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20 Nov 09
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Video: Taiwan Eyes China’s Tech Sector As China and Taiwan move closer towards establishing free trade under the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, or ECFA, Taiwan-based tech companies are looking forward to gaining entry to China’s massive consumer market. Matthew Rivera looks at t... |
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20 Nov 09
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Dashan Is a Friendly Face When Canadian Mark Rowswell popped onto the scene in 1988 playing a character dubbed “Dashan,” the Chinese audience wanted to see foreigners in the role of the “happy-go-lucky buffoon.” Now, he said, the stereotype is "the friend of China." |
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20 Nov 09
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Where Do China’s Emissions Come From? The idea that rich countries are, fundamentally, responsible for a significant share of developing-world emissions just adds another wrinkle to global talks that are already going nowhere fast. |
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19 Nov 09
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Obama’s China Interview Mystery Obama's parting words to the Chinese public are the subject of a mystery that has some observers scratching their heads and wondering whether the censors have been at work again: Southern Weekend, a Chinese newspaper, on Thursday carried an exclusive... |
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19 Nov 09
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On Yuan: What’s In a (Chinese) Phrase? Obama, with China's Hu close by, on Tuesday lauded China’s “commitment made in past statements to move to a more market-oriented exchange rate over time.” Thatmay resonate among U.S. advocates of a stronger Chinese currency. But it’s unclear w... |
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19 Nov 09
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Property Bubble Trouble Is there a property bubble emerging in China? As ever, getting an answer is like nailing jelly to a wall, says Heard on the Street. |
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19 Nov 09
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Video: Bloggers’ Mountain Meet-Up An ancient cave was the backdrop to this year's Chinese Blogger Conference in the remote Chinese city of Lianzhou, Guangdong province. WSJ's Sky Canaves went to find out why the netizens decided to hold their annual conference there. |
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19 Nov 09
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China’s Cyberwars In a sign that China's Ministry of National Defense faces the same kind of Internet security challenges that militaries around the world have reported, its new Web site was attacked more than 2.3 million times within a month of going online in August. |
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19 Nov 09
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Mixed Signals on China’s Private-Sector Investment Despite strong headline economic growth rates , officials and scholars say China's economic recovery won’t really be solid until private-sector spending takes over the leading role. Some statistics suggest that shift is happening, but it’s worth dig... |
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18 Nov 09
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On Image, China Did Obama No Favors There’s a good reason why President Obama, one of the world’s great communicators, managed to appear inaccessible – almost wooden -- on his visit to China. |
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18 Nov 09
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Video: Taiwan’s ‘Alternative China’ In the 60 years since Chinese Nationalists moved to Taiwan, the country has grown up in a very different way from mainland China. Matthew Rivera reports from Taiwan on how culture, democracy and economics there offer a look at an alternative China. |
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18 Nov 09
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The Great Hong Kong Wine Heist Since Hong Kong eliminated all wine duties last year, the city has become a major center for wine sales to China’s newly rich, allowing them to engage in a tax-free bacchanal of buying, trading, sniffing and sipping. Apparently deciding no taxes wasn... |
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18 Nov 09
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CCTV Ad Auction: ‘China Is Like Noah’s Ark’ It’s time again for the live auction in which Chinese and multinational advertisers pledge spending for commercials on China Central Television, an equivalent of the U.S. networks' "upfront" ads sales that's sometimes called China's "economic Olympics." |
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18 Nov 09
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A Brief Family Reunion for Obama Amid a busy schedule of official meetings and speed-tours through famous sites in Beijing, Barack Obama also had a chance to meet with his half-brother Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo. |
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18 Nov 09
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Who Are China’s Most Powerful People? BusinessWeek has published its inaugural list of China's 40 “Most Powerful People.” It’s an interesting exercise, trying to enumerate where power resides in China today. Sticklers will doubtless point to omissions: former President Jiang Zemin sti... |
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18 Nov 09
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Video: Obama’s Ambitious Plans, Uncertain Rapport The U.S. president leaves Beijing with a long to-do list, but is his relationship with Chinese leaders strong enough to tackle it? WSJ's Ian Johnson breaks down Obama's first visit to the world's most populous nation. |
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18 Nov 09
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Yiyi Lu: The Most ‘Bullish’ Official-Speak Yiyi Lu, an expert on Chinese civil society, discusses the debate over how Chinese officials present themselves to the public. |
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18 Nov 09
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China Needn’t Surpass U.S. on Tech Innovation, Intel CTO Says China's factories have long churned out high tech products. A big question facing Silicon Valley -- underscored in a survey released Monday by Intel and Newsweek -- is how big a role the country will play in dreaming up those gadgets. |
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18 Nov 09
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Huawei Rises to No. 2 Spot Huawei is now the world’s second-largest telecommunications equipment provider, beating Nokia Siemens Networks and second only to Ericsson, according to research firm Dell’Oro, further affirming the company’s global expansion as it tries to tackle m... |
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17 Nov 09
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U.S.-China Joint Statement President Hu ands U.S. President Obama held in-depth, productive and candid discussions on U.S.-China relations and other issues of mutual interest. |
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17 Nov 09
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A Quick Tour: Obama’s 30 Minutes in the Forbidden City The Forbidden City is a wonder, dozens of ancient and ornate buildings and temples, hundreds of palatial chambers, walkways through tranquil parks, gift shops with hand-crafted silk Chinese painting – delights to last for hours and hours. Or – if yo... |
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17 Nov 09
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Waiting for the Yuan Markets may expect it, and foreign leaders may hope for it - but none of this means the Chinese yuan is about to start appreciating against the dollar again soon, says Heard on the Street |
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17 Nov 09
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China Merchants Securities’ Humble Debut Signals Shift In Market Mood It seems that as the Obama Effect on Chinese stocks has faded, the market now really lacks a fresh catalyst, so much so that China's eighth-largest brokerage had to put up with an unusually humble trading debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange today. |
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17 Nov 09
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Obama’s Umbrella Habits Set a Standard On his first visit to China, Barack Obama has won hearts and minds with a simple gesture – by carrying his own umbrella. |
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17 Nov 09
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Video: Hu, Obama Stick to Script On the surface, U.S. President Barack Obama's meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao went according to plan. WSJ's Ian Johnson reads between the lines and discusses what to look for on the final day of Obama's China visit. |
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17 Nov 09
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Stanley Lubman: Chongqing Criminal Trials Underscore Dangers of Corporatist State Stanley Lubman, a long-time specialist on Chinese law, discusses the implications of the massive corruption trials currently under way in Chongqing. |
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17 Nov 09
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GE Figures China Is the Future China has transformed the global aircraft manufacturing business by first becoming an assembly center for aircraft bodies. It was just a matter of time before avionics, the brains of a modern airplane, would shift here. As a recent GE joint-venture... |
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17 Nov 09
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Key Words and Phrases from the Hu-Obama Press Statements We took a stream-of-consciousness approach to note-taking on the joint "press conference" just held by Hu Jintao and Barack Obama at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, jotting a very partial transcript below. |
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16 Nov 09
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Obama Asked About Arms Sales to Taiwan China is stepping up efforts to convince Taiwan that it doesn’t really want to buy weapons from the U.S., just as--coincidentally or not--U.S. President Barack Obama was asked about the issue at a question-and-answer forum in Shanghai. |
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16 Nov 09
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Video Excerpts from Obama’s Shanghai Town Hall Below are two excerpts from Obama's town hall meeting with youth in Shanghai. |
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16 Nov 09
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Trading Niceties in Beijing Mr. President, why is your country becoming so protectionist? This is the message greeting Obama as he heads for talks in Beijing with top Chinese leaders. But, says Heard on the Street, the real test of the trade relationship may come after the Obama... |
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16 Nov 09
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Obama Factor Hits Stocks Again In China's notoriously liquidity-driven, detached-from-fundamentals stock market, anything can be an excuse for speculators to drive prices up or down – not least a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. |
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16 Nov 09
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Obama China Visit Drives Up Green Stocks President Barack Obama's visit has driven up prices of what the media has coined as "Obama concept stocks," stocks related to the White House's environmental agenda. WSJ's Josh Chin went to the floor to find out what Chinese traders were buying. |
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16 Nov 09
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Live Blogging Obama’s Shanghai Town Hall 12:00 p.m.: The scene: Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, located in the east coast city's purpose built district of modernity, Pudong. |
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15 Nov 09
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Questions for Obama What will Obama be asked when he sits down with Chinese youth at Monday’s town hall meeting in Shanghai? |
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15 Nov 09
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Rights Groups Flood Obama With Advice On China Trip ‘Tis the season for human rights activists to issue statements about China. With President Obama arriving in Shanghai late Sunday to start his first state visit here, a host of groups are trying to use the trip to call attention to issues they say g... |
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15 Nov 09
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White House Strives for Uncensored Event Amid concern of heavy-handed Chinese influence, White House officials say they are taking pains to make sure President Barack Obama’s comments -- and questions -- at a Shanghai town hall meeting Monday will be unfiltered. |
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13 Nov 09
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Inside China’s ‘Black Jails’ On Thursday, the New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report on China’s “black jails,” described as an underground system of ad hoc detention houses where people deemed to be troublemakers are held without formal legal proceedings |
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13 Nov 09
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Riding the China Train It's the age of the train in China; nearly $90 billion is budgeted for spending on railway construction this year and next, with a further $15 billion to go on vehicle procurement in each year. But, says Heard on the Street, investing in companies that... |
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13 Nov 09
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Traders Dream Of a U.S.-China Green Deal While few expect concrete progress will be made during President Barack Obama’s visit to China starting Sunday, China’s stock dealing rooms were bubbling with Obama-themed trades Friday, leading to strength in new-energy companies and a surge in ... |
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13 Nov 09
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Is Barack Obama Unpopular in China? Just last year, Obama seemed as popular in China as anywhere. A survey by the U.S. embassy in Beijing late last year and reprinted in China Daily showed he was popular among 75% of Internet users who participated in the survey. |
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13 Nov 09
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In-Flight Services: Budget Carrier Looks to Sell Homes and Cars A Chinese budget carrier is taking the concept of ancillary revenues to a new level.
In addition to the usual array of knick-knacks, travelers on Spring Airlines may soon be able to buy a house or car in midair. |
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13 Nov 09
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Shaolin Temple Under Hacker Attack Shaolin Temple - the world-famous birthplace of Chinese Kung Fu - was attacked by computer hackers twice this month, reflecting long-standing ill feeling about the temple’s aggressive commercial activities in recent years. |
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13 Nov 09
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Ahead of Obama Trip: Briefing for China’s Bloggers China’s bloggers are a focus of organizers of the Obama visit, echoing similar efforts by the administration to use social media tools to communicate with Americans.
On Thursday, U.S. state department officials held simultaneous press briefings for... |
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13 Nov 09
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Are Beijingers Getting Snowed About Who Makes The Weather? When Beijing residents were surprised and delighted by rare snowfall earlier this month, the Beijing Weather Modification Office took credit. But when Beijing was blanketed with more heavy snow this week, causing massive traffic disruptions and flight... |
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12 Nov 09
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Is the Yuan on the Move? Not so Fast Say Some The People's Bank of China tweaked its language in a report on currency policy yesterday, signaling to some that Chinese authorities are getting ready to let the yuan strengthen for the first time since mid-2008. |
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12 Nov 09
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China-Africa Friendship Awards In an award ceremony in Beijing, among “Five African People Who Deeply Moved the Chinese People”, 85-year-old Kenneth Kaunda, the first president of Zambia, stood out. |
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12 Nov 09
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In Hong Kong: Mainland Baby Boom Hong Kong is worried about its low birth rate, but you wouldn't know it from trying to get a bed at one of this city's maternity wards: Increasingly, they're packed full of mainland Chinese mothers. |
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12 Nov 09
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Taiwan-China Financial Services Pact May Underwhelm Over the decades, banks in Taiwan have coveted access to China’s market to serve their Taiwanese corporate clients who operate on the mainland. But that hasn't been possible, because the two longtime rivals never reached a deal on how to treat ea... |
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11 Nov 09
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Will China’s Government Be Another Hurdle For Geely’s Volvo Bid? One of Geely’s biggest fears, says a person close to the company, is a last-minute request by the central government to let some state-owned auto maker in on the deal, perhaps as a member of Geely’s bidding consortium for Volvo. |
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