National Geographic's May issue has just hit the net and is dedicated to China. Along with the requisite gallery of incredible photographs, there is also a series of articles focusing on social and economic forces that are shapin...

Is China to blame for soaring global food prices? Not as much as everyone seems to think says Nicholas Lardy, an economist with the Peterson Institute of International Economics in Washington. Lardy is quoted in the second instalment of a five-p...

SA editor Judy Well rounds up the global impact of the US subprime crisis on Seeking Alpha. She cites an AFP report in which People’s Bank of China chief Zhou Xiaochuan claims China largely survived th...