Transformed
In 2014, the movie "Transformers: Age of Extinction" marked a turning point for Hollywood in China: a kind of reverse censorship in which a studio...
NBC’s Olympic Tightrope
With significant business interests in China, NBC is facing tough choices about how to cover the Olympic host country.
Michel Lowy on Investment Opportunities in China Right Now
The CEO talks about Evergrande, Kaisa, China’s bond market, and just how widespread the problems in China’s real estate sector are.
Matteo Maggiori on Who Really Owns Listed Chinese Companies
The finance professor talks about the rise of China in the offshore world, and why its 'mind-boggling' that international investors have accepted China's VIE structures.
Sundown for Suncity
How Alvin Chau's Suncity empire touched casinos from Vladivostok to Melbourne, and what his downfall signifies for China, casinos and Macau.
Trust Games
The Chinese corporate bond market was designed for lending convenience, not the legal practicality of retrieving money. But with potential defaults by Suning and other...
The Trickle-Down Economics in China’s Poverty Alleviation Drive
A look at the companies that helped carry out Xi Jinping's signature policy initiative.
The Local Government Squeeze
How China’s property downturn could shake local governments.
China Must Restore Growth
China’s energy crisis and the Evergrande debacle do not pose systemic risks. But the persistent slowdown in economic growth does.
A Year of ‘Crackdowns’
In 2020, Jack Ma gave a provocative speech that reportedly contributed to the regulatory actions against Ant Group. A lot has happened since.
The Evergrande Cliff
Why did Chinese authorities allow the country’s largest developer to reach the brink of collapse?
China’s Shell Game
How China’s offshore companies are registered, and what purpose they serve, has long been misunderstood by analysts and economists. But documents in the Pandora Papers,...