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James Kynge is editor of China Confidential, a research service on China at the Financial Times.
James has spent 16 of the last 28 years living and working in China, first as a journalist for the Reuters news agency, then for the FT as China bureau chief from 1998-2005. After that he headed up the Pearson group of companies in the People’s Republic until 2008.
His award-winning book China Shakes the World, published in 2006, was an international bestseller translated into 19 languages.
James is a regular speaker on China, with recent keynote addresses to investor conferences held by Goldman Sachs, UBS, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, CLSA and Standard Bank. Email James Kynge - -
Financial frailties might slow China’s growth
The investor delight that has greeted Beijing’s decision to remove the renminbi’s peg to the US dollar obscures a series of more worrying auguries for the country’s financial future
Are fears of China’s overheating overdone?
Though it is too early to call time on Beijing’s battle to tame its hot economy this year and forestall overheating, several trends suggest that the outlook for the second quarter is one in which cooling forms the dominant direction
China-US ties face challenge
The recent upsurge in trade with south-east Asia, Brazil, Africa and India may be enough to offset lost exports for Beijing, writes James Kynge
