Geopolitics dominates the rhetoric on climate change in Washington D.C., but the developing world needs renewable energy, not debt and lectures on what a baddie China is.
China is neither laying a debt trap nor building a lot of fossil projects in Africa. Rather, it's been relatively generous with debt relief, and in developing Africa’s renewable energy capabilities, argues Kenyan economist Anzetse Were.
Chinese EV firms are investing in countries with Free Trade Agreements with Washington to gain access to America’s market and avoid growing opposition to Chinese direct investment on U.S. soil.
ByteDance is financed by billions of dollars from global — in particular American — investors. This complicates the conventional notion of ByteDance being a ‘Chinese company.’
For years, China’s sovereign wealth fund has made investments in large private American investment funds that finance startups and companies working on strategic or sensitive technology in the U.S. — but regulators have yet to investigate these activities.
2022 was a tough year for the ‘Big Fund’ that was set up to make China’s semiconductor industry self-reliant, but it rounded out the year with an investment in a silicon wafer manufacturer, and is set to ramp up big time in 2023.
A new batch of vouchers to stimulate consumption is being issued across China. As the country emerges from COVID zero, and with exports, investment, and consumption all down, can the program get China’s economy out of the doldrums?
Cosco Shipping has just acquired a large stake in Hamburg Port, and is making billions in a downward-trending shipping freight market.
Chinese pharma companies have high hopes of dominating the future of new drug development. But developing innovative treatments is costly and time-consuming, and investors don’t seem to have the necessary patience.
An obscure Hong Kong financial services company and its controversial founder caused an uproar on Wall Street this week after its stock shot up 14,000%. Can it possibly be legit?