BEIJING | By Andy Xie via Caixin Magazine | As the U.S. continues to normalize interest rates, emerging economies become vulnerable. Brazil and India are at the eye of the storm, but China with its huge property bubble should be wary.
BEIJING | Calls to reform China’s one-child policy are growing, and the government should respond by considering the range of options available, Chinese economic magazine Caixin states. That would boost the economy by reshaping the demographic structure to support sustained growth.
BRATISLAVA | By Andrej Matisak | “Corruption is rampant. Giving bribes is not unusual. Do in Rome as Romans do. So many foreign companies have also followed the practice in China.”
BARCELONA | By CaixaBank research team | The credit provided by China’s financial system has grown at a very fast rate over the last few years, particularly in its so-called shadow banking system.
BEIJING | For Chinese economic magazine Caixin, well-managed sovereign investment companies are a trend China would do well to follow, given the size of the country’s foreign exchange reserves.
BEIJING | By Xia Huihan, via Caixin magazine | Chinese state-owned companies or SOEs should stop gaining muscle for the sake of the country’s economic health.
Iris Mir | By mid-June the National Audit Office of China released a report unexpectedly detailing the debts of 36 local governments. It unveiled the chilling figure of 3.3 trillion dollar in debt, by the end of 2012. A 13% higher than in 2010. Furthermore, the lack of stimulus investment plans is fuelling scepticism among those who expected the Asian dragon to keep the world economy afloat. Mostly because the priority for China now is to reorient its model of growth with ambitious programs like the new Co2 emissions exchange.
Keep in mind a new concept: Lionomics. An acronym that gives name to the ambitious process of economic reform the new Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang must bring forward.
BEIJING | By Qu Yunxu at Caixin | The European Commission is imposing a provisional anti-dumping tariff on Chinese solar panels until August. Beijing has launched an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation over European wine in China. What’s behind this war?
After a Chinese teenager defaced a stone sculpture in an ancient Egyptian Temple, an intense debate has sparked about travelers misbehavior and national shame. Chinese tourists increasingly are the main target for the world’s biggest hotels and tour companies. And they are big spenders: $102 billion on overseas trips last year, a 40 percent jump over 2011 spending. However, as some experts tell Ray Kwong, many consider a trip abroad more like a Spring Break to wildly indulge than a museum visit.