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For a small group of Guantánamo Bay detainees, life is moving from one island paradise to another. The United States announced Tuesday that it will transfer as many as 17 Chinese Muslims from the Cuba prison to Palau, a small Pacific island nation 500 miles east of the...
So how does Tengzhong, a private company based in China's southwestern Sichuan province, hope to revive Hummer? The company has offered few details. It manufactures heavy machinery, road and bridge construction equipment, and special-use vehicles like dump trucks and cement mixers. With fuel prices remaining high, Tengzhong may...
Other buying opportunities will arise as Western banks, particularly those that have been bailed out by their governments, exit the world stage in order to refocus on their home markets. When these institutions regain their strength and start venturing out again, however, they may well find Chinese and other Asia...
Evolutionary psychologists have a cynical term for cooperative, procommunity behaviors like buying a Prius or shopping at Whole Foods or carrying a public-radio tote bag: competitive altruism. Cynical, but accurate. As several studies (like this one) have shown, altruistic people achieve higher status, and are much more likely to...
And just yesterday - fortuitous timing for Geithner - both the U.S. and China reported economic data that buoyed equity markets on both sides of the Pacific. In China, the monthly purchasing manager's index for manufacturing was stronger than expected, showing "for the first time that policy is really gaining traction...