Related Blog Posts
NYT: China's Economic Power Unsettles the Neighbors
20 hours ago ago from Fund My Mutual Fund
While China's massive fiscal policy response to this crisis has been a boon to the region, we continue to see signs of angst among neighbors - even those currently thankful for China's impact on their economies. The New York Times follows up on a theme offered via Australia back in the summer. [ Jun 13, 2009: Australia in Perfect Position Aside China, but at a Cost? ] (Indonesia) In the Dickensian depths of the Dunia Metal Works here, all ...
Related contentFrbiz.com reports G20 summit convene in the United States trade protection are matters of concern
18 hours ago ago from The Pitt 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Pittsburgh, PA
G20 summit will be held today and tomorrow in Pittsburgh. Although the summit has not yet begun, but the United States President Barack Obama has thrown the balance in the pre-proposal to the global economy, in his view, including China, Germany and Japan and other exporting countries should reduce dependence on exports in order to address global imbalances . Public opinion, G20 summit, the United States or in the launch issue of trade ...
Related contentMany people would think that trading raw materials
20 hours ago ago from The Tacoma 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Tacoma, WA
Many people would think that trading raw materials is mutually beneficial between countries. The US economy depends on profiting globally, and we understand the benefit of using cheap labor in foreign countries through FDI. However, what happens when a state financed enterprise in China strategically buys up raw materials like iron and petroleum. I am not just talking about an even percentage, I mean “greater than 90% of the world’s raw ...
Related contentAn Introduction to the Rise of China's Auto Industry
11 hours ago ago from Congress and Law
Within the Chinese industrialization process, no development may be more important than the growth of China’s automotive industry, which is a catalyst for many other linked sectors of the economy. In particular, China’s focus on the auto industry and the supporting infrastructure and development patterns that accompany it may have the potential to upset many existing manufacturing and trade relationships in significant ways that are, ...
Related contentChina Surprising Leader In Green-Technology (The Huffington Post)
21 hours ago ago from Get Your Green On
What's Your Reaction? China looms large over the global climate summit in Copenhagen, where Chinese officials are pressing the U.S. and other rich nations to accept new curbs on their emissions and to continue to subsidize poor nations' efforts to adopt clean-energy technology.
Related contentRelated News
Disputes Entangle Climate Talks
9 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
Getty Images Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Kenyan professor Wangari Maathai and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attend a meeting on the ninth day of the U.N. Climate Change Conference. COPENHAGEN -- The United Nations' effort to muster global action against climate change appeared to move backward Tuesday, as the world's leading economies traded barbs over the most basic questions about how to divide responsibility for curbing ...
Related contentCopenhagen: U.S., China Battling Over Emissions
8 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
Tuesday afternoon brought a showdown between the world's largest polluters, the United States and China, at the climate summit in Copenhagen, the Associate Press reports . Each country refuses to budge from its position on carbon emissions, and China continues to accuse the United States and other developed countries of trying to force the brunt of the new regulation on poor nations. The United States has offered a 17 percent reduction from ...
Related contentEU, Latin America End Banana Dispute
11 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
BRUSSELS -- The European Union one of the world's longest-running trade battles Tuesday as it agreed to cut import tariffs on bananas from Latin America grown by U.S. corporations like Dole Food Co., Del Monte Foods Co. and Chiquita Brands International Inc. The settlement, which must still be backed by national legislatures, means cheaper bananas for Europeans, more profits for U.S. fruit firms and lower revenues for some former EU ...
Related contentWorld's Top Polluter Emerges as Green-Technology Leader
23 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
BEIJING -- Xu Shisen put down the phone and smiled. That was Canada calling, explained the chief engineer at a coal-fired power plant set among knockoff antique and art shops in a Beijing suburb. A Canadian company is interested in Mr. Xu's advances in bringing down the cost of stripping out greenhouse-gas emissions from burning coal. CO2 by Country Compare carbon emissions world-wide, per capita and per ...
Related contentChina Surprising Leader In Green-Technology
21 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Wall Street Journal : China looms large over the global climate summit in Copenhagen, where Chinese officials are pressing the U.S. and other rich nations to accept new curbs on their emissions and to continue to subsidize poor nations' efforts to adopt clean-energy technology. China is the world's biggest source of carbon emissions. Less understood is the way China is now becoming a source of some of the solutions. China's vast market ...
Related content
