There is an ongoing debate on the impact of China on the competitiveness of China's near neighbours and indeed is an area where I have done some work. The World Economy recently published a paper looking at this threat.

More China bashing or more to it? The Economic Policy Institute report that Chinese trade is causing job losses in every state of the US. The counter arguments are too numerous to go into but a basic trade text book should suffice.

A new paper has been published by Angus Maddison & Harry X. Wu looking at measuring China's economic performance. The paper has come out in World Economics. This is a rather technical piece but it is worthy of attention.

I have been saying this for a while but the Chinese government's obsession with US paper could well be the largest transfer of wealth from developing to developing countries.

The Economist considers whether China is becoming more or less "capitalist". There is a certainly irony about this article written on October 2nd. You can bet that the US and Europe have become less capitalist very quickly as banks become nationalised...

The US and the EU continue to moan about the heavily managed exchange rate. So why is it such a problem? Martin Wolf explains. He correctly points out that China resents the continuous Western pressure. However, the extent of the undervaluation...

Whilst the word "Chinaisation" is objectional as a word in the English dictionary the topic of the Chinaisation of Africa is an interesting one and something I want to work on in the near future. The word "Chinisation" of Africa is even worse. Which...

Instead of endless Copenhagen coverage I point readers to Chinadialogue who are providing excellent coverage from a "China perspective". CHINA AND THE WORLD DISCUSS THE ENVIRONMENT Hello from Copenhagen, Beijing, London and San Francisco and welcome...

On the eve of the Copenhagen conference on climate change it is timely to remember that the countries that will suffer the most from climate change and developing countries. Whilst China and India may protest, quite correctly, that they did not emit...

Articles on China's capacity problem seem to come in waves. In a follow up to yesterday's post we see that the FT has jumped on the problem. It is about time that the mainstream press woke up to the illusion that China has created through its massive...