Business / Corporate Aug 18, 2022

China’s lure for European companies outshines flaring tensions

Investment from the European Union into China was up 15% in the first half of 2022 compared with a year ago, data has shown.

Business / Financial Markets Jun 7, 2022

Marxism makes a comeback in China’s crackdown on ‘disorderly capital’

Since the end of 2020, when China’s Communist Party began vowing to rein in the "disorderly expansion of capital,” a regulatory onslaught has swept through the economy and stock market.

Business Feb 7, 2022

How China’s communist officials became venture capitalists

The municipal government of Hefei has pioneered a shift in Chinese capitalism over recent years in which local governments are increasingly taking minority stakes in private companies.

Business | FOCUS Nov 16, 2021

China faces GDP growth at 1990s levels amid Beijing’s property crackdown

President Xi Jinping seems willing to accept the lowest growth in three decades in order to reduce the country's dependence on its property sector.

Business Oct 8, 2021

China's energy crisis is hitting everything from iPhones to milk

Several companies have already experienced downtime at their Chinese facilities to comply with local restrictions.

Business | FOCUS Aug 2, 2021

Xi Jinping’s capitalist smackdown sparks a $1 trillion reckoning

The tutoring sector crackdown has triggered a growing realization that the old rules of Chinese business no longer apply.

Business / Economy Jan 15, 2021

A year after COVID-19 began, China’s economy is beating world

China’s enhanced role in a post-pandemic world increases the urgency of debate among the rest of the world about how to engage with Beijing.

Business / Economy | FOCUS Dec 17, 2020

China's move toward monetary tightening attracts influx of capital

People’s Bank of China Gov. Yi Gang has vowed to normalize policy, widening a divergence with other large economies in ways that will shape global capital and trade flows.