Vast pool of engineering talent seen as a potent driving force for country’s challenge to US tech supremacy.
Chinese investment in Brazil is soaring as firms eye the vast potential growth in South America’s ‘blue ocean market’.
5 Dec 2025 - 8:27AM videocam
In Maotai town, baijiu producers diversify offerings while expanding to markets such as Hong Kong and Southeast Asia amid a culture shift and economic challenges.
Peking University professor says China’s next five-year plan could provide the necessary momentum to shift more public resources to households.
17 Nov 2025 - 10:02AM videocam
Beijing wants diplomatic solution but may take countermeasures if Dutch side refuses to budge, analysts warn.
14 Nov 2025 - 7:30PM videocam
With 15th five-year plan promoting consumption, Peking University expert spells out imbalances and contradictions in Chinese economy and ways to resolve them.
14 Nov 2025 - 10:00AM videocam
Analysts say other countries forced to walk fine line, while one argues business interests make it hard to pick sides.
Officials propose boosting direct and local levies, curbing tax breaks and tapping new sectors to shore up local revenues and fund social spending.
The island province will launch a separate customs regime in December, with the president urging officials to ensure a smooth transition.
Beijing says The Hague’s interference in semiconductor firm exacerbates global supply-chain instability, despite recent trade concessions.
4 Nov 2025 - 10:45PM videocam
The move comes as Beijing steps up efforts to clear up masses of ‘hidden debt’ accumulated by local governments.
4 Nov 2025 - 7:00PM videocam
Divergent interests, new governments and Washington’s influence complicate Beijing’s efforts to forge deeper economic ties with Japan and South Korea.
4 Nov 2025 - 10:54AM videocam
Progress on other contentious points during presidential meeting masks ongoing US-China tensions over technological sovereignty and export controls, analysts say.
31 Oct 2025 - 4:38PM videocam
Why is the famed demolition and reconstruction approach that bottled lightning in Datong city increasingly seen as outdated? And what are the alternatives?
Huang Yiping recommends ‘more aggressive’ macroeconomic policy from central government to aid those affected by property crisis.
27 Oct 2025 - 5:13PM videocam
Negotiations in Malaysia suggest both sides are positioning for a potential meeting, but substantial policy shifts remain uncertain.
Both sides will ‘need to have some kind of self-restraint’ to move past a recent flare-up in tensions, Tsinghua University professor says.
27 Oct 2025 - 2:13PM videocam
During Bund Summit in Shanghai, Robert Rubin flags long-term economic implications of Trump’s policies, including for the US dollar’s global standing.
27 Oct 2025 - 2:20PM videocam
President Trump’s mostly optimistic remarks seen signalling desire for a deal, but some analysts still question whether one will manifest in the near term.
21 Oct 2025 - 8:04PM videocam
The third-quarter figure brings yearly growth to 5.2 per cent, meeting expectations but prompting calls for policy support from analysts.
As economies look to diversify rare earth supplies in wake of China’s broad export controls, analysts say measures will be hard to implement.
With both sides seeking leverage, US frames flare-up as ‘China versus the world’ but finds itself accused of adopting ‘double standard’.
Beijing defends rare earth export controls against US claims of disruption, calls on Dutch government to cease ‘interference’ with Nexperia.
As China’s fourth plenum and new five-year plan approach, analysts say trade conflict with US could sideline other issues and create unity.
China’s Ministry of Commerce said the two sides have continued to communicate, urging Washington to ‘show sincerity’ after flare-up.
While US President Donald Trump’s threat of 100 per cent tariffs triggered alarm bells, experts said neither side wants to derail talks.
13 Oct 2025 - 11:25PM videocam
While the old ‘megaproject’ model was effective, upcoming blueprint could provide outline for an updated, tech-driven outlook.
13 Oct 2025 - 9:16AM videocam
Beijing targets 14 entities, most of them based in the US, on the same day it imposed new rare earth export controls.
Wider restrictions on rare earths, other items intended to give Beijing greater leverage in coming negotiations with the US, analysts said.
9 Oct 2025 - 7:19PM videocam
Series of 8 op-eds in People’s Daily sets the scene for major Central Committee meeting that will discuss next 5-year plan.