Asian economy

Gateway of India

The balance of global economic power is slowly shifting from West to East, with China, the world's most populous nation, and India leading Asian economic growth in the past decade.

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Bare branches

(20 November 09)– Subscriber only Secure padlock

China is a country of hyperbole - but stability and growth? Don't count on it, says Bill Bonner.

Obama's chill welcome in China

(20 November 09)

Trade spats and the US budget deficit were centre stage as Barack Obama paid his first visit to Beijing since becoming president of the US.

Apartment buildings in Hong Kong © Jerome Favre/Bloomberg News

The two bubbles building in Hong Kong

(26 October 09)

Cash-rich millionaires from mainland China, and America's easy-money policies, are fuelling bubbles in Hong Kong's property market and stock exchange. So are these two bubbles about to burst? Cris Sholto Heaton investigates.