In Peter Hessler’s latest piece for The New Yorker, “How Chinese Students Experience America,” he notes that “COVID, guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated the ambitions of the some three hundred...
Javier Milei was never Beijing’s preferred candidate to win Argentina’s presidential elections. The radical libertarian and self-described anarcho-capitalist campaigned on severing ties with “communist” China, referred to its...
Last week, the Zambian government announced that its creditors—a coalition of French and Chinese lenders that includes China Exim Bank—would cancel $2 billion of the country’s $17 billion external debt. The landmark debt...
Popular English-language media are never shy to point out distressing signs concerning...
From Economic Observer Online: A 150-billion-yuan tax cut formula under the Value-added Tax (VAT) Reform has been submitted to the Chinese State Council, and might come into effect on January 1 next year, tax officials told the...
From Economic Observer Online: Corporate income tax is likely to be targeted as a major source to boost China’s state coffer as its Ministry of Finance faces increasing fiscal spending pressure from natural disasters and...
From Beijing Time via China Economic Net: Latest survey by China’s central bank shows that 42.6 percent of bankers in the country believe that the macro economy is overheated, and 26.6 percent think the situation will continue. The People’s Bank of China and the National Bureau of Statistics quarterly send questionnaires to principals of all […]
From Bloomberg News (link) China should use its foreign-currency reserves, the world’s largest, to buy gold and oil as a hedge to guard against the risk of a sudden drop in the U.S. dollar, said a member of the central bank’s advisory board. China has about 1 percent of its reserves in gold, compared with […]
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