Tag: China

CEO and chief designer of SpaceX Elon Musk, left, and Export-Import Bank chairman and president Fred Hochberg speak at the 2014 annual conference of the Export-Import Bank on April 25, 2014 in Washington. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

For every winner Export-Import Bank creates, there’s also a loser

Timothy P. Carney · June 28, 2014 9:00 pm

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, right, and Myanmar President Thein Sein pose for the photo before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Saturday, June 28,2014. (AP Photo/Wang Zhao, Pool)

China says it will never seek regional hegemony

Washington Examiner · June 28, 2014 2:28 pm

FILE - In this June 26, 2014 file photo, China's Taiwan Affairs Office Minister Zhang Zhijun speaks to media after his visit with officials at the city hall in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The Chinese envoy on a historic visit to Taiwan on Saturday, June 28 canceled two events after protesters threw paint on his motorcade. Zhang skipped visits to a fishing harbor and another village in southern Taiwan, but kept the rest of his schedule despite the continuing protests. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)

Protesters disrupt China envoy’s Taiwan trip

Washington Examiner · June 28, 2014 1:32 pm

US to ask China to restart cyber working group

US to ask China to restart cyber working group

Matthew Pennington · June 27, 2014 2:49 pm

Hong Kong lawyers march in a Hong Kong street, Friday, June 27, 2014. Hundreds of Hong Kong lawyers dressed in black have marched in silence to protest a recent Beijing policy statement they say undermines the Asian financial hub's rule of law. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Beijing meddling with HK, protesting lawyers say

Kelvin Chan · June 27, 2014 1:45 pm

If our government wants to get more arms to our allies, a direct subsidy -- such as DOD footing half the bill of a new fighter jet to Georgia -- would be far more direct and transparent, and it wouldn't create all the economic inefficiencies Ex-Im creates. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

The Export-Import Bank’s corporate welfare: War by other means

Timothy P. Carney · June 27, 2014 12:22 pm

FILE - In this April 20, 2014 file photo, a Chinese policeman checks his pistol before going on patrol in Shanghai, China. By arming its patrolling officers, China has abandoned its decades-old policy of unarmed local police in response to concerns over crime and terrorism, leaving Britain, Norway and New Zealand among the major countries where regular patrolling police still generally do not carry arms. (AP Photo, File) CHINA OUT

Shootings rise after China gives its police guns

Didi Tang · June 27, 2014 5:00 am

Fund manager Q&A: Sticking with China

Fund manager Q&A: Sticking with China

Stan Choe · June 26, 2014 6:27 pm

In this Monday June 23, 2014 photo, director Michael Bay, center, gestures to fans as he attends the premiere of movie "Transformers: Age of Extinction" at a theatre in Beijing, China. As box-office revenue growth flattens out at home, Hollywood studios are adding Chinese elements to their films to appeal to China, already the world's second biggest movie market with $3.6 billion in ticket sales last year and where studios reap much less money from merchandising and DVD sales. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

‘Transformers’ tries for delicate US-China balance

Louise Watt · June 26, 2014 12:43 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken in early 2014 and released by the family of Wang Aizhong, left, Wang, a leading figure of a small citizen movement in southern China, poses for photos with Chinese activists Hu Jia in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province. Wang, who has been a key figure of the amorphous Southern Street Movement that seeks an end to China's one-party rule and urges its followers to take to the street to make their appeals public, was released on bail on Wednesday, June 25, nearly one month after he was taken into police custody, his lawyers said. (AP Photo/Family of Wang Aizhong, File)

Chinese activist freed after Tiananmen anniversary

Washington Examiner · June 26, 2014 9:11 am

Protesters shout slogans as Zhang Zhijun, minister of Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office, arrived at airport in Taoyuan county, Taiwan, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. China has sent Zhang, its first ever ministerial-level official to Taiwan for four days of meetings to rebuild ties with the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own, after mass protests in Taipei set back relations earlier this year. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

In a first, China sends a minister to Taiwan

Ralph Jennings · June 25, 2014 9:06 pm

US: China’s behavior offshore hurts its standing

US: China’s behavior offshore hurts its standing

Matthew Pennington · June 25, 2014 8:53 pm