Full Contents - October 2006


PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]

  • In bed with the oil bandits

  • Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez swung into Beijing offering to double oil exports to China within three years. Can his deeds match up to his rhetoric?

  • A trade row waged with heart and sole

  • Divisions over anti-dumping duties on Asian footwear in Europe have set shoemakers against non-shoemakers and trade advocates against protectionists. The results are messy

  • Looking to another kind of liquidity

  • Water, not air pollution, is the key environmental challenge China faces over the next decade. Hopefully, the recent drought pushes Beijing into action

  • Legislating for a rainy day

  • China is enacting important new laws that have the potential to soften any economic troubles in years to come. The question is whether they will be properly enforced

  • A leap into the unknown

  • The response to Mao: The Unknown Story poses testing questions on how international publishers sell China

COMMENTARY

REVIEW

  • Mess-up beyond metaphor

  • New US export control regulations could boost China's high-tech trade with everyone - except the US

  • Responsible returns

  • International organizations are trying to spread the word of corporate social responsibility among Chinese firms

  • Spawn of subsidy

  • A new study portraying China's steel industry as artificially propped up by government intervention could be the prelude to an anti-dumping action

  • Cashing in on culture

  • Sales of Chinese art are booming. Domestic collectors didn't kick-start the market for contemporary works but they have the cash to dominate it

  • Latin lack of focus

  • China could be a good source of investment for Latin American countries, but governments there don't have their eyes on the ball

  • The waiting game

  • American holders of unpaid 90-year-old Chinese bonds are looking for ways to get their money. Suing the ratings agencies is the latest tactic

  • Restless giant

  • China Mobile's efforts to go global have been thwarted by the paucity of the foreign firms on offer. So why not just stay at home?

CULTURE

Book Review

  • BOOK REVIEW / China's development trap

  • Minxin Pei, director of the China program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, uses the analytical machinery of political science to craft his most recent book, China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy.

Travels to the West

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