China's growing economic weight means that it now exerts a substantial influence on the economies of other emerging markets. Channels of Influence China's impact on other emerging markets operates thr...

In a fit of serendipitous geopolitical comic timing, Boing Boing may have unwittingly hit upon the best metaphor for how the world views China at times like this. Beijing is flexing its rhetorical mus...

Many of the entrepreneurs that today rank as China’s richest real estate developers made their early money from selling apartments to the country’s growing middle class. Focusing on apartments and res...

China’s housing market hasn’t yet turned into a full-blown real estate bubble, but the government needs to work to limit further price increases or face that risk, an executive with a leading property...

This weekend, eBay’s CEO John Donahoe shared the stage with Alibaba’s maverick founder Jack Ma at his annual Alifest conference in Hangzhou, China. Gady Epstein, Forbes Beijing bureau chief, has an in...

One of my biggest nightmares is that I wake up in a Chinese hospital. I'm scared not because the doctors lack knowledge or their equipment is old--the opposite is often true--but because of the endemi...

The remote alpine lake and glacier grasslands of the 11,000-foot-high Tibetan plateau north of the Himalayas may seem to be one of the unlikeliest hot spots of 2020. But this vast land of Buddhist mon...

If China is trying to give its manufacturers a leg up by restricting exports of rare earth metals, it may find the advantage temporary. With prices spiking following the latest in a series of annual e...

Alibaba Group billionaire Jack Ma’s annual AliFest conference in Hangzhou features an intriguing, one might even say unlikely, keynote speaker Friday morning: John Donahoe, the CEO of eBay. Why unlike...

Liquidity levels in the capital markets will improve and foreign exchange borrowing costs will reduce as more companies start settling cross-border trade with yuan, said analysts. "There is a growing...

Earlier this year, Lenovo launched an Android-based smartphone and revealed a new tablet computer with a detachable screen. Last month, the Chinese computer vendor also set up a new firm to develop a...

Here's some reassuring news to send us into the September-October holiday season. In the wake of the Henan Airlines crash in Yichun a fortnight ago that killed 42 people, an investigation by the Civil...