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McKinsey: Reassessing China's SOEs
McKinsey Quarterly says: For many years, the West has viewed China’s state-owned enterprises in black or white. In one portrayal, they are infiltrators to be viewed with suspicion. An example: Aluminum Corporation of China’s (Chinalco) recent multibillion-dollar purchase of a stake in Rio... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Beijing hikes minimum wage as inflation soars
ChannelNewsAsia reports: China's capital Beijing is to raise its minimum salary by 10 percent in a bid to help the worst-off cope with rising inflation, state media said Saturday. Beginning from July 1, the minimum monthly salary for city employees will rise from 730 to 800 yuan (106 to 116... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Beijing Olympics Mixed With Politics
The NYT reports: After months of warning other countries not to politicize the summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China has come under criticism from the International Olympic Committee for doing just that. In a rare rebuke just weeks before the Games begin, the committee sent a letter to... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

McKinsey: China's Automakers Not Ready to Go Global
McKinsey says: A decade of astonishing growth has catapulted China past Germany and Japan to become the world’s second-largest market for automobiles, trailing only the United States. Global OEMs such as GM, Toyota Motor, and Volkswagen still command the lion’s share of sales in China.... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

Visa Limits Hurting Tourism in China
The IHT reports: The plush lobby of the Kerry Center Hotel in Beijing is usually crowded with foreign guests this time of year, most of them lounging in Centro, a hip bar, listening to jazz and sipping martinis, or queuing up in the taxi line after power dinners at the Horizon restaurant. But... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

China vs Microsoft - Maybe Not
Steve Dickinson at the China Law Blog says: Both the English and the Chinese web have been rife with news of a Chinese government antitrust investigation of Microsoft's pricing of its software products. The reports initially stated the PRC State IP Office was investigating foreign software... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

KPMG: China to overtake US as top capital destination in 5 years
The China Economic Review reports: China will overtake the US as the top destination for corporate investment over the next five years, the South China Morning Post reported, citing a study by KPMG. The international accounting firm said in its survey of global corporate capital flow that funds... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Angel Ye Saves Chinese Students during Quake
The NY Times reports: The students lined up row by row on the outdoor basketball courts of Sangzao Middle School in the minutes after the earthquake. When the head count was complete, their fate was clear: all 2,323 were alive. Parents covered in blood and dust hugged them and cried. So did the... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

China's Trade Debate: Importers versus Exporters
In the WSJ, Daniel Rosen writes: U.S. and Chinese officials are preparing to gather next week for the latest round of their Strategic Economic Dialogue, and as in the past yuan appreciation will be a critical agenda item. In one of those accidents of history, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson may... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Television Networks and the Beijing Olympics
Time reports: Television networks that will broadcast the Beijing Olympics to billions around the world are squaring off with local organizers over stringent security that threatens coverage of the games in two months. Differences over a wide range of issues â€" from limits on live coverage in... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Visa Confusion Casts a Shadow over the Olympics
The Globe and Mail reports: Daniel Yeung is still trying to understand how it happened. After eight years of steady employment, the Canadian recruitment consultant is being kicked out of China, forced to join an exodus of foreigners streaming out of the host country ahead of the Beijing... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

China's Gaoko is Here
Slate says: For China's 31st annual National College Entrance Exam, which takes place on the first Thursday and Friday of June, at least 10 million Chinese high-school students have registered to sit the gaokao, as it is colloquially known. They are competing for an estimated 5.7 million... Read more...
Published 1 month ago