Trading with China

Find Chinese suppliers using . Fortune

has a on the company’s founder, Jack Ma, and his tremendous successes with online companies.

Chinese investing in U.S. banks

China even before the latest write-downs. Now that trend is accelerating.

Made in China – Buyer Beware

The lead paint scandal took a tragic turn as the Chinese factory owner at the center of this controversy has

Meanwhile, the Chinese government is trying to pass some of the blame to the exporters and US companies who accepted the products.

So many American companies transferred manufacturing to China to save money, and retailers like Wal-Mart encouraged this strategy. Now they are paying the price.

We take for granted the numerous regulations in the US designed to protect us. We’re now seeing the risks of outsourcing. Of course outsourcing a trade will continue, but relying on Chinese components and products just got a little costlier.

China takes on Boeing

in the airline production business against Boeing and Airbus? It will be interesting to watch this develop. China is purchasing tons of planes and wants to have domestic production for the future. This will test their capabilities, because their low wage advantage is less important in this industry.

Challenges for Murdoch in China

News Corp. :

Not sure if this was Murdoch trying to manage expectations but he was emphatic about the difficulties News Corp. faces in China, especially with MySpace. “We don’t do very well in China. … All I would say there is that nobody—and I challenge anyone to argue this—nobody, none of the American media companies or British media companies have made any impact there yet. … It is a vast market, but it is certainly a very, very sensitive one and as we have seen what happened to Google there and what happened to eBay there, it is very difficult, even to—to Yahoo, it is a very difficult market for outsiders.”

Tech firms accused of helping China's censorship of media

China is determined to censor the use of the Internet by its citizens, and activists are US technology companies of providing the tools to enable this censorship.

Chinese wines

The Chinese don’t drink much wine, but many predict that will begin to change as more Chinese get exposed to affordable wines. Surprisingly, the first wines they try might be made in China. Smart money is betting that .

Mass-produced Chinese art making inroads

Is there anythng in our future that won’t be made in China? Forbes reports that are becoming big sellers.

MySpace launching in China

Rupert Murdoch announced that .

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