The author is Jack Perkowski, founder and managing partner at JFP Holdings The Shanghai Stock Exchange Index soared 59% last year, making Shanghai one of the world's best performing stock markets. Will Chinese stocks continue their impressive rise in 2015? Will the Year of the Goat become known as the Year of the Capital Markets? […]

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Because the US-led world order centered around a group of like-minded countries, which comprised less than half of the world, America cannot really be considered a global hegemon. Nonetheless, the US has played a vital role in world affairs for decades, and is likely to continue to do so, though in new and unforeseeable ways.

Foreign policy is already emerging as a central theme of the upcoming US presidential campaign, and both sides should recognize the need for a much-needed shift in America's global role. The key to that shift will be America's ability to retain the best – and abandon the worst – of that most American of notions: exceptionalism.

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Chinese classified information website 58.com officially announced that the company has acquired the real estate information website Anjuke.com for USD267.01 million in cash and stock. After the acquisition, 58.com will establish a real estate business cluster to integrate the real estate businesses of 58.com and Anjuke.com and the company will develop a full-sector business covering […]

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