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The Chinese stock market has rallied recently in anticipation of another round of government stimulus. This is understandable, as the authorities have rolled out multiple monetary and fiscal stimulus...

NEW YORK: On June 12, the European Union announced new provisional levies on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), with the tariff level to be based on estimates of how much state support an EV exporter...

Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s nearly week-long visit to China, now underway, will most likely focus on US concerns about...

After years of speculation and false starts, it seems that the internationalisation of the renminbi is well underway. On March 29, China and Brazil announced plans to trade using their own currencies,...

China's recent decision to abandon its strict zero-Covid policy has led many to believe that its economy will bounce back. The Economist Intelligence Unit, for example, has revised its forecast for...

The world is facing the risk that major central banks will undertake competitive interest-rate hikes that may look desirable for their countries individually but could drag the world economy into an...

In early March, Premier Li Keqiang announced that China is targeting GDP growth of “about 5.5%” this year.That would be ambitious even without Russia’s war against Ukraine and the attendant...

The 20th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization on December 11 has once again highlighted long-standing debates about how well China has lived up to its WTO obligations,...