China and Europe: With its pandas for Britain and pledges for the eurozone, the tour by the vice-premier reveals much about Beijing's geostrategic goals

Rising inflation in China and financial turmoil in Europe rattled global markets, triggering widespread falls in stocks and commodities on investor concerns of slower economic growth

China's cash-flush state-owned power companies are going on a buying spree abroad, scooping up bargains with virtually no political opposition as Europe looks to reduce its debts. More »

A rising outcry in the US against China's alleged currency manipulation is being expressed in Europe more as a muffled complaint

A very interesting piece by Brad Setser, where he shows that the EU's currency strength and growing imports from China have offset the levelling in demand from America. His bottom line is that China's making money from us and lending it to the US.

European companies still have a stronger foothold in China's growing clean technology market than their American counterparts, according to Xiaomei Tan, China expert at the World Resources Institute (WRI).

It is illegal to import dairy products from China into the European Union, but Europe does import food that could contain milk powder originating in China.

China has overtaken Japan to become the second-largest economy in the world after the United States. While things are looking up for a German-fuelled recovery in Europe, China's progress has caught the attention of the US, where the economy continues to flounder.

There’s a rather strange mixture of images today with the news that Russia has killed roughly 1200 civilians in their invasion of Georgia while China opened the Beijing Olympics. Europe and the US must be watching with interest at China and Russia both flexing their respective organisational powers in two very differing ways…

阅读中文 | Read this in Chinese David Miliband today described China as the 21st century's "indispensable power" with a decisive say on the future of the global economy, climate change and world trade. The foreign secretary predicted that over the next few decades China would become one of the two "powers that count", along with the US, and Europe could emerge as a third only if it learne...