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March 15, 2013
Politics and Government
Hello, Xi Jinping: President of China
Good news comes in threes. Just ask Xi Jinping. Back in November he was named Secretary General of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission. Yesterday he picke…
June 22, 2005
Capital Flows
The joys of being a creditor nation
China is on track to add between $250 and $300 billion to its reserves this year. That is a lot of money. Enough to have an impact on global bond markets. Enough to buy several oil companies. As…
August 12, 2005
United States
The June trade data. Changes in relative prices do matter
The June trade deficit -- $58.8 billion -- was a bit bigger than the market expected, and quite a bit bigger than the May deficit ($55.4 b). Annualized, it works out to a $706 billion trade deficit…
July 17, 2012
China
China’s Population Policy—An Exchange Between Edwin Winckler and Yanzhong Huang
Dr. Yanzhong Huang is Senior Fellow for Global Health and the newest writer for Asia Unbound. His first post, “Time for China to Abandon Its Population Control Policy,” attracted significant attentio…
May 3, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: France Votes, Putin Returns, North Korea May Test, and Clinton Visits India and Bangladesh
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the second and final round of France’s presidential elections; Vladimir Putin’s return as president of Russia; a possible North Korean n…
December 13, 2007
Financial Markets
Euro-yuan-dollar diplomacy
Europe to China: Please do not buy any more euros.EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Joaquin Almunia said China should not take any steps to increase its euro reserves at the moment. Aske…
December 21, 2009
China
The Decade’s Top Ten Game-Changers in U.S.-China Relations
It’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…
February 1, 2010
South Korea
Stakes Rise for U.S.-ROK Nuclear Energy Talks
Miles A. Pomper is a Senior Research Associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, DC. When South Korea and the United States negotiated their last nuclear coopera…
June 24, 2008
China
Why not more articles on China’s reserve growth? And just who are Chinese banks lending to?
Yves Smith asks why the stunning $75 billion increase in China’s April reserves hasn’t attracted more press attention. It is a good question. Part of the answer is that many -- journalists as wel…
January 28, 2011
Myanmar
Suu Kyi in the New Yorker
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the crowd during a ceremony to mark the country's 63rd Independence Day at the National League for Democracy (NLD) head office in Yangon Janu…
