Research & Analysis

By Lauren Dodillet  China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) struck a deal with French utility company Électricité de France (EDF) earlier this week to pay more than $150 million for an 80 percent share in three of EDF’s UK wind farms. The Financial Times reports that EDF will retain a 20 percent stake, and continue […]

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By Lauren Dodillet  Dalian Wanda Group Corporation Ltd. is looking to buy a majority stake in Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, a Canadian-American film company. Wanda’s chair Wang Jianlin—the fourth-richest man in China—met with Lionsgate chair Mark Rachesky in October to discuss the acquisition, the LA Times reports. Despite the meeting, Lionsgate isn’t currently looking to […]

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By Lauren Dodillet Chinese state-run China Railway Construction Corp Ltd. (CRCC) signed an official construction agreement with the Nigerian government last Thursday for an $11.97 billion rail line that will run the length of Nigeria’s coast. It is China’s largest overseas contracting project to date. The line will be 871 miles long with 22 stops […]

The following excerpts are from former New York Times reporter Howard W. French’s most recent book, China’s Second Continent, which details the lives of China’s one million-plus migrants in Africa. Modern globalization’s first great wave has now crested, and is being overtaken by a newer and potentially even more consequential tide. In this new phase, […]

By Lauren Dodillet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott met last week in Canberra to sign a landmark Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between their two countries. A decade in the making, the deal gives China the opportunity to jumpstart service-oriented economic reform and allows Australia to shift its export focus to […]

By Stephanie Henry As business travelers to China know well, securing visas for short- or long-term stays can be an expensive and time-consuming process. But when Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping met in mid-November, they hammered out a deal that could ease burdens on Chinese and American travelers alike. The latest development introduced changes […]

By Lauren Dodillet US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a US-China agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions last Wednesday, wrapping up two days of bilateral meetings after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The deal pledges that the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters will take steps to decrease emissions by […]

By Lauren Dodillet President Enrique Peña Nieto has rescinded the contract won by a Chinese-led consortium last week to build a high-speed railway in Mexico due to questions over the deal’s legitimacy. Opposition legislators have questioned the transparency of the deal, claiming that the Mexican firms in the consortium, including Prodemex, Constructora y Edificadora GIA, […]