Five years after the global climate change summit in Copenhagen, when the United States and China failed to reach a binding agreement, the situation has improved though much remains to be done if the ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-24
Last month’s US$400 billion, 30-year deal on natural gas between China and Russia, the biggest such deal ever, has implications beyond energy resources and bilateral relations. For one thing, it reaff ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-18
Last autumn, half a year after assuming office as China’s president, Xi Jinping invoked the ancient Silk Road of the Han dynasty 2,000 years ago and called for the forging of contemporary trading rout ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-10
The decision by the United States to indict five officers of the Chinese military on May 19 for commercial cyber-espionage is unprecedented and appears to stem from political rather than economic reas ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-03
The huge China-Russia deal on natural gas, which is being hailed as a milestone in the development of relations between the two countries, is likely in the long run to be positive for East Asia and fo ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
Premier Li Keqiang made headlines during his eight-day trip to Africa this month by promising that China will increase aid to the continent by US$12 billion and by predicting that bilateral trade will ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-21
A week after new World Bank figures indicated that China would overtake the United States this year to become the No. 1 economy comes the news that, for the first time, the world’s three biggest publi ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
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
