Goldman Sachs has cut China’s economic growth forecast for 2021 to 7.8per cent, from 8.2per cent, as energy shortages and deep industrial output cuts add “significant downside pressures”, it said in a …
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By Jill Disis, CNN Business A growing power supply crunch in China is triggering blackouts for households and forcing factories to cut production, threatening to slow the country’s vast economy and …
Guangdong, Shenzhen to Issue Offshore Yuan Bonds in HK, Macau
The local governments of Guangdong province and the city of Shenzhen will become the first ones in the Chinese mainland to issue offshore yuan-denominated bonds in Hong Kong and Macau next month.
China Tells NATO to Stay Out of Asia
At a meeting on Monday between NATO head Jens Stoltenberg and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, both officials stressed that neither was considered a rival.
Under Olaf Scholz, Germany May Have to Choose Between the U.S. and China
A Germany under Olaf Scholz, the man most likely to succeed Angela Merkel as the country’s chancellor, might have to choose between supporting China or the United States as tension rise between the …
China’s power shortages threaten more supply chain chaos and may hit GDP
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One of the largest Chinese defense companies has been pointed out for providing the Venezuelan government software to block access to the Internet and to spy on its detractors.
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