SAFE (the State Administration for Foreign Exchange) is a rather obscure state bureaucracy which lies behind one of the biggest economic stories of our time,…
Few banks exert as much power and influence across the globe as the China Development Bank. Although it is not China’s biggest bank, when it…
In 2000 Brazil’s trade with China constituted 1 percent of its trade portfolio, a mere rounding error in the billions that make up international trade,…
The Chinese push into Brazil and Latin America has expanded the continent’s resource base and injected competition into its commodity sector, as investors from China…
The recent fluctuations in China’s currency typify the best and worst of a globalized world, where developments in one place can instantly change the political…
The last couple of months has seen a flurry of attention around the Chinese economy and its perceived weaknesses, the fall of an overpriced stock…
Chinese firms, mostly state owned enterprises (SOEs), have poured into Brazil, even taking into account the unreliability of FDI measures the figures are impressive (US…
Trade between Brazil and China has expanded rapidly over the last decade, bilateral trade rose from US $ 6.5 billion in 2003 to US $…
When I first visited Pakistan on an overland Europe to Asia trip all the way back in the year 2000 little did I know that…
We know Chinese firms are expanding overseas at an unprecedented rate, but what is driving them them to do so? It is well established that…