China has become synonymous with the purchase of natural resource firms and commodity based assets across the globe, snapping up oil and gas, minerals and…
Fresh from spending US$ 1.3 billion for the rights to China’s football super league and buying shares in English club Manchester City, Li Ruigang head…
Last week I took a look at China’s relations in the more southerly parts of the Pacific. This week I turn my attention to the…
China has been accused by Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam and others of aggressive moves in the Pacific region, including the militarisation of islands in the South…
Widely published satellite imagery from Feb. 14 shows the presence of new Chinese air defense systems on Woody Island in the South China Sea, highlighting…
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has come under heavy fire from Western critics who accuse him of returning to the autocracy endured under the its…
At the end of 2014 China’s biggest bank the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) held an astonishing US$ 3.3 trillion in assets, while…
India’s economic growth outpaced its Northern neighbour over the last year, at the same time commodity exports from Africa to China are reportedly falling and suddenly…
There is huge fault line running through China – South East Asian relations, namely the ongoing dispute over who should control the Spratly Islands in…
Who sets petrol prices, decides the thickness of plastic bags, the length of roads and the size of Disneyland Shanghai? In China these key decisions…









