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Introduction
Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
December 1, 2006
Emerging MarketsMost gulf oil flows East. And most of the talk at the DIFC/ Euromoney conference was about what HSBC has labeled East/ East financial flows. Gulf money wants to flow east as well No d…
August 9, 2007
ChinaBack in early 2004, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers highlighted the emergence of what he termed the "balance of financial terror." China – and others – relied on the US for demand that t…
September 24, 2007
Monetary Policymichael pettisThe Chinese sovereign wealth fund (which, following convention I will call the CIC) is expected to be approved later this month or early October, before the October 15 meeting of the 17…
January 5, 2009
ChinaThis isn’t exactly news to those who have been following the TIC data, but it is amusing. Reuters reports: " Zhang Hongli, executive vice president of the China Investment Corp (CIC), said the $200…
December 21, 2009
ChinaIt’s the end of the year, and end of a decade, and we here at Asia Unbound are not immune to the easy lure of the “Top Ten” list. OK, it’s not the Top Ten “Accidental Celebrities” or “Cultural Momen…