Surveys show that more than 40% of flexible workers — including delivery drivers, livestreamers and freelancers — are opting out of the pension system …
Monthly Archives For April 2025
‘For our country’: China’s patriots are buying the dip
Cao Mingjie had never traded stocks before Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day”. The home designer from China’s southern Guangdong province changed his mind after April 2, when the U.S. president announced …
China warns countries against striking trade deals with US at its expense
Ukraine imposed sanctions on three Chinese companies on Friday claiming they were involved in production of advanced Iskander missiles, a day after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy alleged that China had …
Chinese scholars take on Trump adviser pushing tariff war as prelude to financial revamp
Stance of Council of Economic Advisers chairman Stephen Miran likened to ‘collecting protection money on the streets’.
China’s Nio delays Europe launch of Firefly EV to third quarter
China’s Nio said on Tuesday it would launch its Firefly electric vehicle in Europe in the third quarter, later than initially forecast, after it underestimated challenges involved in sales and service …
China’s Q1 automobile exports up 16% y/y, industry official says
China’s automobile exports reached 1.54 million units in the first quarter of the year, up 16% compared with the same period a year earlier, an industry official said.
Trade war with China threatens U.S. economy
The tariff war between the U.S. and China intensified this week as both sides dug in amid rising fears of a global recession. The Trump administration’s levies on Chinese imports hit a staggering 145 …
China executes man over fatal 2024 stabbing of Japanese boy in Shenzhen
China has executed a man over the fatal stabbing of a Japanese schoolboy in Shenzhen, southern China, in September last year, it was learned Monday.
China Mobile seeks new ventures
ISLAMABAD: A high-level delegation from China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC), led by Chairman Yang Jie, visited the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunicat …
Japanese schoolboy killer in China executed: source
A Chinese man convicted of fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy in Shenzhen, southern China, in September has …
How ‘China shock 2.0’ will roil global markets
But rather than usher in political reforms, China’s rise to a global trading behemoth solidified the Chinese Communist Party’s power. In the U.S., meanwhile, there were winners and losers. Consumer …
Airplanes land in the middle of the U.S.-China tariff standoff
Chinese airlines have reportedly been told to stop taking delivery of Boeing jets, and at least two new jets have left the country. It’s one way U.S trade policy could hit airplane makers, which had…
China Told by EU Business Body to Overhaul Its Industrial Policy
China needs to revise its industrial policies if it wants to avoid further backlash and build economic ties internationally as Donald Trump’s tariffs upend the global trade system, according to a European business group.
