Are China’s ports and shipping companies being used to spy on the world?
The growing reach of China across the global port industry is a decades-long trend that ...
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Here’s an issue that goes to the very heart of global supply chains, which were fundamentally transformed when China joined the WTO. On 11 December, a lesser-known provision in its membership expires that has hitherto made it relatively easy for countries to identify when Chinese firms were price-dumping. In order for that ability to be renewed, countries must refrain from categorising China as a “market economy”, according to this analysis from intelligence firm Stratfor, and foreign governments are beginning to hold wildly differing stances on the issue.
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