President Joe Biden said that China’s economic challenges have taken a toll and make it less likely to consider an invasion of Taiwan to force its unification with the mainland.
Monthly Archives For September 2023
Taiwan Envoy Sees ‘Alarming’ Signs in China’s Economic Slowdown
China’s economy is showing clear signs of a slowdown that will have an inevitable spillover to the region, according to Taiwan’s top emissary to the US.“There are some alarming indications and we are …
Biden insists he’s not trying to ‘contain’ China as he courts Beijing’s rivals
President Joe Biden sought to downplay friction with China and insisted he is not trying to constrain the country’s rise in neighboring Vietnam.
Biden Forges Deeper Ties With Vietnam as China’s Ambition Mounts
Visiting Hanoi, the president cemented a new strategic partnership that puts the memories of the past behind them and focuses on mutual concerns over Beijing’s assertiveness in the region.
China’s cautious property giants may be rewarded
China’s developers are ready to turn a corner. Yu Liang told investors last week that the property market in the world’s second-largest economy was “oversold”. The chair of $22 billion China Vanke is …
The China Agenda for September 10 to 17 — ARM IPO and hearing on ‘China’s threat to U.S. financial stability’
This is the agenda for China’s diplomatic, political, finance, and business affairs for the week September 10–17.
MPs express anger after arrest of parliamentary researcher over alleged spying for China
Man is known to have had unescorted access to large parts of the Westminster estate
Biden calls for stability in U.S.-China relationship: “I don’t want to contain China”
President Biden said he met with China’s No. 2 at the G20 summit in India. Chinese President Xi Jinping did not attend.
What China slowdown? Three Chinese companies making big money globally
More Chinese companies are becoming global players. BYD and other Chinese electric car brands flocked to a German auto show in the last week to announce plans for the European market . Car exports remain…
Does China face a lost decade?
So is China going the way of Japan? Chinese enterprises have accumulated even more debt, relative to the size of the country’s gdp, than Japan’s did in its bubble era. China’s house prices have begun…
China must go radical to restore confidence in its economy
Setting up a special bureau to look over business owners’ shoulders misses the mark Beijing needs to stop harassing private firms, rethink its anti-corruption drive and trim the bureaucracy – nothing …
China’s EV makers pare prices further pursuing lofty sales goals, but analysts say the cuts will end soon
Amid frantic competition, makers have reduced prices again to lure buyers, but the cuts could be the last for a while as sales are already strong and margins are thin, according to analysts.
Female traveler caught trying to smuggle 20 living animals including 15 snakes by customs in Shenzhen in South China’s Guangdong
A female traveler who tried to smuggle 20 living animals including 15 snakes, four centipedes and a lizard by concealing them on her body was stopped by the Huanggang Customs in Shenzhen, South …
