American film studios are desperate to win approval for releases in China because its film market is rocketing. From 2003 to 2010 box-office receipts...
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Quantitative frightening
Controlling for the range of things that influence interest rates, from growth to demography, economists have attempted to gauge the impact of...
Shares struggle again
WHEN a canary stops singing, it is worth a sidelong glance. When whole flocks of birds keel over, it is time to be alarmed. The warning signs in the...
Doughty but not superhuman
IN THE 1950s Caoyang New Village, then on the outskirts of Shanghai, became one of China’s first model settlements for heroic socialist workers....
Clubbing together
Groupon has flopped in China, just as many other Western internet firms have done. This has left the field clear for local businesses. On October 8th...
Taking a pounding
WHEN did Britain cease to be the world’s pre-eminent power? Some date its dotage to the end of the first world war; others to the second. By the time...
Tumbling commodity prices put the squeeze on resource firms
FROM scrap dealers in the rich world to wild-cat miners in Africa, the ripple effects of slowing demand for metals in China are being felt far and...
Cards on the table
“IN THIS case, there is no ‘House of Cards’.” President Xi Jinping of China charmed his audience with those words at a fancy dinner in Seattle on...