China’s economy: Does Xi Jinping need a Plan B?

Property is just one of the indicators flashing red in China’s S$23.8 trillion economy. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read More

China’s Plan B to Save the Economy: A Crusade Against Busywork - MSN

When China’s top leaders pledged to act more aggressively to stimulate economic growth, they rounded off their remedies with a political order: Have fewer meetings and cut the busywork. Read More

Xi Jinping, China’s Leader, Nods to Economic Challenges - The New York Times

China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, veered momentarily from his usual talking points in a New Year’s address to acknowledge the challenges of the country’s faltering economy and vow that the ... Read More

China economy: Xi Jinping needs a plan B - The Sydney Morning Herald

With the property sector continuing to sink – the value of new home sales (in data provided by China’s top 100 real estate companies) fell almost 27 per cent in August from a year earlier, an ... Read More

China, Xi Jinping Are Hiding Economic Chaos. That's a Red Flag for US, World. - Markets Insider

Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese government have a brilliant plan to deal with the country's economic turmoil: hide how bad it is. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced ... Read More

A Weaker China May Be a More Dangerous One - The Atlantic

But Xi can’t hide China’s economic woes—or hide from them. The problems are not just a post-pandemic malaise, or some soon-to-be-forgotten detour in China’s march to superpower stature. Read More

Is Xi Jinping Out as President-for-Life of China?

In China, the world is witnessing the possible return of a far more technocratic elite that favors scaling back direct confrontation with the West. Read More

Will Xi’s manufacturing plan be enough to rescue China’s economy? - Financial Times

It was also listed as the government’s top economic priority for 2024 by Xi’s number two, Premier Li Qiang, when he confirmed China’s economic growth target of about 5 per cent earlier in March. Read More

Why Xi Jinping Is Coming to the Economy’s Rescue - What’s News - WSJ Podcasts - The Wall Street Journal

Coming up, we'll look at why Xi Jinping has finally decided it's time to jolt China's economy and whether his stimulus package is likely to be enough. That story and more after the break. Read More

Why Xi Jinping Is Coming to the Economy’s Rescue - The Wall Street Journal Google Your News Update - WSJ Podcasts

A.M. Edition for Oct. 17. WSJ correspondent Lingling Wei explains what convinced China’s leader to embrace broad stimulus measures after resisting prior calls to do so, even as he holds off on a ... Read More