by | Aug 20, 2026 | News
China’s economy currently has the peculiar look of a country trying to sprint while wearing concrete shoes. On one side, households are pulling back, businesses do not want to borrow, young graduates are struggling to find work, and investors are hiding in government...
by | Aug 18, 2026 | News
Photo by TruckRun on Unsplash China’s economy is increasingly resembling a two-speed train, except one carriage is packed with lithium batteries, industrial robots and AI hardware, while the rest is rattling backwards into a property crater. July’s economic data was...
by | Aug 8, 2026 | News
China has spent years trying to convince itself that the difficult bits of its economy are temporary: a property slump here, a local-government financing problem there, a bit of weak consumption, and a bit of youth unemployment. Meanwhile, the shiny parts of the...
by | Aug 7, 2026 | News
China’s economy is increasingly trapped by the very model that made it powerful. For decades, Beijing could rely on a familiar formula: households saved, banks channelled that money into factories and strategic industries, and the resulting products were sold to the...
by | Aug 4, 2026 | News
For all the talk of a US-China “truce”, the relationship currently resembles two men politely shaking hands while each quietly checks whether the other has brought a knife. Beijing and Washington are still speaking. They are still trading. They are even...
