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Talking Point

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More than enough

Why ‘overcapacity’ is the new buzzword in government circles
Feb 12, 2010 (WiC 49)

Chery Automobile has grand visions. In order to fulfill them, last month it began construction of a new factory in Wuhu. The plant in Anhui province will have a floorspace of around 1.61 million square metres. Lest that number seems a bit ...

Some like it hot – not Beijing

The government curbs runaway loan growth to stop economy overheating
Feb 5, 2010 (WiC 48)

There’s no economic bubble out there that’s about to go ‘pop’,” wrote dapper pundit Larry Kudlow. The American business news anchor was expressing his agreement with the editors of the Chicago Tribune that America was “enjoying a ...

How China’s internet is becoming an intranet
Jan 29, 2010 (WiC 47)

It is 2011, and even email is being curtailed. The good news: a revived post office, which is recruiting 100,000 new workers. Such was the online satire last week, prompted by continuing speculation that Google will exit the China market. ...

Time to panic about China’s overheating property market?
Jan 22, 2010 (WiC 46)

They start queueing early to buy their houses in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province. Many of the 1,000-strong throng had been there for the entire day, newspapers reported. Some customers had even camped out overnight, to be sure of a ...

A new state of mind

Bigger than Berkshire Hathaway, many still struggle to understand Sasac
Jan 15, 2010 (WiC 45)

A Google search on “Warren Buffett’s investment strategy” returns at least 260,000 page results. That seems rather a lot for a man who espouses simplicity in his investment style. Still, one factor that Buffett has cited himself for the ...

Little fanfare, big promise

New trade bloc points to China’s growing regional ambitions
Jan 8, 2010 (WiC 44)

Batik shirts were worn in Indonesia and silky ao dai in Vietnam. They buttoned up barongs in Manila, posed in ponchos in Chile and even donned Drizabones in Sydney. Granted: the meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum ...

The year in review

A look back at the key Talking Points of 2009
Dec 18, 2009 (WiC 43)

While economies across much of the world were gasping for air this year, China took a deep swig on the stimulus bottle and was soon back into the swing of things. In our final edition for 2009, WiC picks its way through the year’s Talking ...

Cloud with a silver lining

Will overcapacity help ward off the spectre of inflation?
Dec 11, 2009 (WiC 42)

It is not how many of us would choose to spend a weekend shortly before Christmas: closeted in a conference room full of planners, technocrats and party leaders debating the direction of the Chinese economy. But for those looking for signs on ...

Emission impossible?

China makes carbon intensity commitment on eve of climate conference
Dec 4, 2009 (WiC 41)

Three feet of ice is not the result of one cold day, the Chinese proverb notes. And change isn’t expected overnight either when it is global warming – rather than freezing – that is the issue in question. But are there signs that some ...

Its early investments lost money, but CIC has revived its performance
Nov 27, 2009 (WiC 40)

"Be nice to countries that lend you money” was Gao Xiqing’s suggestion, in an interview in The Atlantic magazine late last year. Gao, a former Wall Street lawyer and Hong Kong investment banker, serves as the de facto number two at ...

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