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Clean and affordable private transportation is the element missing from so many urban plans for more climate-friendly living. With its rail system, public transportation, and abundance of electric two-wheelers, China is offering the developing world a model for transitioning into clean energy.
Dexter Tiff Robers began reporting on Chinese companies in the 1990s as they first emerged on the world stage and began raising money on Wall Street. But now, as five more SOEs announce NYSE delistings, he thinks China’s corporate giants seem to be departing the U.S. for good.
How did ByteDance, the face of China's global tech ambitions, become a cautionary tale about "toxic" work culture?
The release of ‘Shang-Chi’ during the pandemic is of no small import, as anti-Asian sentiment and incidences of anti-Asian hate in the U.S. and around the world continues to rise at an alarming rate.
Voters in Hong Kong and Taiwan went to the polls over the weekend, but the circumstances couldn’t be more different. Beijing released a white paper that talked glowingly about “universal suffrage” as the goal in Hong Kong, but included caveats that make clear it does not see the natural progression of democracy in the city as being anything like Taiwan’s experience.
“There is something major afoot in China right now,” says Kaiser Kuo, but single-lens analysis that lacks empathy won’t cut it in providing insight into the complexity of the changes. What The China Project has called the Red New Deal could mark the start of a new phase in Chinese history, and it deserves to be taken seriously and seen from multiple perspectives.
Chinese regulators' moves against car-hailing giant Didi six days after its IPO have confirmed the worst fears of some observers about the direction of U.S.-China financial ties. But while Chinese company listings on American markets now face significant obstacles, boatloads of money will continue to flow, both ways, across the Pacific.
A veteran observer of Hong Kong’s financial markets argues that the Chinese government’s moves this week against newly listed ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing augur a Great Financial Decoupling that will hit Hong Kong hard.
Huarong, a state-owned debt management company, indirectly owns shares in almost 80,000 Chinese companies. But as rumors swirl about Huarong's financial health, we need to scrutinize the entirety of China's larger state-owned financial sector.