Of China, Korean Missile Defense and Makeup Sales Juli 28, 2017 Add Comment China, South Korea Edit AmorePacific owns several internationally well-known cosmetics brands--especially among PRC buyers. Whew! That post title is a bit of a mes... Read More
Hong Kong, London Vie to Fund One Belt, One Road Mei 17, 2017 Add Comment China, Development, Europe Edit Xi Jinping hawks OBOR to Filipino flunkies . Apparently, there are many of these sorts all over the world. So we may have expressed some dou... Read More
One Belt, One Baloney? PRC's Silk Road Revival Doubts Mei 14, 2017 Add Comment China, Development, South Asia, Southeast Asia Edit Over the weekend, Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted an elaborate event in Beijing concerning the PRC's idea of reviving the historica... Read More
Alibaba Buying MoneyGram: US Protectionism Revisited April 01, 2017 Add Comment China, Security Edit The use of "national security" grounds to discourage Chinese investment in the United States has been a recurrent issue for would-... Read More
PRC Hits S Korea Economically Over ABM System Maret 03, 2017 Add Comment China, South Korea, Trade Edit China's communists are getting back at South Korea economically over the deployment of a THAAD system. We are constantly reminded of th... Read More
PRC Stocks: China's Own Plunge Protection Team Januari 23, 2017 Add Comment China Edit Waning stocks? China has its own version of this fellow. Financial markets are not known to be an especially humorous topic given how much i... Read More
Taiwan's Tab for 21 States Still Recognizing It as "China" Januari 15, 2017 Add Comment China Edit Every country still recognizing Taiwan has its price--except perhaps for the Holy See. With the possible exception of the Vatican which does... Read More
Jack Ma & The Legend of Alibaba's 1M US Jobs Januari 11, 2017 Add Comment China, Internet Governance Edit The guy on the right can pretend to be a huckster like the guy on the left...when it suits. [DISCLAIMER: The blogger is an investor in Aliba... Read More
First Train Bound for London Leaves Yiwu, China Januari 03, 2017 Add Comment China, Trade Edit The land leg of the "One Belt, One Road" initiative keeps reaching farther. Your initial thought might be, "That post title i... Read More
Will 2016's Record PRC FDI in US Continue in 2017? Januari 02, 2017 Add Comment China, FDI Edit 2016 was a banner year for Chinese investment in the United States. Unbeknownst to many amid the China-bashing engaged in by Donald Trump an... Read More
2 Takes on Why China 'Wins' a Trade War with America Desember 29, 2016 Add Comment China, Trade Edit The premise of Donald Trump's China-bashing rhetoric is that the United States still holds all the good [trump?] cards in the global eco... Read More
No @#$%: China Stats are Admittedly Fictional Desember 08, 2016 Add Comment China Edit The incredible macroeconomic figures the PRC has released in recent decades year in and year out without fail beggar belief. Not only are th... Read More
From 1985 Plaza Accord to 2017 'Trump Tower Accord'? November 30, 2016 Add Comment China, Currencies Edit Like Macaulay Culkin, foreign exchange markets circa 2017 may need some direction from Trump. Too strong a US dollar is not usually good for... Read More
Duterte and the "People's Republic of the Philippines" Oktober 23, 2016 Add Comment China, Southeast Asia Edit Duterte claims the Philippines is now in the PRC's ideological flow. Take it with a whole heaping of salt. Friends abroad have asked me ... Read More
Venezuelan Oiler PDVSA: Debt Swap or Bankrupt Oktober 19, 2016 Add Comment China, Energy, Latin America Edit "Delay when we need to pay you back...or we'll default on Oct. 28!" Investor relations, Venezuela-style. When oil prices were ... Read More
Fortress Brexit: PRC Asks UK to Honor $23B Nuke Plant Deal Agustus 12, 2016 Add Comment China, Europe Edit The best laid plans for the PRC to build nuke plants in the UK go astray after Brexit. The United Kingdom's referendum outcome to separa... Read More
Why India Beat China to Homegrown Smartphone OS Juli 31, 2016 Add Comment China, India, Innovation Edit Indus OS accommodates the hundreds of millions of Indians who do not speak English. There's an article in Bloomberg that portrays the... Read More
Brexit's Biggest Loser: 'Superman' Li Ka-shing? Juli 02, 2016 Add Comment China, Europe Edit The person on the left is now trying to mitigate commercial damage from the person on the right's loyal subjects. Hong Kong tycoon Sir L... Read More