A "Green Lining" in China's Economic Stimulus Plan
From the perspective of climate change, it is encouraging to see that a cleaner, more efficient approach continues to be a priority within China's overall industrial and employment goals.
From the perspective of climate change, it is encouraging to see that a cleaner, more efficient approach continues to be a priority within China's overall industrial and employment goals.
AP | Posted 12.31.2008 | Business
BEIJING — Chinese President Hu Jintao warned that China has started to lose its competitive edge in trade amid the global financial crisis, as h...
AP | SCOTT McDONALD | Posted 12.10.2008 | Business
BEIJING — China unveiled a $586 billion stimulus package Sunday in its biggest move to inoculate the world's fourth-largest economy against the ...
New York Times | David Barboza | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business
Each new forecast of China's economic fortunes predicts slower growth than the forecast that preceded it. Just as China attained supercharged growth ...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business
China's booming economy is cooling more rapidly than most forecasters had expected, undermining hopes that Chinese demand could help keep the global e...
Michael Standaert | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business
China is in an advantageous position thanks to its $1.81 trillion in foreign reserves and could emerge as a provider of loans, but it's hard to foresee any messianic bailouts.
Eric Margolis | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
McCain's insistent claims that the US is winning the war in Iraq thanks to his "surge" strategy is the military-political equivalent of the junk securities that Wall Street's shady financiers have been peddling.
Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business
Developing countries including China and India, where red-hot growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in recent years, are sho...
Anu Bradford | Posted 08.09.2008 | Business
China's new antimonopoly law reflects the resurgence of protectionist sentiments in China following the increase in foreign acquisitions of Chinese corporations. How should the US respond?
Hongmei Li | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
Hu Jintao, at many occasions stressed the importance of hosting a successful Olympics in Beijing. The Chinese government sees the Games as a war that must be won.
Jeremy Haft | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business
If the U.S. economy is slipping into a recession that will ripple out into the global economy, then that ripple will stop at China's shore. China's demand will help absorb the shock of our solvency crisis.
AFP | Rob Lever | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business
China's economy will overtake that of the United States by 2035 and be twice its size by midcentury, a study released Tuesday by a US research organiz...
Jeremy Haft | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
The rash of product recalls reveals that China is not the manufacturing juggernaut we fear -- and that America has an edge we tend to overlook.
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
Once it was Japan that threatened to be the major technological rival to the U.S. Now that trophy goes to China and its rapid climb from a low-cost producer to a high-tech inventive nation.
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business
For energy, motivation and raw talent, American entrepreneurs cannot compare to their Chinese counterparts. No wonder investors from the U.S. are looking for the next Steve Jobs in the Middle Kingdom.
New York Times | Keith Bradsher | Posted 06.14.2008 | Green
HONG KONG -- After rising steeply for many years, emissions of three important pollutants began to decline last year, China's Ministry of Environmenta...
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 06.05.2008 | Business
China is becoming a lab for the world; by 2009, China's position will rise to 4th globally for new patent applications, right after the US, Japan and Germany.
AP | Posted 05.19.2008 | Business
BEIJING — China has established a homegrown company to make passenger jumbo jets, state media reported Sunday _ a step forward in the country's ...
TreeHugger | Alex Pasternack | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The Chinese government will invest 1.35 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) each year for the next three years in environmental protection, or...
Deborah Seligsohn | Posted 01.01.2009 | Green