Indians are less likely to see the glass half full these days.
In the minds of investors, China is striking out.
The following 2012 ranking of the world's biggest is based on the combined volumes of oil and natural gas that these companies produce each day.
China's art market has become one of the world's most important in the past decade
Edward Allen, from the Council on Foreign Relations, writes at the NYT that economists are more inclined to blame globalization for declines in income.
If land and labor costs in central and western provinces continue to rise rapidly, factories would be unwilling to relocate there due to their inferior logistics network.
What makes a brand truly global and why the top brands from the West should not be complacent.
China's headlong rush into solar-energy equipment for export to the West has stirred global trade tensions.
Increasing, and increasingly dangerous, confrontation seems to lie ahead.