and China in the Persian Gulf region, in particular in view of US (mis)handling of local conflicts and China's expanding … power vacuum and opportunity for China to edge in. China has expanding economic involvement in the Gulf and has overtaken … the US as the biggest importer of oil from the GCC. With expanding trade, investment and contract work in the Gulf, China …

China is a rising global power with a growing role and impact on the world's energy markets as well as on the Earth …'s climate system. China pursues its development in an essentially non-confrontational manner, a vision encapsulated by the … notion of peaceful rise which is viewed positively in the world's major capitals. Nevertheless, China's rapid growth …

This paper analyses the integration of China and India into the global economy. To this end, it presents estimates from … China’s trade intensity is higher than fundamentals would suggest, whereas the converse is true for India. Second, Chinese …, China’s exports of services tend to complement its exports of goods, while India’s exports are growing only in deregulated …

This paper deals with two related issues: the sustainability of China’s exchange rate regime and the opening up of its … to avoid disruptive capital flows. The paper discusses China’s twin surpluses of the current and capital accounts and … the outlook for Chinese capital flows should barriers to capital movements be lifted. It argues that whether China …