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March 15, 2009

Monetary Policy
SAFE seems to have started buying US equities in the spring of 2007, and didn’t stop until July 2008 ...

Jamil Anderlini of the FT has picked up on one of the surprises of the latest survey of foreign portfolio investment in the US: the $70 billion rise in China’s holdings of US equities between June 20…

SAFE seems to have started buying US equities in the spring of 2007, and didn’t stop until July 2008 ...

June 27, 2023

China
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions by Zongyuan Zoe Liu

One of the keys to China’s global rise has been its strategy of deploying sovereign wealth on behalf of state power. Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, China has doubled down on financia…

Play Tanzanian women holding red Chinese flags at Dar es Salaam.

June 20, 2011

China
Tackling Globalized Food Unsafety

A married couple from Shenzhen puts cans of milkpowder they bought for their baby into a backpack at a drug store at Hong Kong's northern rural Sheung Shui district, neighbouring Shenzhen on January …

A married couple from Shenzhen puts cans of milkpowder they bought for their baby into a backpack at a drug store at Hong Kong’s northern rural Sheung Shui district, neighbouring Shenzhen on January 31, 2011. China food safety concerns and a strong currency are prompting a flood of Chinese parents to sweep supplies of milk powder from Hong Kong shop shelves, triggering citywide shortages and angering parents.

May 21, 2015

China
Are China’s RMB Swap Lines an Empty Vessel?

As our recent CFR interactive shows, central bank currency swaps have spread like wildfire since the financial crisis.  In 2006, the Fed had only two open swap lines outstanding, with Canada and M…

Are China’s RMB Swap Lines an Empty Vessel?