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BEIJING/HONG KONG — China‘s central bank has told banks to strictly implement United Nations sanctions against North Korea, four sources told Reuters, amid U.S. concerns that Beijing has not been tough enough over Pyongyang’s repeated nuclear tests. Tensions between the United States and North Korea have ratcheted up after the sixth and most powerful nuclear test […] -
WASHINGTON—China’s manipulative trade practices and economic model represent an “unprecedented threat” to the world’s market-based economy and U.S. interests, said U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, in a speech on Sept. 18. It was the first major public speech given by Lighthizer, a long-term critic of China’s trade practices against the United States. Lighthizer told a […] -
TORONTO—The documentary “The China Hustle,” which premiered recently at the Toronto International Film Festival, shows how hundreds of Chinese companies listed on North American stock exchanges can cause billions of losses to investors due to lack of proper oversight. These Chinese firms enter the U.S. stock market through reverse takeovers with American companies and […] -
NEWS ANALYSIS As NAFTA negotiations with the United States show slow progress, a new survey shows that more Canadians want to increase trade relationships beyond the United States, with Europe and the U.K.—jurisdictions with similar democratic institutions as Canada—taking the top spots. China takes the fourth spot as the trade partner of choice, a finding […] -
China, the world’s largest e-commerce market, counts more than 400 million online shoppers even as half the country remains offline, but eager Canadian businesses face significant hurdles to gain market share. -
The former high-flying vice chairman of China’s top body for regulating stocks has been brought down, an action experts believe is preparation for the pivotal 19th Party Congress in October. Yao Gang, 55, was targeted in November 2015, five months after the mid-year stock crash. He is one of the highest-ranking officials disciplined for alleged […] -
The Chinese economy is strange in many ways. Not only is it a hybrid between private capital and state control, but very few people directly invest in the mainland — and yet everybody is interested in how the second largest economy in the world is going to develop. That’s because Chinese demand determines the prices of […]
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After a record amount of capital outflows from China in 2016, Beijing is looking to reverse course this year. -
The idea, at first, sounded good: Plow trillions of dollars into infrastructure projects in the barren wasteland that is most of central Asia, and trade will start to bloom, economies will prosper, and peace will reign. However, most experts believe real world problems will result in the whole idea turning into nothing but a pipe […] -
China’s first overseas military base—located at a critical chokepoint for global trade looking to navigate the Suez Canal—could be a geopolitical game changer, but it has less impact in military terms. Establishing the Djibouti base at the Horn of Africa signals the Chinese regime’s long-term strategic intentions, say experts. A Chinese Communist Party that once pledged […] -
A mysterious crash within an obscure corner of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has elicited regulatory scrutiny, fanned rumors of conspiracy, and renewed calls for reform in the city’s financial markets. -
HONG KONG—The financial empire of missing Chinese-born tycoon Xiao Jianhua has put billions of dollars of investments up for sale, including stakes in a life insurer, a trust and banking assets, three people involved in the process told Reuters. A billionaire with links to China’s Communist Party elite, Xiao vanished earlier this year. He was last seen in the early hours […] -
When the economy started to cool in the beginning of 2016, China opened up the debt spigots again to stimulate the economy. After the failed initiative with the stock market in 2015, Chinese central planners chose residential real estate again. And it worked. As mortgages made up 40.5 percent of new bank loans in 2016, […] -
After severe jitters in 2015 and 2016, the Chinese economy and its foreign exchange rate have been mostly stable in 2017. Except for volatility in interest rates and the stock market, everything seems fine ahead of the important Party Congress to be held this fall. At the congress, the regime will confirm the next Party […] -
China’s biggest foreign asset purchasers, including Wang Jianlin’s Wanda Group, are in regulator’s crosshairs amidst a Xi Jinping-led effort to root out corruption, reduce money laundering, and curb excessive risk-taking within China’s financial sector. -
In a move that stunned New York dealmakers at the time, the famed Waldorf Astoria hotel on Park Avenue was sold in 2014 to a little-known Chinese company. That Chinese company is Beijing-based Anbang Insurance Group, an insurance conglomerate known for its aggressive overseas asset purchases, including a failed 2016 bid to acquire Starwood Hotels and […] -
Geopolitical risk is running high despite all seeming well with U.S. stock markets, but evaluating broader trends, which include “de-globalization” and China’s economic transition on asset prices and inflation, is critical at this time. -
WASHINGTON—The United States appears poised to heighten scrutiny of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley to better shield sensitive technologies seen as vital to U.S. national security, current and former U.S. officials tell Reuters. Of particular concern is China’s interest in fields such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, which have increasingly attracted Chinese capital in […] -
Further adding to doubts about the health of China’s economy, statistics in Inner Mongolia and the northeastern province of Jilin have been found to be problematic, according to recent investigation by the Communist Party’s anti-corruption agency. Faked data was discovered in some firms and regions, according to a statement from the Central Commission for Discipline […] -
Beijing and Hong Kong approved a cross-border bond trading program, called bond connect, hoping to attract a new wave of foreign investors to buy Chinese onshore bonds.
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