Macao’s Washing Machine
Hong Kong and Macao—China’s pair of ex-colonies—rarely register negative valuations. In any case, PWC’s traditional, careful poll—in…
Chaori Solar: A necessary failure
China’s first domestic corporate bond default, a historic event, is ringing alarm bells over the nation’s credit…
China: Finance Without Banks?
An exchange of adjectives is probably triggering a much longer-term process. At the PCC’s Third Plenum last…
Impossible Isolationism
John Kerry just completed his trip in Asia after visiting Seoul, Beijing and Jakarta. US involvement has…
The thousand-year-old memory of the two Vietnamese sisters
“We don’t have friends or enemies in foreign politics, only interests.” This is the mantra repeated by…
1989: The End?
Many of us believed that 1989 would be the start of a “new world.” After the Berlin…
A new Latin American channel between Beijing and Washington
100 years after its inauguration, the Panama Canal is suffering from old age and competition. The first…
IPOs in China: when the norm is explosive and progress is straining to flourish
To understand the reasons behind a potential business loss, it’s necessary to rewind the tape of events…
A solid roof for Chinese investments
A 2010 study by Capgemini and Merryll Lynch noted that the number of Asian millionaires had surpassed those in…
Strange but natural and deadly alliances between the local and Chinese mafias
History has won an ironic rematch in the numbers game. Almost forty years ago when Mao died,…