NEW DELHI, BLOOMBERG -- Nobody pretends the People’s Republic of China is an entirely benign power, least of all its leaders in Beijing. Yet, even by the standards of what continues to be a remarkably...

SINGAPORE, BLOOMBERG --- Monetary medicine in Japan is keeping the economy alive, but with nasty side effects. The search for a new cure should begin with a simple question: What if the Bank of Japan...

SHENZHEN, BLOOMBERG -- In all likelihood, Pakistan will seek a $12 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund this week, its 12th since the 1980s and the largest one yet. This time, the IMF...

SINGAPORE, BLOOMBERG -- With China’s fiscal, monetary, currency and credit policies all taking a pro-growth turn, President Xi Jinping’s deleveraging campaign is clearly over. Or, at the very least, i...

HONG KONG, BLOOMBERG -- China doesn’t quite have the game sewn up. So bad is the West’s public-relations standing in the era of Trump and Brexit that it’s easy to see Chinese ascendancy as a welcome s...

WASHINGTON, BLOOMBERG -- You may not have noticed, what with the outbreak of trade war with the U.S. and all, but China’s economic diplomacy has had a bad few weeks. The country’s flagship Belt and Ro...

LONDO, BLOOMBERG -- David Cameron and Romano Prodi come from opposite ends of Europe’s political spectrum, but they have much in common. Both have left high office, boast an extensive network of conne...

MANILA, REUTERS -- Protests by thousands of people in cities across Vietnam are showing just how easy it is to unite public opinion and mobilise dissent when an issue has one key ingredient: China.The...

BALTIMORE, BlLOOMBERG -- (This is the third part of a series on China's effort to supplant the U.S. as the world's pre-eminent geopolitical power. Read the first two parts here: A Global Military Thre...

BEIJING, BLOOMBERG -- Almost any foreign official, businessman or journalist visiting Beijing has heard the mantra that China can’t be expected to open up its markets or meet more stringent internatio...