This Bystander is keeping an eye on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to India because it will provide an indication of how China and India are lining up on the climate policy debate. Or at least whether the U.S. is managing to put any daylight between the two countries’ position.
In short, it doesn’t [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘U.S.’
July 21, 2009
India-China Axis On Climate Change Moves ‘Green’ Closer To Trade Sanctions
May 31, 2009
Will Australia Please U.S. By Taking Gitmo Uighurs–Or Please China By Not
U.S. President Barack Obama has dropped a hot potato in the lap of Australia’s pro-Beijing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. He has asked him to take at least six and as many as 10 of the remaining 17 Uighurs being held at Guantanamo Bay.
Beijing wants them all returned. The U.S. won’t do that because of fears in [...]
May 16, 2009
Huntsman Reportedly Set To Be U.S. Envoy To Beijing
Jon Huntsman is set to be named as the U.S. ambassador to Beijing, according to the Associated Press. Huntsman is the moderate two-term Republican governor of Utah and was consider a potential presidential candidate in the U.S. elections due in 2012. He is also a Chinese speaker having been a Mormon missionary in Taiwan. He [...]
February 6, 2009
China And The U.S.: The Pressing Issues For The Clinton Visit
The first foreign trip by new U.S. President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, will be a swing through Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Jakarta. This underscores the importance of Asia to U.S. foreign policy, as if it could be anything else, especially in the current global economic slowdown.
The trip will force a clarity to [...]
February 5, 2009
China Not Really No 1 Car Market — Yet
Chinese car sales surpassing America’s for the first time makes for a good press headline but to this Bystander the substance and the symbolism don’t hold up for long once you start to pick them apart.
The comparison is based on annualizing December’s monthly sales, giving 10.3 million vehicles in the U.S. and an estimated 10.7 [...]
October 7, 2008
Taiwan Arms Sales A Storm In A Teacup
Beijing’s response to last week’s announcement of the U.S.’s $6.5 billion arms sale to Taiwan has been prompt if largely symbolic: cancellations of military and diplomatic exchanges with the U.S.
Several planned senior level visits and military-to-military exchanges for this month have been scrapped, according to the U.S. Defense Department. The U.S. State Department says China [...]
April 3, 2008
Paulson’s Flying Trip To Beijing Provides Little Cheer
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s flying visit to Beijing to prepare for the next round of strategic economic dialogue due in June was a glummer than usual affair.
Squeezed in between Washington appearances on Monday to announce his plan to restructure America’s financial regulation and a Thursday U.S. Senate hearing on the Bear Stearns bailout, Paulson [...]
March 31, 2008
Inflation More Than Washington Behind Yuan’s Rise Against Dollar
When U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson arrives in Beijing on Wednesday, the Chinese currency might coincidental break through the symbolic seven to the dollar level. As Richard McGregor writes in the FT “the currency has become a litmus test of Chinese responsiveness to U.S. complaints on trade.”
Yet what really is driving the recent strengthening of [...]
March 2, 2008
Trade News
The E.U. and the U.S. are expected to file a joint complaint to the WTO against China in the next few days over financial news and information. At issue is Xinhua’s monopoly over providing financial information to Chinese clients. This requires the big international groups such as Reuters, Dow Jones and Bloomberg to distribute their [...]
February 27, 2008
No 4 as No 1. Some Mistake, Surely?
Just ran across this Gallup Poll from earlier this month, asking Americans which of China, the U.S., the E.U., Japan, Russia and India is the world’s leading economic power, now and in 20 years. China easily tops both lists, a contrast to when Gallup asked the same questions in 2000 and the U.S. was the [...]
