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China joins carbon tax protest
Beijing has joined a growing clamour of complaint about US plans for a carbon tax on imports from countries without their own emission caps, warning it could set off a global trade war
New masters hold key to Africa recovery
China’s purposeful march across Africa over the past decade is challenging western assumptions about the continent in multiple ways
China to allow renminbi trade payments
Beijing moves towards reducing reliance on the US dollar with new rules that will enable importers and exporters to settle their payments to select Chinese companies in renminbi
China recovery hopes gather pace
China’s manufacturing and business-activity indices both finished in positive territory in June, confirming that the world’s third-largest economy is continuing to expand amid a mixed picture elsewhere in Asia
Lex: Repsol
After ambushing Unocal, then bagging various smaller targets in sniper attacks, China is now using the pincer movement
Chinese talk to Repsol about Argentine arm
Spanish oil company and two biggest mainland oil groups in talks over possible asset purchases and joint ventures
China’s corporate debt sales overtake Japan
Record issuance of bonds – $96.7bn in the first half of 2009, compared with Japan’s $76.3bn – reflects the incremental steps Beijing is making to expand the market
Analysis: Exiting the dragon
World finance: As battered western banks sell down stakes in China’s big lenders, their ambitions to profit from the world’s biggest emerging market are in jeopardy
Editorial Comment: A breach in China’s Green Dam
China has the right to take action against internet content that offends against its social and cultural mores. But government-sponsored filters are a chilling tool of social and political control
Demonstrators mark Hong Kong anniversary
Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents took to the streets to march over issues ranging from democratic elections to better governance of banks as the city marked the 12th anniversary of return to Chinese rule
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Chinese IPOs
The resumption of festivities is long overdue, but more important is the regulatory overhaul that accompanies it
