Hong Kong, China In 2011, China is to build 200 skyscrapers. The homeland of high-rise buildings – the United States of America – has 200 skyscrapers today. For the time being, the quantity of such buildings in China and in the States is identical. However, during the upcoming three years, China will take advantage of its overseas competitor. A new skyscraper will be appearing in China... 

Confidential diplomatic cables from the U.S. embassies in Beijing and Hong Kong lay bare China’s growing influence as America’s largest creditor. As the U.S. Federal Reserve grappled with the aftershocks of financial crisis, the Chinese, like many others, suffered huge losses from their investments in American financial firms — from Lehman Brothers to the Primary Reserve Fund, the money... 

A lone protester steps into the path of an oncoming tank near Tahrir Square as demonstrations continued for a sixth straight day, January 30, 2011, in Cairo, Egypt. Could the popular revolt against authoritarian regimes of the Middle East ever spread to China, the world’s most populous nation? And if so, does the United States have a policy to deal with it? The ticklish question has been hovering... 

Police officer stands guard besides the picture of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo outside the Chinese government liaison office in Hong Kong Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. Protesters rallied in Hong Kong on Sunday for the release of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner. Enraged by Nobel Committee’s choice, China to award rival peace prize. Only three weeks after the idea was first publicly floated,... 

In this file photo taken May 25, 2010, a dozen labor activists throw paper money in front of paper figures representing Chinese employees of Foxconn Technology Group, who recently died in China, outside the Foxconn office in Hong Kong. Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make southern coastal China the world's... 

Are you seeing more and more food from China in your supermarket? Have you noticed you can’t buy a single package of fish that isn’t from Asia? Do you think your food from those countries is processed in a sanitary manner, and thus safe to eat? Unlike the U.S., Canada, and Europe, China does not have laws regulating food processing. Many companies are using Hong Kong addresses for products... 

Moving swiftly, U.S. product safety authorities say they are launching an investigation into the presence of the toxic metal cadmium in children’s jewelry imported from China after disclosure of lab tests showing that some pieces consisted primarily of the dangerous substance. The promise to “take action as quickly as possible to protect the safety of children” followed by hours... 

A 13-storey residential building under construction in Shanghai collapsed on Saturday, killing one worker and highlighting the dangers of shoddy building in fast-urbanising China. The building, in the outskirts of the city, collapsed at around 6 a.m. (2200 GMT), with one construction worker killed, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The block of high-rise residential flats was shown toppled...