11/19/2015

China Makes Impression on the Global Art Market

Rising top-tier prices also bear the imprint of China. It was after all, Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei, owners of Shanghai’s Long Museum, who paid $170.4 million for modernist painter Amedeo Modigliani’s Reclining Nude, at a Christie’s auction

11/17/2015

Abe’s Central Asian diplomacy

There lie two big regions on its eastern and western flanks with an abundance of energy and natural resources.