Tag: Chinas
China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
When China’s leaders set an economic-growth target of “around” 5% for this year, the goal was widely agreed to be ambitious. Now the...
What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
China’s state is eating the private property market
At an upmarket housing development in Wuhan, sales agents want to make clear that their state-owned firm has severed all its ties to...
China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Bank of Jiujiang, a mid-tier lender from a southern Chinese river town, imparted some bad news on March 19th. In a rare disclosure,...
China’s stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over
Running China’s securities watchdog is a perilous job. A market rout can end your career, or worse. On February 7th, after weeks of...
China’s leaders are flailing as markets drop
In recent weeks, China’s economic policymaking has been not just inadequate but a little skittish. On January 23rd draft rules on video games...
Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
“Enough is enough,” declared a Hong Kong judge on January 29th of Evergrande, a failing Chinese property behemoth, and its two-year struggle to...
As China’s markets suffer, what alternatives do investors have?
Some foreign investors in China are most worried by the country’s souring relations with the West. Others fret about the unprecedented slump in...
China’s population is shrinking and its economy is losing ground
“HOW SHOULD one look at the Chinese economy?”, asked Li Qiang, the country’s prime minister, at the World Economic Forum in Davos on...
