Sporting a white button-up shirt and black blazer, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma sat on stage with Charlie Rose to make his pitch to America. If you miss the opportunity to sell your products to China, you will miss the opportunity. You will miss the future. With a line like that, Ma — China’s richest man — could …

When I met Tony Martinez, the mayor of Brownsville, Texas, he had a somewhat wacky argument against the border fence that separated the town from Matamoros, Mexico. “We are about to become an interplanetary civilization,” he told me. “And here we are talking about a wall separating what is essentially the same community.” The reason he said so is that …

Bloomberg Chinese stocks were little moved by their addition to MSCI Inc.’s benchmark indexes, as investors weighed the symbolic importance of inclusion against the limited impact on short-term inflows. While MSCI’s announcement was a landmark step in China’s integration with the global financial system, it will initially have a small effect on the amount of foreign money entering the nation’s …