Maritime Silk Road shows way forward

An "inflection point" in mathematics occurs when there is a change of curvature, say from concave to convex, at a particular point on a curve.

Growth pangs

This year begins in a climate of considerable global economic uncertainty.

2015 outlook

Stephen Roach, former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and author of Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China

Tipping point

Investment flows in and out of a country do not usually excite much interest - but in the case of China, 2014 may prove an exception.

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A new era of investment in Africa

A scale weighing China's outward direct investments across the globe currently tilts heavily toward Asia, at a whopping 70 percent of total volume by 2013, most of which was poured into Hong Kong.

China's spending on fast track

This year is a milestone for outward direct investment from China. The nation's outward investment is predicted to match or exceed the foreign direct investment flowing into China's mainland from other countries and economies.

A year of growth, within and without

A call to promote exchanges between Chinese and African media by delegates at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in 2012 in Beijing allowed me to land a prestigious opportunity to work and train in China for one year.

The only way you'll find the answer

A minibus that operated in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, in the late 1980s carried the inscription "Travel and see". I did not understand the real meaning of that until I started traveling to other countries from the mid 1990s.

Lessons of a killing and an election

When I left Cameroon 11 months ago I knew very little about China. Yes, I knew it had become an important partner to Cameroon in recent years, that its economy was surging ahead, with growth in the double digits, and that some of its big cities were blighted by air pollution.

10 things worth knowing about China

To know and understand another country it is better to travel more than 10,000 kilometers than to read 10,000 books.

Vast potential, big challenges for investors

Africa has become a huge magnet for foreign direct investment as a result of uninterrupted economic growth by big African countries for more than 10 years. In that time, the continent's GDP has grown about 6 percent a year on average.