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For China, ‘pivotal’ 2025 will put economic choices to the test: Asia Society

How China deals with simmering trade disputes, weak domestic consumption and advanced manufacturing hurdles ‘will shape its trajectory for years’.

China's economic recovery

China rallies world’s economic groups, decries protectionism at ‘1+10’ dialogue

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US-China relations

Chinese students in US advised to return to campus before Trump takes office

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China Economy

China trade

What’s eating at Guangdong? For China’s economic champ, the hits keep coming

Malformed by manufacturing malaise, pummelled by property, and targeted by tariffs, the hits keep coming in the southern powerhouse region.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

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China's economic recovery

What are key concerns of China’s private firms? Survey flags raft of hardships

Most polled firms lament losses, and few plan to increase investments in the foreseeable future as economic challenges mount.

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China trade

China cutting e-commerce red tape to ease export of small packages, support jobs

New policies aim to shore up China’s competitiveness in global manufacturing and e-commerce while alleviating worrisome youth-unemployment pressure.

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Will Trump’s threats push China and Japan closer together?

Relations between the Asian powers have become highly strained in recent years, but officials from both sides are now talking up the value of cooperation.

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Japan and China have greater incentives to deepen economic ties amid rising global uncertainties. Photo: Reuters
Japan and China have greater incentives to deepen economic ties amid rising global uncertainties. Photo: Reuters

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China trade

Cambodia says Xi supports controversial canal, but China stance is still unclear

Former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen thanked Xi Jinping for backing Funan Techo Canal when they met this week.

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China trade

‘Never a good choice’: China’s retaliation for US curbs may be just starting

An expected escalation of the US-China trade war, and the Chinese public’s demand for a response, could light a fire under Beijing’s policymakers, former PBOC head says.

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China trade

China’s logistical dream: Beijing has a new plan to counter supply-chain threats

Efficiency is key as logistical revamp seeks to shore up manufacturing industries, including a digital transformation and new economic hubs.

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China’s new plan to improve supply-chain logistics calls on port-storage facilities to enhance efficiency in handling major exports such as electric vehicles, like those seen here at a port in Jiangsu province. Photo: AFP

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China trade

Amid mulling of more US-China decoupling, supply-chain expo offers opportunity

An elongation of critical supply chains bringing Chinese goods to the US is expected to be a boon for ‘made by China’ in third countries.

Interest in the agriculture supply chain helped drive traffic at last year’s inaugural China International Supply Chain Expo (pictured). This year’s event runs from Tuesday to Saturday. Photo: Xinhua
Interest in the agriculture supply chain helped drive traffic at last year’s inaugural China International Supply Chain Expo (pictured). This year’s event runs from Tuesday to Saturday. Photo: Xinhua

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China trade

Russia’s ‘economic isolation’ seen benefiting China amid fresh US sanctions

While trade between China and Russia may be affected in the short term, Beijing’s leveraging power in future negotiations is getting stronger, analysts say.

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Global Economy

China exports

As China’s vertical dramas charm US, soft-influence exports offer risks, rewards

Facing oversaturation in China, short-form video companies are finding lucrative new markets abroad, even amid geopolitical tensions.

Policy

China’s economic stimulus

China urges ‘positive dialogue’ with US as Trump’s threatened tariffs loom large

Deputy commerce minister also warns of tariffs’ adverse effects on the country imposing them, while pointing to China’s economic ‘resilience’ in face of external shocks.

A cargo ship loaded with containers berths at a Chinese port in Qingdao, Shandong province. Photo: AFP

China Economy

China manufacturing

China warns overheated solar industry to cool the competition, curb backlash

Revised ministry guidance serves to pour cold water on a photovoltaic sector that is rife with overcapacity concerns.

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An employee works on solar photovoltaic modules for export at a factory in China’s Jiangsu province. Photo: AFP
An employee works on solar photovoltaic modules for export at a factory in China’s Jiangsu province. Photo: AFP

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China trade

China to address global overcapacity concerns by cutting export-tax rebate

Move seen discouraging vicious low-price competition and outsized industry expansions, and Chinese manufacturer profits could take a hit.

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China airliners

China’s C919 order backlog raises urgency for foreign-part acquisitions

Officials hope to eventually source hi-tech plane components domestically to drive industrial self-sufficiency, but for now overseas producers are essential.

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With China’s C919 flying high, factory visits aim to replicate Boeing’s success

Taking a page out of rivals’ playbooks, China’s Comac wants to turn its Shanghai plane factory into a tourism hotspot.

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China’s Comac, the maker of its home-grown jets such as the C919, intends to expand tours of its factory in Shanghai. Photo: AP
China’s Comac, the maker of its home-grown jets such as the C919, intends to expand tours of its factory in Shanghai. Photo: AP

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China airliners

US, European plane-part giants aspire to power China’s widebody C929 ambitions

China is on a path toward self-sufficiency, but advanced plane parts from overseas remain essential to its aviation dreams.

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China Economy

China airliners

Explainer | China’s 4 commercial jets unboxed: from the rebranded C909 to a futuristic C939

More details about China’s home-grown passenger planes emerge at Zhuhai air show, with new sales and lofty aviation ambitions on display.

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Diplomacy

China-Africa relations

‘This is meant to be a demonstration’: how US plans to challenge China in Africa

The US and China are in a race to secure greater access to Africa’s vast mineral reserves with an infrastructure push by land and sea.

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OPINION
Alicia Garcia-Herrero,Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa

Opinion | Hardening US trade stance on China complicates EU’s balancing act

Alicia Garcia-Herrero
Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa
William Pesek

Opinion | Why Biden won’t beat China by out-Trumping Trump on trade tariffs

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Lijia Zhang

Opinion | 86 years after rape of Nanking, China should forge closer ties with Japan

Lijia Zhang
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Zhou Xin

Opinion | China’s zero Covid-19 policy is being felt heavily by local governments

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Stephen Olson

Opinion | Covid-19 and global tensions no match for trade’s resilience

Stephen Olson
Zhou Xin

Opinion | Xi Jinping’s grand economic strategy stems from China’s new perception of world

Zhou Xin
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