1. China's foreign investment
(Panorama/Investment)

... there have been tortured debates and confused decision-making regarding the bid by China's National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), an SOE, for the Canadian oil producer Nexen, whose main property is in ...

2. Globalization and the challenges of our youth
(Panorama/Society)

... the 1989 Tiannamen Square events, Deng Xiaoping relaunched China's reform with his 1992 "Southern Tour".  The euro is also a child of the post-Cold War period.  It was driven by the desire of European ...

3. India's paradoxes
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... governance indicators.  On Transparency International's corruption perceptions index, India comes in at 95th, compared with China's 75th.  The World Bank's ease of doing business index ranks India at 132nd ...

4. China's reform in a bind
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

Yes, China's reform is in a real bind, and what's more, China has bad relations with virtually all of its neighbors.  Where will this head? The need for China to rebalance its growth away from exports ...

5. Human capital in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... student lists, with China's 86,000 students in 2009 accounting for 61% and Korea's 20,000 stduents representing 14%.  The next countries on the list are: Taiwan 5000 (4%), Vietnam 4000 (3%), Malaysia 2000 ...

6. Understanding the Rise of China -- Martin Jacques
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... is fundamentally different from other great powers like the US, India or Brazil which are multicultural.  Without China's Han cultural identity, the country (and civilization) China could not have held ...

7. Asia's low quality jobs
(Panorama/Society)

... has already been audited by the multinational companies, thus meeting the standards set by Foxconn’s clients." After growing criticism during 2011 about the working conditions at Foxconn (China's largest ...

8. Natural disasters in Asia
(Panorama/Environment)

... (over 200,000 deaths), the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (more than 200,000 deaths), Myanmar's 2008 Cyclone Nargis (140,000 deaths), Bangldesh's Cyclone Gorky in 1991 (140,000 deaths), China's 2008 earthquake ...

9. Asia's rising inequality
(Panorama/Society)

... had not risen in association with the rapid economic growth, the ADB estimates that China's poverty headcount would have fallen to 4.9% (rather than 13.1%), Indonesia's to 6.1% (instead of 16.3%) and India's ...

10. China's reform in a bind
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

Yes, China's reform is in a real bind, and what's more, China has bad relations with virtually all of its neighbors.  Where will this head? The need for China to rebalance its growth away from exports ...

11. Democracy in China?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... greatly from China's authoritarian capitalism. I wonder how he interprets the recent protests in Hong Kong and China? In the longstanding debates about Asian culture and values, some cultural theorists ...

12. Asian Century on Youtube
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... India and Japan. China's authoritarian capitalism makes it difficult for it to have open, cooperative relations with other countries.  Lingering historical animosity towards Japan, limits its ability to ...

13. Views of Asia's next generation
(Panorama/Society)

... This generation wants a voice. (vi) Geopolitics China is seen as a key to regional peace and prosperity -- but it is not clear whether China's rise is to be applauded, feared or both.  Terrorism and ...

14. China: is “state capitalism” in crisis?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

In this week's invited contribution, Emanuele Schibotto* asks if China's "state capitalism" is in crisis. In 2010, Ian Bremmer's book,  The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and ...

15. India's paradoxes
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... governance indicators.  On Transparency International's corruption perceptions index, India comes in at 95th, compared with China's 75th.  The World Bank's ease of doing business index ranks India at 132nd ...

16. State capitalism
(Panorama/Investment)

... (SOEs) while strengthening its hold over the large ones which are becoming wealthier and more powerful (even though the state sector only accounts for one-third of China's GDP compared almost all of it ...

17. The Economist on China
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

China's economy is not at great risk in the short term, because the government still has lots of firepower to keep it afloat.  But inefficient and wasteful investment is storing up problems for the longer ...

18. China's urbanization
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

The largest migration in world history is now taking place -- from Chinese rural to urban areas.  China's urban population has jumped from about 10% of total in 1949 to about 50% today.  By the year 2030, ...

19. China's reform challenges
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... be easy, it is essential for China to become a modern, harmonious, and creative high-income society. China's economic performance these past three decades has been spectacular.  Annual GDP growth rate ...

20. China's lack of global leadership
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... exposed to exchange movements.  65% of these reserves are in $US, 26% in euros, 5% in pounds sterling, and 3% in yen.  In this context, only 10% of China's trade is invoiced in the Chinese RMB.  The other ...