After months of downbeat economic news and little action from the Chinese government, Beijing has announced a slew of stimulus measures. Are the stimulus measures enough to make a difference and are they going to work as long as secular trends...
Some observers have been predicting an economic collapse in China for decades. Others have long predicted that China would be stuck in a middle-income trap or some other type of economic stagnation. Might some of these predictions come true this...
In a small Chinese town where unemployment has run high during the COVID-19 pandemic, the local government has embraced a surprising remedy to joblessness: public toilets. Fugong Village, in Guangdong province, usually sees nearly half of its...
Three years of zero-COVID and a lingering property crisis have taken a toll on China’s economy. What are the prospects for an economic turnaround in the coming months? And if it doesn’t come to pass, what will a slowing economy spell for the...
In a statement carried by China’s state media after a meeting of the Politburo, a top decision-making body of the ruling Communist Party, Beijing said it will take targeted measures to solve issues in the economy. The Chinese economy is facing “...
Can financial turmoil in China play havoc with the rest of the world? It has already happened.
Amid concerns about a slowdown of Chinese economic growth, China’s largest e-commerce company is showing that business on its platforms is holding steady
Chinese cities have rolled out new measures over the past week to cool a home-buying frenzy that has seen prices skyrocket, marking a new round of tightening since policies were eased two years ago. More than a dozen of China's largest cities,...
China may be in for a long period of Japan-like stagnation rather than a single event triggering a crisis
A missed opportunity to improve the environment for foreign companies in China
There are reasons to be worried about China’s debt, but the risk of a 2008-style crisis is not one of them.
For the first time, Chinese companies have invested more abroad than foreign companies have invested in China
Chinese stocks helped offset news that Japan’s economic growth had ground to a halt.
Global uncertainty and headwinds continue to buffet the world’s second-largest economy.
Data hints at an even more unfavoring second quarter than the first....
On April 20, 2016, a panel of Financial Times correspondents and editors with China experience, joined by financier and occasional FT columnist George Soros, discussed rural-to-urban migration, wage growth, real...
Having banks and local governments deleverage and trim overcapacity are part and parcel with central government efforts to maintain stable growth by nurturing the supply side of the economy. But even as this is happening, the...
China’s economic outlook once again became the focus of attention for many last week. For one thing, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) listed the possibility of a hard landing for China’s economy as the topmost of the world’s...
Thousands of Chinese migrants who settled in Africa over the past 10 years now face mounting uncertainty as economic growth slows across the continent and back home in China. While there are no reliable estimates as to how many...
Recently Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), China’s central bank, had an interview with Caixin and talked about the yuan exchange rate regime reform, macro-prudential policy framework, digital currency, and other...
Xi Jinping is the most powerful Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, and with his sweeping actions and ambitious directives he has fundamentally altered the process by which China’s domestic and foreign policy is formulated and implemented. Xi’s...
On Tuesday in an article headlined, “Declaring War on China’s Currency? Ha ha,” the People’s Daily attacked billionaire investor George Soros for suggesting he might short the renminbi. The Chinese currency has dropped 5.7 percent since August...
China has changed dramatically over 30 years, and command-and-control economic management will not produce the results of the past.
The old command model has reached its limits: if China wants things to stay the same, it will have to change.
Investors are rushing money out of China as yuan weakens to lowest point since August.
Chinese shares slumped 5 percent on Friday, hit by regulatory and industrial sector worries, but the declines did not carry through to other major equity markets.
As the Chinese Communist Party leadership wrapped up its Fifth Plenum, the meeting at which the Party’s leadership set the Five Year Plan that will shape economic policy through 2020, what progress has been made on the “...
A series of investigations into apparent market violations emerged after the recent stock market turmoil, bringing down Zhang Yujun, an assistant chairman at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC); Cheng Boming, general...
Already, there's drama, drama, drama.
As of last year, more than 13,000 Chinese students were attending college in Boston, out of a total of 44,000 foreign students in the city.
China celebrates a new national holiday to honor the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Bearish options market bets climbed as traders weighed level of state support before a World War II parade this week.
The moves indicate the political sensitivities aggravated in recent weeks by several volatile issues.
August 24, which some have already dubbed “Black Monday,” was not a kind day to global equity markets. The rout began with a massive sell-off in China, where the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index plunged 8.49 percent in just one day. Those...
The panic may weaken demand for U.S. exports. But that could make some goods cheaper for consumers.
When China actually does take a tumble, Americans feel it in their pocketbooks and portfolios.
Shanghai Composite closes down 4.3%, a fraction above July 8 low.
Since Tuesday, the currency, the renminbi, has fallen 4.4 percent, the biggest drop in decades.
A slowdown in China is harder for its trading partners and manufacturing competitors than it is for China itself.
Weak economic data boosts stimulus hopes; investors signal confidence in Beijing’s support.
Shaken confidence in Beijing’s role in market led to wild swings in recent days.
Pressure remains from a continuing unwinding of leveraged positions and analysts said they aren’t optimistic about cash-backed state support.
Top executives from 21 securities firms spent the morning of Saturday July 4 pinned to government office chairs while the future of China’s stock markets hung in the balance.
They’d been summoned on a day off to the Beijing office of the...
The sudden collapse of the nation’s share boom left tens of millions of investors in shock. But a massive government intervention to prop up the market has laid bare the contradictions of a capitalist China.
It's been nearly six months since China began easing monetary policy and there's little sign of a rebound in growth.
New deposit insurance could shake the public’s faith in the long-held belief in failsafe government bailouts.
The world's No. 2 economy created 3.24M new jobs in Q1, down from 3.44 million during the same period last year.
In letter to German luxury car maker, dealers call on BMW to set more realistic sales targets.
China’s G.D.P. Slows to 7 Percent, the Weakest Rate Since 2009
Paulson says the United States needs a clear-eyed, coordinated, consistent approach to the formidable challenge from China.
The tumble could heighten worries about how a rising yuan hurt demand for Chinese goods and services abroad.
China’s steel and metals markets, a barometer of the world’s second-biggest economy, are “a lot worse than you think.”
