From all the hysteria Down Under, you might think Australia is at risk of invasion — by Chinese cash. China’s economy certainly is increasingly influential, but the regulatory backlash from Canberra has all the makings of a self-inflicted wound. Australia has announced limitations on foreign purchases of power utilities and land. In case anyone missed the message, the man who ...

Donald Trump said he got a ‘great deal’ in renegotiating America’s bilateral trade agreement with South Korea. This is the first trade pact Trump has successfully revised, and it reflects the intellectual core of his America First approach to trade: The US can use its great economic and geopolitical leverage to drive harder bargains with weaker powers. That approach appears ...

In operation for more than 40 years, this outfit has grown to $106 billion in assets with investments in more than a dozen countries. Most of that is in China. Its returns probably wouldn’t have you celebrating — 12.8 percent last year on a return-on-equity basis, 4.6 percent if you’re looking at return on assets. But it has never posted ...