China Economic ReviewWestern car makers are hailing a new era in automobile sales in China. Increasingly major foreign car firms are toughing out the less than perfect conditions in order to make their presence felt in a country where the number of drivers is potentially huge.
Tom Orlik of the Wall Street Journal provides a handy reference for Chinese statistics
The financial crisis has seemed to be one long and painful lesson in our inability to predict the future. But there’s still much at stake in trying. Economists’ views differ wildly on the sustainability of China’s current growth model, as well as the ability of the government to shift to a consumption-driven form of growth. […]
Zhang Kun, vice president of corporate development at online sports video site PPTV, on football, Wimbledon and piracy
China is using scientific agreements as an effective diplomatic tool