China

Budget Battles

  • US Malaise, Debt Stalemate Shake Allies Globally

    By JOE McDONALD

    BEIJING (AP) — America's debt crisis and economic malaise are shaking confidence in its global leadership. Many governments see Washington's paralysis as political theater ahead of a presidential...

  • China Boosts Holdings of US Treasury Securities

    By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, The Associated Press

    WASHINGTON (AP) — China, the biggest buyer of U.S. Treasury debt, increased its holdings in May for the second straight month, after five months of declines. China boosted its holdings by $7.3...

  • China’s Biggest Export to America Is Unemployment

    By David Adler, The Fiscal Times

    China’s economy is booming while the U.S. stagnates but there is no consensus about whether or how the U.S. should respond and nothing is being done.

  • U.S. Firms Looks to China for Growth

    By KEITH B. RICHBURG, The Washington Post

    CHONGQING, China — U .S. businesses are increasingly looking to China’s western hinterlands as the future source of growth and profits, with Ford, Wal-Mart and other companies planning major...

  • America’s Dangerously Out-of-Date View of China

    By Patrick Smith

    America’s sluggish insistence that China remains a security threat as opposed to a powerful economic reality is leading to lost opportunities. Not quite four decades after Nixon visited Mao, the U.S...