The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2027 is coming into focus after the House and Senate armed services committees advanced their versions of the bill earlier this month.
Assets manager Blackstone Group LP has agreed to purchase a 40 percent stake in one of China’s largest shopping mall developers in a deal that could be worth as much as $400 million, according to Bloomberg. Blackstone bought its stake in SCP Co. Ltd. at the beginning of November, just as SCP disclosed that another […]
Organizer: US Department of Commerce Location: Washington, DC Date: October 31 – November 1, 2013 Web: http://www.selectusasummit.com/ Contact: SelectUSA Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 (202) 482-6800
The Coalition of Services Industries (CSI) would like to invite you to our annual Global Services Summit, a one-day event which brings together key trade leaders and policy makers from around the world to discuss current international trade issues, with specific interest in services. This year our theme focuses on services moving forward; the opportunities, […]
By Catherine Matacic First, it was Hong Kong. Then, it was New York. Now, Alibaba is mulling a London listing for its potential $15 billion IPO. According to sources at talks with UK officials in Hong Kong, Alibaba senior executives expressed “huge interest” in an IPO on the London Stock Exchange. But this could be […]
China’s biggest state-owned oil company is preparing to pay more than $2 billion for Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s Peruvian assets, according to Bloomberg. A sale could come as early as next month, and would help finance Petrobras’ $237 billion plan to build refineries, develop deepwater fields, and increase its output. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has […]
Organizer: American Society of Transportation & Logistics Location: Westin Hotel, Chicago, United States Date: October 28-30, 2013 Web: http://astl-china.org/SALCE2013-Chicago/indexEnglish.html Contact: Nathan Fourman Email: [email protected] Phone: +86 13880057664
By Joseph Luk Recent severe smog incidents in northeast China have cast the country’s environmental problems back into the spotlight. In Harbin, air pollution was so thick—surpassing World Health Organization standards by more than 40 times—that the municipal government closed roads, shuttered airports and suspended classes in more than 2,000 schools on October 22. In […]
The Boeing Company has secured $20.7 billion in commitments from Chinese state-owned airlines and private leasing firms, according to an exclusive Reuters report. The deal represents China’s first orders for Boeing’s upgraded short-haul aircraft, the 737 Max. According to multiple sources, Boeing expects about 200 orders from the confidential deal. Although details of the Chinese […]
By Steven Feldman Editor’s Note: This essay is excerpted from the book, Trouble in the Middle: American-Chinese Business Relations, Culture, Conflict, and Ethics and reprinted with permission of Routledge. Read an interview with the author here. The American-Chinese disagreements over intellectual property rights (IPR) are clear examples of “trouble in the middle,” though the problems […]
