HOUSE EDITORIAL

Consumer

Melamine intolerant: Doubts over China-made products return

The emergence of yet another tainted milk scandal in China begs the same old questions about quality control... >>more...

Politics & Society

Pragmatism at risk

There is more to the recent squabbles between the US and China than simple economic interest... >>more...

Business Education

Upward mobility

Better business education is what China, and the rest of the world, needs... >>more...

Consumer

Number crunching

China's retail sales figures could mean anything you want them to mean... >>more...

Economics & Trade

Making an exit

With the market temporarily rising, our funds take the money and run... >>more...

Politics & Society

Hunkering down

Beijing will need a clearer plan if it hopes to avoid unrest... >>more...

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EDITORS' JOURNAL

Markets

Capitalist Roader Fund: No one's having a good time (HOLD)

The week ends poorly for the Roader's portfolio and the stock market as a whole, but the Roader isn't ready to fold just yet >>more...

Economics & Trade

The globalizer: Romano Prodi on the Chinese welfare state

Romano Prodi spoke to reporters at CEIBS about why Greece is nothing to worry about, the lessons China should learn from southern European welfare states, and how to decouple >>more...

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COLUMNISTS

Business Education

Casing the joint

Establishing a joint venture MBA program in China takes more than opening the door... >>more...

Investment

Missing out on the inside track

Made in China: Secrets of China's Dynamic Entrepreneurs... >>more...

Travel & Leisure

Rural returnees

Graham Earnshaw walks west from Shanghai when he has the time, always starting from the last place he stopped. This month we find him just west of Shuangtu township in Chongqing municipality... >>more...

Economics & Trade

Signs of stablization

Tentative evidence suggests that China's economy can recover in the second half of the year, says CLSA's Andy Rothman... >>more...

Economics & Trade

The jobless masses

An educated unemployed worker is more of a concern than one whose horizons end at the farm gate, says our Beijing-based China watcher... >>more...

Economics & Trade

Impact winter

Manufacturer uncertainty threatens even the most robust supply chains,... >>more...

Economics & Trade

Magic 8

A few months ago, as analysts fought to drop their GDP forecasts to new lows, few people believed that China would hit the magic figure of 8% growth this year. With signs that the construction meltdown is bottoming out, we can expect those same analysts to start pushing their forecasts back up. If... >>more...

Banking & Finance

Now is the time to crack down on offshore finance

Offshore financial centers must make amends for their role in the financial crisis, says Jeffrey Owens, OECD tax policy director... >>more...

Business Education

Chinese Democracy

Not just the name of a silly album, but blossoming on a Chinese b-school campus... >>more...

Business Practice

The magnificent middle

Chinese companies' ideas about hierarchical leadership are obsolete. Middle management needs more cultivation... >>more...

Travel & Leisure

Into Sichuan

Graham Earnshaw walks west from Shanghai when he has the time, always starting from the last place he stopped. This month we find him at the eastern edge of Sichuan Province... >>more...

Business Education

Blind alleys

In trying to cover everything, Giles Chance succeeds in offering very little... >>more...

Banking & Finance

Puppet show

Lending to order is China's most effective monetary policy tool, not that the authorities would ever admit it, says our Beijing-based China watcher... >>more...

Law & Regulation

A civil action

Foreign firms beware: China's new Tort Law clears the path for individuals to defend their rights in court, says Harris & Moure's Steven M. Dickinson... >>more...

Media, Tech & Telecom

Rude awakening

The dreams of foreign web companies are over; we are on the cusp of an all-Chinese internet, says our resident tech pundit... >>more...

Consumer

Old before their time

Weary white-collar workers; China rediscovers Sherlock Holmes; a benevolent tax man... >>more...

Politics & Society

It's the money, not the missiles

A cross-strait free trade pact is vital to the KMT's hopes of winning over a disenchanted populace... >>more...

Business Education

Guessing game

It would be easier to talk about business education if Beijing provided better data... >>more...

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BLOGS

Bamboo booster

Can bamboo help rebuild Sichuan?... >>more...

Interesting times for the Renminbi

Will the US finally brand China as a 'currency manipulator'?... >>more...

How much higher can factory wages go?

Raising wages is only a short-term solution to the labor shortage... >>more...

China's scary roads

One in ten Chinese cars got recalled for a product fault last year... >>more...

The dollar peg has no end in sight

There is no reason to believe that China is on the verge of a revaluation of the renminbi... >>more...

China promises to stop bullying foreign firms

Foreign companies have had a hard year in China. Wen Jiabao promises things will get easier... >>more...

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