Shanghai aims to reopen more COVID-19-shut businesses, while Beijing battles on
All but shut down for more than six weeks, Shanghai is tightening curbs in some areas that it hopes marks a final push in its campaign against the virus.
China will be deglobalization’s big loser
History should be a stark warning to President Xi Jinping: if he allows Russia to divide the world with its war on Ukraine, it is China and its exporters who will pay the heaviest price.
Beijing is hedging its bets against geopolitical shock
U.S. efforts to slow Beijing's ascension on the global stage will not have a lasting impact, let alone stop China’s economic and technological rise.
A resilient China tries to navigate a hostile world
With its “dual-circulation strategy,” China is focusing on increasing self-reliance and thus its ability to withstand external pressures and disruptions.
China’s economic development is rife with new challenges and traps
China’s weak rule of law carries serious risks, including official corruption, which tends to increase inequality and thus could undermine efforts to avoid the middle-income trap.
How to withstand China’s property meltdown
Some of China's richest people were forced by the government to part with prized assets, and they were lucky they did.
China's declining birth rate looks almost impossible to reverse, a trajectory with profound implications for its economic and social prospects.
China's got problems, but inflation ain't one
China looks determined to quash — rather than live with — COVID-19. An overly muscular economic response, too, may do as much harm as good.
The Made in China plan is back, and it’s better
State planners released a five-year smart manufacturing development plan in late December that aims to digitize 70% of the country’s large enterprises.
China can have cheap coal or common prosperity. Not both.
Operating 24 hours a day, the only way coal mines can increase output in a hurry is to skimp on maintenance, making for a dangerous situation.
Post-peak China at a crossroads
Has Beijing squandered the years of power China had gained because of its economic strength and the problems faced by Western countries since the 2008 global financial crisis?
Turning inward: Why China continues to rise
The heyday of globalization soon could be replaced by a post-pandemic era shaped by national-security concerns and border controls.
