Decline in the Chinese Century -- Red Alert Book Review

James Grundvig | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Stephen Leeb, US China Relations, Red Alert, China Power, China Economy, Ann Lee, China, Books News
James Grundvig

Although they start on different tracks in their books, they arrive at the same stark truth: If the U.S. does nothing to combat its inertia it will lose the century. Then the U.S. will join other lost empires, from Egypt and Rome in the ancient world, to Spain and England, as historical footnotes.

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Kitchen Sink Laundry Lists and Broken Clocks

John Wagner Givens | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Corruption, Income Inequality, Rule of Law, Overheating, Democracy, Tibet, China Currency, China Human Rights, Uighurs, Land Grab, Intellectual Property, Trade Deficit, Unemployment, Inflation, Falun Gong, China Economy, China, Housing Bubble, World News
John Wagner Givens

Corruption perceptions indices suggest that China is not especially corrupt for its level of development and actually does better than many more developed countries, including Russia, Argentina, and Mexico.

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Can Manufacturing Jobs Come Back? What We Should Learn From Apple and Foxconn

David Paul | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Walmart, W. Edwards Deming, Japan, Manufacturing Jobs, Ipad, Iphone, National Science Foundation, Outsourcing, Amazon.com, Ross Perot, Denis Kucinich, Joseph Stiglitz, Steve Jobs Apple, Insourcing American Jobs, Great Recession, Foxconn, China Economy, Great Depression, Deng Xiaoping, Clint Eastwood Super Bowl Commercial, Business News
David Paul

If Americans care about where their products are made, companies will care. Therefore, even as the president promoted tax credits for insourcing -- the new word for bringing those jobs back -- perhaps another step would be to build on the power of choice.

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China To Publish Sensitive Data On Income Inequality

AP | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Business News, Video, China Wealth Gap, China Economy, Income Inequality, China, Wealth Gap, China Income Inequality, Business News

BEIJING -- Chinese state media say the government plans to conduct a nationwide income survey to help it calculate a politically sensitive measure of ...

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