Xi’s Message: The Economy Is Strong, and China Won’t Back Down

As Chinese leaders meet in Beijing, they are striking a confident posture despite serious challenges to the economy and growing pressure from the United States. Read More

China's Economy Is in Deep Trouble | Opinion

Because Xi Jinping is determined to take the country in an unsustainable direction, China is entering, as some call it, a "doom loop." ... Read More

China's economic woes are merely growing pains

When the U.S. enters a recession, typically every few years, the public seldom questions whether the economy has peaked. Yet China's recent sluggish growth has sparked widespread speculation about ... Read More

China slams US tariffs, says its economy is resilient but there are no winners in a trade war

China's commerce minister says Beijing will not yield to bullying and its economy can weather tariffs and other challenges, though there are “no winners in a trade war." ... Read More

China’s economy is headed for a ‘dead-end,’ and Beijing won’t do anything to stop it, scholar says

China's leadership is relying on an export surge to revive slumping growth, but those policies won't extract the world's second largest economy from ... more industrial capacity are ... Read More

China unveils big plan to fix its ailing economy and transform into a high-tech power

China’s leaders have spent the past week unveiling their plan to steer the world’s second-largest economy through looming challenges by transforming the country into a technological powerhouse and ... Read More

China sticks to an economic growth target of ‘around 5%' despite a looming trade war with US

China is keeping its economic growth target at “around 5%” for 2025 despite a looming trade war with the United States and other headwinds. Read More

3 Reasons China’s Slowdown Is Cause for Concern

However, there hasn’t been any data to support an increased level of investor interest in Chinese bonds. In addition to its credit woes ... of growth in China’s economy, accounting for ... Read More

Boosting China’s economy, downsizing US diplomats: SCMP daily highlights

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China and economy stories of the day ... Why Canada must engage China to ease US trade pressure. And why it won’t happen Canada will have to engage China ... Read More

Fiscal Stimulus May Only Solve Part of China's Economic Woes

China's main economic problem lies in its extremely imbalanced drivers of growth, Capital Economics' chief Asia economist Mark Williams wrote in a note. Although the market has high expectations ... Read More

China’s population woes deepen as marriage registrations plummet to lowest level since 1980

China recorded its lowest number of new marriages for four decades in 2024, in a sign that the country’s challenges with a ... due a range of social and economic factors. Read More