Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China has seen a decline throughout 2012, and while Chinese investment overseas is growing, it remains cautious, and in some cases, not always welcome.

The lure of the Chinese consumer has tantalised global business since the beginning of openness and reform in the late 1970s

In his new book, Toxic Capitalism, European Chamber Public Procurement Working Group Chair Gilbert Van Kerckhove calls attention to an aberrant strain of capitalism being practiced in Europe

The protection of past achievements of the Europe-China economic relationship is currently the only factor keeping EU-China policy relations in balance.

As recently as the late 1980s, the Chinese shipbuilding industry was a hodgepodge of small, government-owned shipyards building hulls with techniques and technologies that were outdated since the Second World War.

In a new book, G.E. Anderson sheds light on the nature of ownership, business-government relations, central-local relations, innovative capacity and the perceived role of foreign players in China.