In Davos Xi Defends Free Trade, Paris Climate Accord
Xi Jinping yesterday took the stage in Davos to address the World Economic Forum, the first time a...
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LatestChina Braces for G20 Summit
The final countdown to the 2016 G20 summit has begun after months of painstaking preparation by...
China Wary of G20 Upsets: Politics, Pollution, Protests
Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province, has undergone a major facelift in the past year...
China’s Global Ambitions, Loans and Strings Attached
At The New York Times, Clifford Krauss and Keith Bradsher look at how China’s global...
Premier Li: Don’t Worry About China Slowdown
In his keynote address at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Chinese Premier Li...
Obama: Nice Infrastructure, China, Shame About the Air
In an address and Q&A session at the Business Roundtable in Washington on Wednesday, President...
Plans to Rein in Money Supply as Inequality Spreads
Keith Bradsher at The New York Times reports that the Chinese government is starting to rein in...
One City, Many Changes: A Reporter’s Return to Zigong
Marketplace’s China correspondent Rob Schmitz reunites with friends and former students he met...
U.S.-China Tensions: What Must Kerry Do?
In the latest installment of China File’s Conversations series, Elizabeth Economy, Andrew J. Nathan and Orville Schell respond to Nina Hachigian’s recommendations to new U.S. secretary of state John Kerry. In a...
Possible Stimulus of an Unknown Size
A recent slowdown in manufacturing prompts the Chinese government to consider policy action. The Economist ponders the government’s next macroeconomic move. While the government promised to inject more money, the precise...
China’s Hu Pledges More Imports to Boost World Growth
After a drop in real estate prices, decreased exports, and slowed inflation in October, Chinese President Hu Jintao is pushing for increased imports to balance the economy and encourage growth. At the APEC forum, International...
How China Should Rule The World
The Financial Times’ chief economics commentator Martin Wolf gives his views on how China should wield its growing clout on the world stage: China needs to develop its own view of how to use its influence. In doing so, it...
Gallup: China Seen as “Leading Economic Power”
New data from Gallup suggest that 52% of Americans now see China as the world’s leading economic power, compared with only 32% who say the same of the US. This echoes last month’s widely publicised findings by the...
China’s Economic Growth Slows in First Quarter
China’s gross domestic product output has grown by 6.1% in the first quarter, the worst quarterly growth rate in years. From Keith Bradsher of the New York Times: Still, 6.1 percent is substantially below the double-digit...
Is China’s Economy Strong Enough To Save the World?
Simon Elegant of TIME Magazine writes on the outlook for the world economy through China’s lens: So, depending on whom you believe, the Chinese economy is bottoming out or even beginning to grow again. But if there’s...
Rich China, Poor China Conundrum as Clout Grows
China’s obligations as an economic power and its needs as a developing country are at the center of this piece by Reuters’ Paul Eckert: Success in winning China’s help with global tasks like reviving the world...
The Global Recession in China: There’s Plenty of Blame for All
China’s economy has slowed its breakneck growth under the weight of the global recession. Now the Chinese people’s resentment seems split between the United States and their own government. Melinda Liu writes for...
China’s Economy: Rare Signs of Optimism
Michael Schuman of TIME reports on the Chinese economy in the midst of the global recession: The global economy is short on just about everything it needs for recovery these days — credit, jobs and new customers. But most of...
