Relations between China and the USA began with the best of intentions: the USA would sponsor the normalization of China's status in the international community through trade in exchange for China's commitment to peaceful co-existence with the west. As an emerging economy, China has relied upon...

The Norwegian Government Pension Fund-Global is one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds and is one of the most transparent institutions of its kind. It also has an explicit mission aimed at integrating long-term investment with a two-sided ethical commitment: to corporate engagement...

The global financial crisis has shattered many illusions, one of which being that sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are properly treated as arms-length investment institutions subject only to global standards of good governance. In fact, in a number of East Asian countries SWFs have acted as...