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China Flexes Its Muscles on Wall Street Redux

While China and the United States are increasingly deepening their economic, trade and financial interdependence, Beijing’s experiment on the global stage is being closely monitored by Washington for its national security implications. Such is the case concerning China’s newly established sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) under... MORE

China Flexes Its Muscles on Wall Street Redux

While China and the United States are increasingly deepening their economic, trade and financial interdependence, Beijing’s experiment on the global stage is being closely monitored by Washington for its national security implications. Such is the case concerning China’s newly established sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) under... MORE

China Flexes Its Muscles on Wall Street

First, it was the massive accumulation of China’s foreign reserves in Beijing's wallet, the largest in the world, with $1.4 trillion. A major portion of that money has flowed into the U.S. Treasury bonds, subsidizing much of the Bush administration’s deficit-driven economy. Then, there was... MORE

China Flexes Its Muscles on Wall Street

First, it was the massive accumulation of China’s foreign reserves in Beijing's wallet, the largest in the world, with $1.4 trillion. A major portion of that money has flowed into the U.S. Treasury bonds, subsidizing much of the Bush administration’s deficit-driven economy. Then, there was... MORE

Hu’s Economic Policies: Liberalizing the Economy or Promoting Special Interests?

While widely recognized as holding conservative ideological and political views, the Hu Jintao leadership has been given reasonably high marks for pushing forward economic reforms first initiated by the late patriarch Deng Xiaoping. According to World Trade Organization provisions, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has... MORE

Hu’s Economic Policies: Liberalizing the Economy or Promoting Special Interests?

While widely recognized as holding conservative ideological and political views, the Hu Jintao leadership has been given reasonably high marks for pushing forward economic reforms first initiated by the late patriarch Deng Xiaoping. According to World Trade Organization provisions, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has... MORE