Coming so shortly on the heels of the subprime crisis, the debate over the debt ceiling and the budget deficit is the last straw. Senior Chinese officials are appalled at how the United States allows politics to trump financial stability

Since mid-May, the United States has lived on borrowed time as Washington has debated multiple deficit-plans before the Aug 2 deadline. After last-minute twists

Where is China stashing its $3.2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves? The answer to that question in the past, everyone agrees, has been mainly in U.S. dollar

Even as the debt crises in Europe and the United States loom large and the global economic recovery falters, inflation is making a comeback worldwide. Indeed, e

The Obama administration and Republican Congress have been engaged in a very difficult negotiation regarding raising the US debt limit. US debt will reach the $

China is America’s leading foreign creditor. It came as no surprise, then, that while traveling through Asia last week U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave strong assurances to Beijing that policymakers in Washington would soon reach an agreement raising the country’s debt ceiling.

Dr. Bottelier explains why China is having second thoughts on the US economic model and how the debt crisis has damaged US's international image.

In a public statement, China's biggest state owned news agency, Xinhua, pushes U.S. to start acting responsibly to deal with the debt crisis. Andy Brown, Beijing Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal evaluates China's options.

The International Monetary Fund recently appointed French Minister of Finance Christine Lagarde as its new head. Lagarde's success continues the tradition o

The new round of talks between the United States and China on Asia-Pacific region policies and issues in the last week of June are significant to both Sino-U.S.