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Accusing China of granting subsidies to its clean energy sector is another politicized economic move by the US for which the midterm election was the main motive.
The main challenge is whether or not China can ensure steady income growth for its large population, especially for those inhabiting the vast rural and underdeveloped inland regions.
Government revenue and spending will decide whether the development mode can improve people's well-being.
China's development is ushering in new opportunities and breeding new hopes as it adapts to the significant changes in the structure of global demand, takes a firm hold of the significant strategic opportunities, and accelerates the transformation of its mode of economic development.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) delivered a jolt to global markets when it unexpectedly raised interest rates last week. Never mind that the small increase will have a negligible impact on China's economy.
Chinese people today are more aware about the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR).
The world's largest debtor is using dollar dominance and debts to suck the wealth from emerging economies.
The economic recession has permeated many layers of British society and the Chinese migrant community in the United Kingdom has not evaded its reach.
There has been much chatter about bank loans to local governments' financing vehicles, widely regarded as one of the main risks facing the Chinese economy.
China has been under tremendous pressure, especially from the United States, to revaluate its currency more rapidly.
The 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) will serve as crucial guidelines for realizing the target of building a well-off society by 2020.
The property bubble has to be deflated, and the government has recognized the importance of doing so. But the question is: Does it have the right levers to slow the market down?
Now that the central government has decided not to issue more permits for extraction and trade in rare earth in the near future and Chinese enterprises have a larger say in setting its price
China could overtake Japan as the world's second largest consumer market in the next decade. Its private consumption today is only about 16 percent and 56 percent of that in the United States and Japan.
"The US has never got out of the first recession," said Rogers, a co-founder of the famous Quantum Fund in 1970 with George Soros, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
China was once again in the spotlight at the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit, which concluded in New York on Sept 22.
What a contrast! This was my first trip back to Asia after having spent three years living in the region.
The world economy has seen a nascent recovery spearheaded by some emerging markets since the third quarter of 2009, but the world is still to see sustainable economic growth even two years after the global financial crisis broke out.
I betrayed my ignorance within minutes of meeting my hosts at the airport in Xilinhot, a city some 500 km north of Beijing in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
Even two years after the global financial crisis broke out the world economy shows few signs of a real recovery.
Since iPad2 went on sale in China on May 6, hundreds of iPad fans and scalpers queued up overnight at almost every Apple store. The craze even led to a violent incident in Sanlitun, Beijing. Do you think iPad2 is worth the hassle?
Beijing - Dressed in a crisp suit, Li Zhirui, sitting on the window seat of a Beijing bus, silently gazes at the European-style villas, luxury cars and illuminated shopping malls as they pass him by.