Tag: China
Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China’s exports
At last, it seemed time for a manufacturing take-off. Having struggled to compete with China’s industrial might, other emerging markets stood ready to...
How the Chinese state aims to calm the property market
Three decades ago much of the housing in China’s cities belonged to state-owned enterprises, which provided homes to workers at low rents. A...
The property firm that could break China’s back
Land in Shenzhen, China’s southern technology hub, is scarce. Plots in years past have grabbed sky-high prices. But when Vanke, one of the...
Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Just over six years ago, when Donald Trump first announced tariffs on Chinese goods, it was as if a bomb had gone off....
Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar?
The Plaza Hotel has New York glamour in spades. Sitting at a corner of Central Park, it was the setting for “Home Alone...
What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy
The EU is no stranger to overcapacity. Its economic landscape once featured butter mountains, milk lakes and other landmarks of excess production—the surreal...
What would get China’s consumers spending?
On a regular Tuesday morning, a large crowd has gathered outside a grocery store in Xuchang, a city of 4m people. Visit Pangdonglai...
Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
When Russia’s leaders stopped most of the country’s gas deliveries to the EU in 2022, they thought themselves smart. Prices instantly shot up,...
Chinese authorities are now addicted to traffic fines
What that tells you about the country’s economic woes
Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
The dollar is looking formidable. As American growth has stayed strong and investors have scaled back bets that the Federal Reserve will cut...
