The Chinese have let it be known since the death of Mao Zedong and the purge of the “Gang of Four” that they would in future draw on credits from foreign governments as well as other sources to finance imports of technology. According to western conjectures China’s capital requirements may...

The shortage of raw materials and the difficulties of ensuring adequate supplies of primary products are subjects whose topicality has become evident to everybody at least since the energy crisis. The policy of ensuring adequate supplies of raw materials, however, raises the question of whether,...

Shipping and ports are like Siamese twins: neither can live without the other. The trouble is that due to rapid technical progress in shipbuilding it has become difficult to provide the shipping industry with both in the right proportion and at the same time.