The Wall Street Journal leads its China coverage with an article on China’s increasingly complex inflation problem. Policymakers are worried because price rises have begun to spread from food, where they were previously concentrated, to other goods and services. Although headline inflation declined from its peak of 8.7% in February to 8.3% in March, th...

-Alexander Molyneux, Citigroup's head of metals and mining in Asia, expects that China’s growing appetite for natural resources will likely drive a wave of offshore acquisition by Chinese companies looking to increase their access to and supply of commodities. In particular he thinks that nickel, copper and zinc will be the areas of greatest inter...