China

Budget Battles

  • Global Growth Still Reliant on Asia

    By JONATHAN CABLE and Anooja Debnath, Reuters

    The global economy is set to expand by a modest 3.3 percent this year as a still-smoldering euro zone debt crisis and a relatively slow U.S. recovery continue to leave Asia as the main driver of...

  • U.S. Cities: The Secret Engine of the Global Economy

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    The 21st century has been called the century of cities, and a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute shows just how crucial a role U.S. cities will play in driving global economic growth over...

  • Briton Was Poisoned by Chinese

    By CHRIS BUCKLEY, Reuters

    The British businessman whose murder has sparked political upheaval in China was poisoned after he threatened to expose a plan by a Chinese leader's wife to move money abroad, two sources with...

  • How Romney’s China Pledge Could Backfire

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    China’s slowing economy is weakening the case for candidate Mitt Romney’s pledge to declare China a currency violator, which would likely throw bilateral relations between the world’s two largest...

  • China Pol's Wife Suspected of Murdering Heywood

    By CHRIS BUCKLEY and BENJAMIN KANG LIM, Reuters

    "We can't keep a lid on this," China's disgraced leader Bo Xilai was reportedly told by his police chief when the murder scandal now engulfing Bo's family first began to unravel.