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Chinese resident Wang Nu,83, looks out the window of her house next to a coal fired power plant on November 26, 2015 in Shanxi, China. Getty Images Could China’s emissions of carbon dioxide already have peaked? New research from two U.K.-based climate institutes says…

China Huarong Asset Management Co Chairman Lai Xiaomin listens to a question from a reporter during the debut of the company at the Hong Kong Exchanges in Hong Kong, China October 30, 2015. Reuters With soured loans piling up amid…

Chinese leaders prefer incrementalism to big policy shifts, and the latest raft of policies is true to form. In setting the relatively high growth target, the leadership signaled to the Chinese people that it knows that meeting their expectations for…

The Chinese central bank, says Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan, is “neither a god nor a magician.” As WSJ’s Andrew Browne writes in his “China’s World” column: He was responding, in a written interview published by the financial magazine, Caixin, to complaints that…

Tourists visit ancient houses in the village of Hongcun, rural Huangshan city, Anhui province, China, December 5, 2015. European Pressphoto Agency As China’s economic growth limps along, a proposed revision to a law designed to protect the country’s cultural heritage has drawn alarm from some archaeologists…

Scott Morrison, Australia’s treasurer, speaks at the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia, on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016. Bloomberg News Australia approved the sale of the country’s largest dairy to a Chinese buyer, bolstering the government’s assertion that it remains…