China's quick rebound expected to benefit the world

BEIJING: China’s economy is widely expected to rebound by the end of the first quarter as Covid-related disruptions wane, giving a much-needed boost to the ailing global economy, according to ... Read More

China revises up 2023 GDP, sees little impact on 2024 growth

China on Thursday revised up its 2023 gross domestic product (GDP) by 2.7% to 129.4 trillion yuan ($17.73 trillion), the head of the National Bureau of Statistics Kang Yi said at a press conference in ... Read More

China’s Economic Slowdown: Why Meeting 5% Growth Now Seems Impossible

China's economy struggles to meet growth targets, raising concerns about its ambition to surpass the U.S. as the largest economy by 2035. Read More

China's economy looks like a mess — but some sectors are quietly doing well in its '2-speed economy'

Despite these challenges, the world's second-largest economy isn't imploding ... the chief China economist at GlobalData TS Lombard, told Business Insider. "Consistent bad news from the property ... Read More

China's economy isn't on the verge of collapse, and markets are overlooking these indicators, China Beige Book says

The idea that China is teetering towards catastrophe is contradicted by some key positives, Shehzad Qazi, managing director of China Beige Book, told Bloomberg TV. "There's a dangerous consensus ... Read More

China released a blitz of stimulus measures to boost its economy. Now begins the balancing game.

China unleashed a stimulus blitz on September 24, jolting the markets to try to reverse the previously downbeat narrative on the world's second-largest economy. Right from the start, skeptics said ... Read More

Five reasons why China's economy is in trouble

China's economy is slowing down as it adapts to a punishing zero-Covid strategy and weakening global demand. Official growth figures for the July to September quarter are expected soon - if the ... Read More

China signals it's prepared to double down on support for the economy as Trump tariffs loom

Chinese leaders met this week to plot economic policy for the coming year and sketched out plans to raise government spending and relax Beijing's monetary policy ... Read More

China's economic model isn't working, but that doesn't mean the country's headed for a 'Lehman moment'

Recent chatter of China facing its own "Lehman moment" hasn't emerged out of thin air. President Xi Jinping is overseeing a nightmare cocktail of economic ... and it's climbed so fast over the ... Read More

What a censored speech says about China’s economy

A t this time of year, many policymakers want to know how fast their economies will grow in the year ahead. China’s leaders set themselves a still tougher question: how fast their economy “should” ... Read More

China is telling anyone who'll listen it's open for business again – but its economy has a Xi Jinping problem

China wants the world to know that it's open for business again. With a growing number of warning signs suggesting the country's post-COVID economic recovery ... shouldn't count on foreign ... Read More