In 2024, China’s trade volume with partner countries in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) grew by 6.4 percent year-on-year, accounting for over half of China’s total trade volume for the first time. At the start of 2025, over a...
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Commerce proposed rules to ban Chinese technology from internet-connected vehicles in the U.S. The plan was unveiled by the department’s Bureau of Industry and Security after a seven-month...
China dominates the global electric vehicle (EV) industry. Last year, China accounted for approximately 60 percent of global registrations of new electric vehicles, and China’s EV stock was over 4.5 times greater than that of...
Following his trip to France earlier this week, Xi Jinping finished his European tour in Serbia and Hungary, where he received a warm, red-carpet welcome. The French leg of Xi’s tour was meant to soothe the E.U.’s souring...
In a small twist to the Chinese foreign minister’s tradition of making their first diplomatic visit of the new year to Africa, two countries from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) were added to Wang Yi’s tour: Brazil and...
A Weibo user who works as a computer programmer in Chengde, Hebei province, has reported that he was fined and had three years of income confiscated by the local public security bureau for using a virtual private network (VPN)...
Authorities in Xi’an have locked down the entire city after reporting over 100 new coronavirus cases. China has employed lockdowns, mass testing, and centralized quarantines to pursue a “zero-covid” strategy. The Xi’an...
The Australian Financial Review’s Phillip Cooley reports on discussions between Australia,...
During his first official visit to China this week, French President Emmanuel Macron sought to...
Following the United States’ deployment of an antimissile system in South Korea—which began...
At The Anthill, Laszlo Montgomery, the creator of the China History Podcast, discusses the...
While heavily-disputed and sometimes illegal Chinese extraction projects in Myanmar contribute to...
Reuters reports that China is criticizing the United States for passing a spending bill that...
China’s Ministry of Commerce is contesting recent media reports that China surpassed the U.S. as the world’s biggest trading nation in terms of volume last year. China Daily reports: Recent data from the...
Chinese state media reports foreign trade surged in January. Exports jumped 25%, and imports increased 28%. The growth was bigger than the increase seen in December, from Xinhua: “A lower comparative base last year caused...
The world’s second largest economy is shunning confrontational tactics in business dealings with the U.S. and Canada in favor of a newly adopted lobbying strategy, which is being tested by its North American partners. From Paul...
The Economist ran two separate pieces on Vietnam's and India's trade with China. Both posts suggest that Vietnam and India should export more to China. Banyan writes on China and Vietnam's growing trade relationship...
An influx of speculative capital, known as “hot money,” has for the last several years allowed China’s foreign exchange reserves to continue growing despite a shrinking trade surplus. The Wall Street...
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