https://www.scmp.com/rss/323871/feed Jacob Dreyer is a writer and editor based in Shanghai. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Watching the US election campaign from China, there is a disorienting feeling of viewing an opposite and parallel world. In China, many economists fret that Chinese consumption is too weak. Chinese people are afraid to spend, and that leads to economic stagnation, maybe even deflation, as vendors with nothing left to cut dance on the margins of profitability. On January 1, my gym in downtown Shanghai abruptly closed; I found another location, and that one closed, too, on January 12. Streets of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3248652/why-us-and-china-are-unlikely-trade-places-any-time-soon?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3248652/why-us-and-china-are-unlikely-trade-places-any-time-soon?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Jan 2024 08:30:15 +0000 Public housing is the wave of the future for China’s cities. The government recently issued “Document 14”, reportedly calling on cities with a large inventory of private housing to buy and convert the unsold homes into public housing. It’s becoming clear that the Chinese government may have to take over many of the flats and houses, partially built or not built at all, that private sector actors like Evergrande and Country Garden cannot complete. When President Xi Jinping visited Shanghai last... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3246261/how-china-can-make-omelette-out-housing-eggs-it-has-broken?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3246261/how-china-can-make-omelette-out-housing-eggs-it-has-broken?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Dec 2023 11:30:11 +0000 In the wake of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to San Francisco, pundits wheeled out the usual superficial tropes used to analyse US-China relations: discussion of the politics of the island of Taiwan, even though experts doubt any present danger; negative statistics about Chinese growth; seemingly unrelated prognostications about former US president Donald Trump. Blow away the fog of war, though, and the issue at the root of US-China rivalry is dominance in scientific research. The United... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3243446/us-china-rivalry-its-science-stupid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3243446/us-china-rivalry-its-science-stupid?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:30:10 +0000 Sun Xun is a rising star on the Chinese, if not international, contemporary art scene. Represented by ShanghART, a leading gallery on the mainland, the 36-year-old also has a work on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, as part of a big group show on Chinese art. His most recent exhibition, “Prediction Laboratory”, which ended last week at Shanghai’s Yuz Museum, echoed the tradition of intellectuals and artists such as Lu Xun, Liang Sicheng, and Ma Desheng, whose gloomy reflections on... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/2063565/wreckage-chinas-industrial-northeast-artist-sun?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/2063565/wreckage-chinas-industrial-northeast-artist-sun?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Jan 2017 00:00:30 +0000