The economic model that took the country from poverty to great-power status seems broken, and everywhere are signs of distress.

By turning away from free enterprise, Xi Jinping ensures that the country’s economy will stop growing.

Leftist president lends his voice to Beijing’s efforts to boost renminbi’s role in global commerce

Officials concerned that measures taken against Moscow could also be applied to Beijing

Income needs to accrue to those who will spend it — but this will require redistribution on a significant scale

An energy crisis caused by Russia, slowing Chinese growth, supply-chain blockages and an aging workforce are ending the decadeslong reign of Germany’s export-focused manufacturing.

After tens of billions of dollars in loans have gone sour and many infrastructure development projects have stalled, Beijing is revamping its troubled initiative.

With the US and China at loggerheads, a range of ‘middle powers’ see an opening to pursue their interests

Researchers say bullet trains could mean lower economic activity in some western parts of the country.

Struggles by China Evergrande Group and now Country Garden have underlined the problems faced by China’s property sector, leaving investors, homebuyers and economists to ponder what will be next.

The consensus that Beijing can achieve whatever target it sets ignores the pace of slowdown in recent years 

China’s shift toward high-value add manufacturing threatens to further raise trade tensions with the US, Europe and others.

Finance giant’s missed payments to investors fuel concerns of spillover effect from property slowdown

Markets need to recognise that the country is not reverting to its old economic and financial playbook

The US dollar still dominates debt markets, but some niche-sounding data suggests things could be set to shift

The monetary order is already being challenged by de-dollarisation efforts and central bank digital currencies

Rich citizens fearing high taxes and personal safety move capital out of country and arrange residences overseas

J. Bradford DeLong pours cold water on a recent Economist essay that reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of US history.

After more than a decade of bailouts and painful austerity measures, the country has rebounded

China is facing some economic challenges that Japan didn’t after its 1980s bubble.

Ideology is driving Beijing’s economic policy to a degree not seen since the opening to the West nearly half a century ago.

Vast gap highlights the dire state of Sam Bankman-Fried’s exchange before it collapsed into bankruptcy

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Russia and China are showing weakness, not strength.

As Japanese economy rises from slump, China’s woes look familiar

Cathie Wood built a thriving brand out of price-prediction porn — then the tech bubble popped.

The Belt and Road Initiative has seen a surge in loans going bad, prompting Beijing to issue countries with emergency credit

China is moving to deepen trade and investment links with nations the US has prioritized for friend-shoring, a response that may keep—or even enhance—Beijing’s primacy in global commerce.

With the current geopolitical challenges between China and the United States, as well as the ongoing supply chain issues affecting manufacturers and

A scramble for workers might complicate the Federal Reserve’s efforts to cool the economy 

Record spending on manufacturing construction heralds a made-in-the-U.S. rebound, stoked by green-energy incentives and concerns about foreign supply chains.

Beijing should prepare for a long and difficult economic transformation

Beijing’s ambitions could spur acceptance of renminbi as main rival to US currency

The legal fallout from a scheme to sell housing loans in Swiss francs threatens to push banks under — and rattle a fragile economy

Dollar hegemony is beneficial for the US, its government and most of its citizens — and is likely to last for the foreseeable future.

Beijing’s struggles could be an opportunity for Washington.

China is being called on to do more than release a few policy documents to restore investor confidence amid rising competition with the US, but such a tactic requires Beijing to bolster the economy...

Policymakers expected to target mortgage-linked loan prime rate to support sentiment

To break the vicious protectionist cycle, we need new rules of the game

For decades, monetary policy has been treated as technical, not political. The pandemic has ended that illusion forever.

As political paralysis grips Berlin, the energy crisis was the final blow for a growing number of manufacturers

Many warning signs suggesting that a debt reckoning is imminent

The invasion of Ukraine supercharged the decline of the country’s already struggling tech sector—and undercut its biggest success story, Yandex.

Leadership wary of enacting stimulus that adds to government debt or risks financial instability

New research suggests that Beijing’s property market is as bubbly as Tokyo’s two decades ago

Perhaps not—if Beijing plays its cards right. But serious damage to the nation’s prospects is still likely. A look at the problem in five charts.

A tectonic shift toward industrial stocks is underway in the world’s most-populous nation, which has long been seen by equity investors as a lucrative bet on consumption.

Send in the cranks — but also some people I expected to know better.

Deepening deficits now make the US one of the most fiscally irresponsible nations

Any hope that postpandemic reopening would lead to a return to rapid economic growth has foundered.

China’s long-brewing crisis.

It's the country's biggest engine of growth an employment, financial asset, and source of government revenue.

Companies seeking alternatives to China are finding the country’s vast interior still holds big advantages.

Economists knew back in the 1950s that a country can't build its way to infinite wealth.

China remains embedded in US supply chains even as American firms have taken steps to reduce direct imports from the Asian country, according to a paper presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of...

Freeze comes as new Argentine President Javier Milei, who campaigned on breaking ties with China, faces financial challenges.

Manufacturer Jacob Rothman says he faces calls to make goods elsewhere because of supply-chain meltdowns, trade tensions and Covid-19 lockdowns.

Beijing’s tried-and-tested industrial policy has a track record of creating fierce export juggernauts

Ryutaro Komiya, who died last year, was a leading figure in the field whose insights on Chinese economic reforms in the 1980s and ’90s still deserve attention, writes his longtime colleague Wu...

Washington’s allies in Europe and Asia were initially outraged by its new industrial policy. Now they are scrambling for ways to catch up

With China increasingly isolated and the US and its allies seeking a developing-market champion, India is having a moment. But is it ready?

Scholz government at an impasse over reforming popular debt brake after November court decision

Politicians seem to be forgetting what made the U.S. economy great.

Evergrande’s 11th-hour cancellation of a $19 billion debt restructuring could lead to a messy collapse and have “a catastrophic effect” on other troubled companies in the sector, its bond investors...

Region urgently needs pragmatic governments that create shared prosperity

Why reshoring—bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.—is so hard.