Blog posts tagged "China"

November 28, 2011 6:05 pm 4 Comments

So from a chopper above the Thames I see a nation that used to build the world's infrastructure that now wants the world to build ours. Infrastructure spending not by our government, but from abroad -- from state guaranteed companies - from the Arab world and China paying for Britain's infrastructure.

November 10, 2010 1:22 pm 4 Comments

I am beginning to wonder if we are at a profound historical turning point in world economics.

November 9, 2010 11:58 am 1 Comment

Our Economics Editor looks at David Cameron's trade mission to China and asks whether Britain really stands to gain very much in a world where the emerging powers of China and India are increasingly calling the tune.

August 16, 2010 8:22 pm 3 Comments

China has become the second biggest economy in the world. When will it overtake America, the current number one, Faisal Islam asks.

May 11, 2009 1:20 pm No Comments

Economic diplomacy is back in a big way. That was the message from last month’s G20 summit, and it continues today with high-level UK-China chinwag. The system that failed the world plunging trade and global growth to contractions not seen since World War Two was a system that was international. Gaps in regulation existed between [...]

May 7, 2009 11:17 pm No Comments

The biggest surprise today was not the extra £50bn of Mervyn’s magic money to be created for the purposes of fertilising the embryonic green shoots spotted by stock market traders. Forget Barclays’ remarkably strong results, and Lloyds’ further revelation of the devastation wrought upon its balance sheet by the purchase of HBoS.

March 4, 2009 12:22 pm No Comments

SINGAPORE – When Gordon Brown said that he wouldn’t be dictated to by “a few speculators who want to make money out of Britain,” he was talking about Jim Rogers. Peter Mandelson called Mr Rogers “foolish“. Those were understandable responses to Mr Rogers’ assertions that post-oil-and-credit-boom Britain “had nothing left to sell” and that “sterling [...]

February 22, 2009 3:08 pm No Comments

SHANGHAI, CHINA – How is it that the country with one of the poorest populations in the world is the biggest lender to the richest? How can it be that apparently one of the prime agenda items for Mrs Clinton’s Chinese visit was her indebtedness to her country’s indebtedness. Well, welcome to Chimerica.   It’s the [...]