With the U.S. Commerce Department's preliminary decision to impose 31-percent anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese photovoltaic solar panels, some commentators warned that this is the first shot in a job-killing trade war with China. Prediction of a trade war is largely a dangerous myth.
Promoting exports while ignoring the negative impacts of imports has become an executive mantra in Washington. It's time to end that single-minded focus.
BEIJING, Feb 5 (Reuters) - China has a stake in helping the euro zone countries get through their debt crisis, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in co...
In our integrated global economy, no one is immune to the effects of a legacy of bad economic and fiscal policymaking in Washington and Brussels, least of all Beijing.
The world's biggest exporters, led by China, are ganging up on the United States in advance of the G20 meeting against quantitative easing. Free trade and globalization are grand ideas when the playing field is level, but it isn't.
Only timely U.S. government intervention on trade with China will forestall the demise of U.S. manufacturing. This is not protectionism, but wise competitive policy.
South Pacific, based on a collection of stories by James Michener, is a multifaceted piece. The plot is the thing in this play, although it is loaded with the requisite number of hit tunes.
A couple of weeks ago, Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric, complained indignantly about China's current and bitter hostility towa...
Strikes are breaking out throughout China; in virtually every case that has become publicly exposed, the employers have been forced to provide large pay rises as the price of ending the labor dispute.
Signs of revival on the factory floor emerged in the United States and Asia on Monday, fueling exultant buying on Wall Street and reinforcing a sense ...
The U.S. media strongly supports protections for copyrighted material like movies and music, but it isn't so sympathetic of trade cases involving manufactured goods, like Chinese-manufactured tires.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner heads to Beijing this weekend to urge Chinese leaders to fundamentally alter the export-oriente...
The heroic American middle class consumer -- weighed down by massive debt -- has ceased to be the key stimulus for global production, but don't expect Beijing to save the global economy any time soon.
In the world's biggest annual migration every Chinese New Year over one hundred million internal migrants take a break from their jobs and studies in ...
Faced with unemployment in expensive, unwelcoming urban environments, many migrants are getting an early start to their annual ritual of heading back to their home provinces for New Year.
Over the past couple of months, melamine has been heavy in the headlines... dairy products manufactured in China were intentionally contaminated with the chemical.
What I sense in China is an optimistic spirit of millions of young people. It is uplifting to be around -- whereas as much as I don't like to admit it, Ohio is depressing and depressed.
China's auto exports soared in the first 10 months of the year, according to Commerce Ministry figures, but revenues from passenger car sales overseas...