At the same time, China has made life easier for British, French, German, and Japanese companies. The People’s Bank of China has steadily reduced its holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds, thus gradually constraining Washington’s ability to finance its deficit at low interest rates. ..…
Uprooting the Last Vestiges of British Imperialism . The story of Hong Kong is one of territory violently seized by the British Empire from China in 1841, being controlled as a colony for nearly 150 years, and begrudgingly handed over to China in 1997. . ... With..…
The former British colony, located on China’s southwestern border, exports some 5,000 products to the United States duty-free under a U.S. trade program for developing nations—another big plus. . ..…
French Jesuit, Père Joachim Bouvet, returned to France on the emperor's orders in 1697, bringing Chinese manuscripts for Bibliothèque Roi Paris, and recruiting more astronomers for China.. Under Louis XIV, one monarchy spoke to the other, across 4,000 miles and hundred years before the dispatch..…