Once a beneficiary of China’s property boom, Lan Mingqiang is now an unwitting casualty of its unraveling.The financial troubles at one real estate company, Country Garden, have left him unable […]
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Back to news homeU.S. and China Agree to Broaden Talks in Bid to Ease Tensions
The United States and China agreed on Monday to hold regular conversations about commercial issues and restrictions on access to advanced technology, the latest step this summer toward reducing tensions […]
What China’s Economic Woes May Mean for the U.S.
The news about China’s economy over the past few weeks has been daunting, to put it mildly.The country’s growth has fallen from its usual brisk 8 percent annual pace to […]
A Crisis of Confidence Is Gripping China’s Economy
Earlier this year, David Yang was brimming with confidence about the prospects for his perfume factory in eastern China.After nearly three years of paralyzing Covid lockdowns, China had lifted its […]
China’s Property Crisis: Why It’s So Hard for Beijing to Fix
China’s stock market was plunging and its currency was teetering. The head of the central bank, fielding questions at a rare news conference, said that China would make it easier […]
Chinese Confidence Hits Low Point Because of Nation’s Economic Troubles
When their government abruptly ended its harsh Covid measures in December, many Chinese expected a robust rebound from pent-up demand. Eight months later, China is instead facing an accumulation of […]
China Faces a Crisis in Its Real Estate Sector
A model Chinese property developer in a sector replete with risk takers is teetering on the edge of default. Short of cash, one of China’s biggest asset managers has missed […]
How Geopolitics Is Complicating the Move to Clean Energy
He is known as the Minister for Everything. From the government offices of Indonesia’s capital to dusty mines on remote islands, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan commands authority as the nation’s essential […]
China’s Nickel Plants in Indonesia Created Needed Jobs, Plus Pollution
For most of his 57 years on the island of Sulawesi, Jamal was accustomed to scarcity, modest expectations and a grim shortage of jobs. People mined sand, caught fish and […]
Trouble in China Pushes Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Into Bear Market
Stocks in Hong Kong entered a bear market on Friday, down 21 percent from their high near the start of the year, as investors around the world grew increasingly worried […]