Watching the numbers
By China Economic Review I was on a flight to Shanghai last week and sitting next to me were two ladies from Taiwan who spent the entire flight poring over…
By China Economic Review I was on a flight to Shanghai last week and sitting next to me were two ladies from Taiwan who spent the entire flight poring over…
By China Economic Review Hong Kong's role in the present and future of China, beyond the purely economic, is tantilizingly becoming clearer Hong Kong's new annual ritual of a march…
By China Economic Review And not for the usual cross-strait reasons; Chinese officials unofficially seem to believe it would better if George W. Bush was not president As the crucial…
By China Economic Review The taxi trade anywhere is a direct link to the real local economy. Taxi drivers feel the pulse of a city, and their takings reflect whether…
By China Economic Review It was interesting to see even the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences predicting in mid-October that the GDP growth rate for 2004 would probably end up…
By China Economic Review Japan is increasingly aware of the rise of China, and both paranoid about its implications and determined to participate in and benefit from the trend. The…
By China Economic Review After which the question becomes, what happens when it happens? A revaluation of the renminbi now seems to have moved from the probable to the inevitable,…
By China Economic Review Japanese need to get with the program, as China has Japan has a GDP roughly four times China's, but it is a country which looked at…
By China Economic Review Plan to convert old British consulate rivals news that old state enterprise bosses have converted too The Bund in Shanghai was the heart of the old…
By China Economic Review I was in Lanzhou city over a weekend, and went for a walk on a Sunday morning grey with smog. The streets were empty and uninteresting,…