China’s per-capita property income grew at its lowest rate for over a decade in 2024, trimming disposable incomes and limiting consumption.
Monthly Archives For February 2025
China’s Xi meets with business leaders, including Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, to boost economy
China’s President Xi Jinping met with private sector business leaders on Monday, state media reported, as government officials work to revive an economy disrupted by a pandemic, regulatory crackdowns …
China’s retaliation to Trump tariffs will reshape coking coal flows, prices
China’s retaliatory tariffs against U.S. energy imports is likely to be most keenly felt in the seaborne market for metallurgical coal.
China’s Leader Embraces Business, Even Jack Ma. But Will It Be Enough?
The once-sidelined Alibaba founder was among the executives who met with China’s top leader, in what was seen as a show of support for private enterprise by Beijing.
China’s DeepSeek AI Hit With New Setback
Bans on the chatbot in South Korea have curbed DeepSeek’s growth in one of the world’s most important markets.
China’s tech rally rests on ‘hot money’
China’s apparent breakthrough in AI and rapprochement with tech giants has sent Hong Kong stocks and internet giants soaring, but the buyers behind it are flighty and brokers say global investors are wary of big…
China anger as US amends wording on Taiwan independence
But many Taiwanese consider themselves to be part of a separate nation, although most are in favour of maintaining the status quo where Taiwan neither declares independence from C
State Department edit of text on Taiwan is ‘serious regression,’ China says
The State Department told local media the revision was a routine update, not a policy change. But it provoked anger from Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its territory.
US Ally Responds to China’s Threat
In January, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. demanded that China stop its aggression in the South China Sea, where they have territorial disputes, in exchange for the removal of Typhon. The weapon can fire two…
China lauds EU ties as Trump’s peace plan with Russia chills continent
China’s foreign ministry said on Monday that “healthy and stable” China-EU relations are needed now more than ever, after a push by the United States to initiate Ukraine peace talks with Russia without Europe threatened…
In China, a factory worker-poet dreams of a better life — with papers
Some 300 million migrant workers in China live as second-class citizens without proper documents. This worker-poet is trying to get new “hukou” and live the Chinese Dream.
Hong Kong Crypto Unicorn Hashkey Secures $30 Million From Early PDD Investor Gaorong
Beijing-based Gaorong Ventures’ investment values the crypto exchange operator at nearly $1.5 billion post-money.
Crypto Gamblers, Tech Oligarchs, Wall Street Opportunists. What Could Go Wrong?
There are still traditional economic-security technocrats in the new Trump administration, but they are just one faction, vying with others — crypto fans, Wall Street boosters and America Firsters.
