A report released on April 17 has revealed that 16.1 percent of China's soil and nearly one-fifth of its arable land had been contaminated, largely by heavy metals such as cadmium, nickel and arsenic. ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
Years of guesstimates as to when China will surpass the United States and become the world's largest economy came to a jolting halt last week when the Financial Times, using figures released by the Wo ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
The end of China’s 14-month-long freeze in initial public offerings in January, following reforms initiated by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, has been accompanied by a flurry of listings ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-22
Two years after the United States, the European Union and Japan filed a complaint in the World Trade Organization (WTO) against China’s export restrictions on rare earths, the WTO issued a panel repor ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-15
President Xi Jinping’s proposal that China and the European Union explore a free trade agreement is a sign of Europe’s pivotal role in the trilateral economic relationship among the United States, the ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-08
Over the past 35 years, China has mesmerized the world as it transformed itself from one of the world’s poorest countries into its second largest economy and top trading nation. Now, another transform ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-01
In 2010, when China-India trade was on a roll, the two countries set a goal to boost the bilateral figure to US$100 billion by 2015. Indeed, in 2011, trade rose to US$74 billion, a 23 percent increase ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-25
President Xi Jinping will embark Saturday on his first visit to Europe since taking office a year ago, aiming to enhance economic ties between China and the European Union. Foreign Minister Wang Yi, a ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-18
The world is courting Africa, and about time too. The United States has fallen way behind China and is now trying to make up lost ground. Meanwhile, other emerging economies, led by China, are strengt ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-11
In 2008, after Ma Ying-jeou was elected president, he halted the political war over sovereignty between Taiwan and mainland China and focused on improving cross-strait relations. Dialogue with the mai ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-19
Business leaders, it seems, are increasingly worried about the continuing hostility between China and Japan. The New York Times reported that at the World Economic Forum in Davos, despite general opti ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-11
Last month, China disclosed figures for 2013 confirming that it had replaced the United States as the world’s largest trading nation, with the country passing another milestone in its march towards su ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-04
The deterioration in political relations between China and Japan, which saw bilateral trade drop in 2012 after Tokyo nationalized three tiny islands also claimed by Beijing, caused further damage to m ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-21
China has made a revised bid to join the Government Procurement Agreement of the World Trade Organization, less than three weeks after promising the United States that it would do so some time this ye ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-15
For the first time since it came into existence in 1995, the World Trade Organization in December finally achieved a breakthrough, reaching a series of agreements to streamline trade that are expected ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-31
Checkbook diplomacy as an instrument of policy between Taiwan and mainland China hasn’t been used in at least five years, but a somewhat similar type of diplomacy is now emerging as China and Japan bo ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-23
The world’s trade structure has changed dramatically over the past decade, with China having replaced the United States last year as the biggest trading nation. As recently as 2006, the US was the mos ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-17
British Prime Minister David Cameron was fêted by China’s leaders during his three-day trip to the country but much of his diet consisted of humble pie, which he manfully swallowed, pointing to “a vis ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-10
China’s announcement of an East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone effectively took hostage the world’s multibillion-dollar airline industry. An airline’s first responsibility is the safety of ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-03
More than three decades ago, Deng Xiaoping, who later became known as the chief architect of China’s reforms, decided to focus on economic development through pragmatic experimentation, with the count ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-28
