President Xi Jinping has reiterated his view of China’s inevitable rise – a belief that continues to drive policymaking at the highest level – at a closely watched symposium with prominent entrepreneurs, held to boost private-sector morale and shore up economic momentum. He told the assembled business leaders on Monday that the East still holds…
China condemned tariffs launched or threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump at a World Trade Organization meeting on Tuesday, saying such “tariff shocks” could upend the global trading system in a warning dismissed as hypocritical by Washington.President Trump has announced sweeping 10 per cent tariffs on all Chinese imports, prompting Beijing to respond with retaliatory…
One day after a high-profile symposium hosted by President Xi Jinping and attended by China’s leading entrepreneurs, Beijing has unveiled new measures in support of the private sector – an act the president explicitly backed in his speech. Legislation to promote the private economy is also set for a second review later this month, both…
The thesis for investing in China is improving underpinned by a combination of market performance and tailwinds from DeepSeek‘s AI breakthrough to better-than-expected U.S. relations, according to analysts at Bank of America Securities. Under the sub-heading “From ‘tradable’ to ‘investable’” the investment bank’s China equity analysts noted that long-term reforms such as rising dividend payments…
BEIJING -China’s President Xi Jinping has attended a symposium on private enterprises, official news agency Xinhua said on Monday, a rare move that comes as Beijing grapples with a slowing economy and growing tensions with the United States. China’s Xi meets with private business leaders in Beijing The Xinhua report said Xi delivered a speech…
State Of China’s Economy Just how badly is China’s economy doing? More than half of China’s provinces have missed their self-set growth targets. That includes the so-called prosperous province of Hainan, says former intelligence officer and China watcher Jayadeva Ranade. At least 100 protests have been recorded across China and some of them have escalated….
As China’s DeepSeek – a relatively recent entrant in a crowded field of companies producing artificial intelligence (AI) models – threatens the dominance of the United States in the nascent but highly competitive sector, the province that nurtured the upstart company is taking steps to become a world-leading hub for frontier technologies of all types….
The Chinese government’s flurry of pro-natal policies has been credited with ending last year’s seven-year birth rate decline, but some analysts caution this will prove to be the exception rather than the rule. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry with a request for comment by email. Why It Matters Last year marked the…
With much-anticipated trade actions against China absent on the first day of US President Donald Trump’s second term, a chief Citi economist said there are better odds of “delayed, gradual tariffs” being imposed on the world’s second-largest economy in advance of potential direct negotiations between the two countries’ leaders. A slower onset of tariffs on…
China’s population contracted for the third year in a row in 2024 despite an uptick in births. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry by email with a request for comment. Why It Matters Xi Jinping‘s Chinese Communist Party government has been rolling out measure after measure in hopes of encouraging young Chinese to…