Three weeks ago, following the Xi-Biden telephone call of September 9, the US offered to send President Joseph Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to Beijing, but the Chinese side
On Tuesday morning, Premier Li Keqiang presided over a meeting in Zhongnanhai to address China’s severe power shortages and rolling blackouts. As has been picked up by some media, the
Happy (almost) Friday – well it seems always exciting! Debt ceiling standoff (a real one still), reconciliation and infrastructure fight, inflation and supply chain risks, Fed appointment challenges, energy crises,
While real estate giant Evergrande’s financial distress has been evident for weeks if not months, the prospects of an official default by the second largest developer in China roiled financial
While real estate giant Evergrande’s financial distress has been evident for weeks if not months, the prospects of an official default by the second largest developer in China roiled financial
In the interest of efficiency and time I thought we might share a few brief highlights of key market related points in (and not in) our reports while addressing some
On Thursday evening September 10, Friday morning Beijing time, US President Joseph Biden called China’s President Xi Jinping and the two leaders spoke for 92 minutes, to be precise. While
China and the US have not yet held any formal or vice-ministerial level consultations on the elimination of tariffs, but our understanding is that the two sides have begun informal
A senior Chinese official commented to our contacts in Beijing on the latest in a series of government crackdowns, this one on peer-to-peer lending platforms and financial media/bloggers. Separately, China’s
When China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with the Taliban’s second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Tianjin two weeks ago, Baradar boasted that the Taliban could return to Kabul and
Chinese leaders have returned to Beijing this weekend after their traditional secretive summer outing in the resort of Beidaihe. They offered the following comments on US-China dialogue and on reports
China’s President Xi Jinping presided over the fourth of eight summer-scheduled Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission (CFEAC) meetings in Zhongnanhai, Beijing on Thursday, July 29. That meeting formulated monetary
Markets have been parsing through official announcements and Chinese state-run media outlets for clues as to whether the ruling Politburo will be seeking to further crack down on new sectors,
A top-level policy maker in Beijing noted, two nights ago, how what he calls “China concept” stocks on Wall Street had plummeted horribly over the previous two days. In fact,
The meetings this week between US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Xie Feng, and subsequently with Foreign Minister Wang Yi, were somewhat
The People’s Bank of China announced on Friday a cut in its Reserve Requirement Ratio (RRR) of 50 basis points for eligible financial institutions starting on July 15 to support
Over this past year, analysts and investors seem to have misunderstood, or perhaps riding on the wave of a ferocious global equity bull market, chosen to look through the policy
On Friday, China’s most widely used ride-hailing app, Didi Chuxing, was put under review by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) for cybersecurity concerns – just two days after its
Our understanding is that China’s Premier Li Keqiang addressed virtual currencies again at length at a meeting of the State Council executive committee that was just held on Wednesday morning,
Vice-Premier Liu He presided over a meeting of the State Council Financial Stability and Development Committee (FSDC) on Friday, May 21, to map out key issues and the actions needed
