The Missing Factor In Explanations Of China’s Economic Distress: Covid (Part 1: The Cover-Up)

The Chinese government has suppressed information about Covid's domestic impact since 2020. This is a major driver of the country's economic stagnation. Read More

Global Economy Still Strong, But China Trade Is Troubling

Trade risk is real, but that is mostly going to be felt in China. For now, global ... only one market taking this on the chin, and it isn’t the S&P 500. Incoming data show a soaring U.S. economy ... Read More

China Is Buying Gold Like There’s No Tomorrow

The global price of gold has reached its highest levels as Chinese investors and consumers, wary of real estate and stocks, buy the metal at a record pace. Read More

Don’t Underestimate the World’s Second-Biggest Economy

Yet it is also true that by 2023, China’s GDP was 20 percent bigger than it had been in 2019, the eve of the global pandemic, while the United States’ was only 8 percent ... control over the economy, ... Read More

China’s Economy Isn’t Gaining Much Steam. Why That Could Be a Problem.

It’s a problem because there is little ... a more aggressive effort to supercharge China’s economy. There is no doubt that the world’s second-largest economy is improving, given that a ... Read More

China’s Slowing Growth Won’t Be All Bad News for the Global Economy

To begin with, it is a mistake—albeit a very common one—to refer to China as the global engine of growth. Its growth is indeed the largest ... Recall that any economy has only three sources ... Read More

China passes Germany in economic rankings

BEIJING, China (CNN)-- China has become the world's third-largest economy, surpassing Germany ... book "China 2020," said China will have other problems to overcome if it is to maintain its ... Read More

Our biggest China lie

It's all about perspective, argues Michael Pascoe, and Australia is increasingly out of step with the world on China policy. Read More

Global Economy

Gold ‘the only ... Global Impact newsletter, we take the temperature of US-China relations at a difficult time for Beijing as it seeks to solidify the recovery of the world’s second-largest ... Read More

China Economy

with Beijing eager to clamp down on inflated or manipulated economic statistics and uphold rules in the world’s second-largest financial market. China readies clean-up campaign with new version ... Read More

China to step up support for economy, flexibly use policy tools, Politburo says

China will step up its support for the economy, flexibly using policy tools, including banks' reserve requirement ratios (RRR) and interest rates, the Politburo, a top decision-making body of the ... Read More

China passes Germany in economic rankings

BEIJING, China (CNN)-- China has become the world's third-largest economy, surpassing Germany ... book "China 2020," said China will have other problems to overcome if it is to maintain its ... Read More