Photo by Li Yang on Unsplash China’s economy is increasingly splitting into two very different countries. One is a fast-growing, technologically advanced export machine, concentrated in coastal provinces with major technology firms, advanced manufacturing clusters and…

Photo by Catgirlmutant on Unsplash By Tony Fiddis: China Analyst China’s economy is not collapsing. That is the important caveat before the inevitable avalanche of headlines about “China’s decline” gets turned into something much more dramatic than the evidence…

Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash China is confronting a difficult mix of climate risk, fragile market confidence and escalating strategic competition. A potentially destructive typhoon is bearing down on the country’s south and east after weeks of flooding, while…

US-China Talks Create a Narrow Opening for Stability China’s diplomatic and economic picture is increasingly defined by a familiar contradiction. Beijing wants stable external relations at a moment when its domestic economy needs them badly, yet its policy choices,…

Beijing is attempting to steady a sharp market sell-off, a violent encounter has renewed concern around the Second Thomas Shoal, China’s renewable energy buildout is running into grid constraints, and Xi Jinping is advancing a global AI strategy built around Chinese…

Four developments underline the pressure points shaping China’s trajectory right now: a fragile effort to stabilise US-China relations, a potentially significant advance in Chinese artificial intelligence, an export boom masking acute pain in the domestic auto market,…

Four developments underline the extraordinary range of pressures and opportunities shaping China today: a deadly landslide near Chongqing, a sharper than expected economic slowdown, fresh allegations from Washington over the 2020 US election, and a notable shift in…

China is facing pressure across several fronts at once. A prominent economist has raised doubts about the true scale of unemployment. Trade tensions with Europe are hardening as China’s surplus reaches new highs. The US-China trade truce is showing renewed strain over…

China’s economy is expected to have lost momentum in the second quarter of 2026, exposing a widening divide between a powerful export sector and a persistently weak domestic economy. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect gross domestic product to have expanded by…

China opened the week with a heavy mix of disaster response, fiscal pressure, industrial tragedy, financial policy, and maritime friction. On one side, authorities were scrambling to manage the impact of a major storm system after nearly 2 million people were…