Skittish spenders, unemployment, and a years-long property market crisis continue to weigh on Xi Jinping's ambitions.

Yet even when fighting was most intense, oil prices never reached the $150 a barrel many analysts had predicted at the start ...

The ruling Politburo called for “more proactive” tax and spending policies but did not endorse broad action to address weak ...

Lagging consumer spending and business investment offset the boost from strong exports thanks partly to the boom in artificial intelligence.

Some economists assumed that the buying power of China’s expanding middle class would ultimately fuel global growth. China has instead become a destabilizing force in the global economy. Chinese ...

Moody’s, one of the world’s Big 3 credit ratings agencies, this week confirmed China’s sovereign credit rating of A1, Upper-Medium Investment Grade, and revised its outlook from “Negative” to “Stable.

Strong exports of electrical and mechanical products supercharged China’s economy in the first three months of the year, with growth exceeding analysts’ expectations even as the Iran war upended ...

When the United States and Israel launched their first missile strikes against Iran on February 28, the reaction world-wide was shock. The White House had managed not to leak. The press was oblivious.

Animal spirits explain why the property market is such a drag on the country’s consumer sentiment.

A human-sized Labubu figurine is displayed before an auction in Beijing, China, June 6, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] BEIJING -- ...