China is hoping to avoid an acceleration in the pace of new COVID cases during the coming Lunar New Year holiday, when Chinese people traditionally travel home to see family, Read more
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As EU works to coordinate response to China’s COVID wave, Beijing and airlines are unhappy
European Union officials were working Wednesday to coordinate a response to China’s current surge of COVID cases and were likely to agree on travel restrictions that may upset both Beijing Read more
China’s zero-COVID strategy makes no sense and its homegrown vaccines are not ‘particularly effective,’ says Fauci
Widespread protests across China over the government’s zero-COVID policy dominated pandemic headlines Monday, with Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, weighing in with the view that the strategy does Read more
China’s three-week COVID case tally tops 253,000 and daily average is rising, government says
More than 253,000 coronavirus cases have been found in China in the past three weeks and the daily average is rising, the government said Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. The Read more
China’s consumer inflation eases in October
China’s consumer inflation eased in October, while factory-gate prices fell from a year ago for the first time in nearly two years, reflecting weakening domestic demand as the economy cooled Read more
Oil ticks lower as hopes fade for China’s relaxation of COVID restrictions
Oil futures ticked lower early Monday, with weakness tied in part to fading hopes China would relax curbs aimed at curtailing the spread of COVID-19. Price action West Texas Intermediate Read more
China’s October exports miss expectations as global demand weakens
BEIJING — China’s exports unexpectedly fell in October, dragged by weakening global demand, official data showed Monday. Outbound shipments declined 0.3% in October from a year earlier, compared with 5.7% Read more
China’s factory, construction, service activity slump in fresh sign of economic weakness
China’s official gauges measuring factory, construction and service activities all tumbled into contraction territory in October, signaling fresh signs of weakness in the world’s second-largest economy. The official manufacturing purchasing Read more
Political uncertainty has been removed after China’s Party Congress, but investors are still gloomy
Financial-market investors were craving for clues on clearer economic policy guidance from the China’s Communist Party Congress, but when the ruling party wrapped up its twice-a-decade political gathering on Saturday Read more
Opinion: China’s economy is rotting from the head
BOSTON (Project Syndicate)—China highlights a long-debated question about economic development: Can a top-down autocracy outperform liberal market economies in terms of innovation and growth? Between 1980 and 2019, China’s average Read more