Country Report
Russia Takes A Half Turn To Asia
Russia is working to reduce its dependency on Europe by strengthening domestic industry and ties to the Far East. It’s a work in progress.
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Features
China Is Not Japan. And Never Will Be
The same forces that have hammered Japan’s economy are at play in China, but with mitigating features that portend different outcomes.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Alipay Seeks Growth From Traveling Chinese
Alipay is partnering with banks around the world to provide its Chinese customers with seamless service at their preferred tourist destinations, with Italy’s UniCredit Bank following France’s BNP Paribas and Barclays in the UK.
Award Winners
ICBC Tackles Its Challenges
The sprawling Chinese bank faces a slowing domestic economy and new opportunities in international markets.
Features
Parsing State Ownership In China
Determining the influence of the state in a given company, and what that means for investors, is a surprisingly nuanced exercise.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
China Retailers Bet Big On Online Banking Service
Chinese Web giant Baidu has obtained regulatory approval to establish, in collaboration with China Citic Bank, a direct-banking firm named Baixin Bank that will operate online rather than through brick-and-mortar outlets.
Country Report
China To Build Silk Road For Project Finance
China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative is the most ambitious overarching infrastructure project to be proposed in the modern era, and it requires ambitious financing.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
McDonald’s China Deal Favors Franchise Model
McDonald’s agreed to sell 80% control of its restaurants in China and Hong Kong for 20 years to state-owned conglomerate Citic and the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm.
Country Report
Silk Road Bonds: The Next Big Thing?
Using Silk Road bonds as a funding vehicle for the vast capital needs of the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project appears a handy catchall subsuming devilish details.
News
China To Rule Renewables
China is committed to investing more than $360 billion in domestic renewable energy and supporting technologies by 2020,building on its existing position as the world’s largest investor in renewables.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Jack Ma Pledges US Jobs. Sort Of
Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma stood side by side with president-elect Donald Trumpon January 9 to tout Alibaba plans that would “create one million [US] jobs.” Turns out, the plans are to support exporters, which may or may not create jobs in the US.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Old Essay Shines Light On Trumps Trade Rep
A35-page essay in the archives of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission shows howRobert Lighthizer, a veteran attorney who is now Trump’s pick for US Trade Representative, might approach America's$30 billion-a-month trade deficit with China.