Архів публікацій категорії Sinology

Каждую неделю Китай выбрасывает в атмосферу больше CO2, чем весь развитый мир вместе взятый. Почему известные деятели, занимающиеся климатической проблематикой, не обращают на это внимание? Вместо этого они акцентируют внимание на других аспектах, таких как сельское хозяйство, потребление мяса, используемый транспорт и даже насекомые в рационе.

China will be the top contributor to global growth over the next five years, with its share bigger than all Group of Seven countries combined, according to Bloomberg calculations using International Monetary Fund forecasts. China will account for about 21% of the world’s new economic activity from this year through 2029. That compares with 20% for the G-7, and almost…

The US reiterated to China its concerns over what it sees as industrial overcapacity in the world’s second-largest economy, prompting Beijing officials to push back against that accusation. “The US delegation continued to express concerns about China’s non-market practices and industrial overcapacity,” the US Treasury Department said after a meeting Tuesday of the economic working group between the two countries.…

Western states that lost their overseas possessions have fared well in the Pax Americana. But Xi and Putin want to regain their nations’ long-lost imperial might. The ghosts of empire are haunting Eurasia. President Xi Jinping’s China is seeking to reclaim the power and privileges of the great dynasties that once bestrode Asia. President Vladimir Putin is channeling the memory, and the…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned Chinese officials to address overcapacity and treat foreign firms better, reinforcing criticisms delivered by the US Treasury Secretary in Beijing last week. “Competition must be fair,” Scholz told an audience of university students on Monday in Shanghai, on the second leg of his four-day trip to the Asian nation. “We want a level playing field,…

For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia. Nestled in a dense forest, the Ukrainian military base appears abandoned and destroyed, its command center a burned-out husk, a casualty of a Russian missile barrage early in the war. But that is above…

Three things are required to enable the PDI to meet its vital objectives. While the Pentagon waits for Congress to pass a budget for the fiscal year that’s one-third over, the world moves on. A new year brings a new federal budget cycle, despite the delays in getting last year’s spending enacted. Unfortunately, world events and America’s security needs do…

Germany’s close trade relations with China could wreak havoc on the financial system of Europe’s largest economy if they were to deteriorate, the Bundesbank warned. While direct exposure is relatively small, “significant risks” result from lenders’ relationships with firms at home that are either invested in China or sell a lot of their output there, the central bank said. Banks…

Curbs on funds that allow retail investors to bet on foreign securities come amid sell-off in Chinese equities Chinese authorities are tightening limits on capital outflows by restricting access to funds that invest in offshore securities as the country battles a brutal market rout. About a third of Chinese funds that invest in foreign securities under a scheme that bypasses…