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-part series on world food prices by NPR. And China's rice farmers certainly don't seem to be reaping the ben...

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 the fiasco. “The negative impact of the US subprime crisis on the domestic economy seems so far smaller than originally expected,” he said.Inte...

China is the second largest automobile market in the world and now the world's third largest automobile producer, behind the US and Japan. Automakers produced 8.88 million motor vehicles last year, up 22.02% from a year earlier, including 6.38 million passenger vehicles and 2.5 million commercial vehicles.And more impressively, China has surpassed Japan ...

The South China Morning Post leads its China coverage with the return of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin. Seemingly content to exert influence from behind the scenes since his official retirement in 2004, Jiang chose as his vehicle for re-entry to public life a 16-page academic paper on national energy strategy. In his presentation to the executive arm ...