The magnitude-7.4 quake was the island’s strongest in 25 years, but preparation—and some luck—made it far less deadly than the last big one.

Maintaining Hong Kong’s position as a global financial powerhouse requires urgent action not only on resolving the political stalemate but also on deep, festering problems with the city’s economic...

The U.S. can, perhaps, stay ahead—but only if Americans, and their government, are willing to pay up to remain the world’s technology leader.

Chinese professionals and entrepreneurs are streaming to other countries. America should be encouraging them to come here. But we’ve mostly done the opposite.

China is facing growing hostility abroad. To offset that, the country will need the kind of tough reforms the West and its allies have long asked for—or make a major political course correction to...

Another big Chinese province has admitted to falsifying economic data. That doesn’t mean all Chinese economic data is useless. It does mean investors need to educate themselves on where to look, or...

Washington and Beijing are on a collision course, and both sides need to take a deep breath.

Markets in the U.S. are going haywire—with the GameStop saga the latest symptom—but the central bank is hesitant to step in. Not so in China.

Property developer China Evergrande has managed to defy warnings of disaster for years, but its latest round of troubles looks harder to finesse.

Chinese banks need to lend more to private enterprises. Too bad that won’t help their credit profiles.

The immediate impact of China’s new national-security legislation on the territory’s financial future will depend on the U.S. response.

Russia’s economic isolation is a boon for China in some ways but sends a strong signal on the West’s willingness and ability to employ brutal financial sanctions when roused.

Securing U.S. growth and economic security requires a realistic appraisal of both China’s and the U.S.’s strengths and vulnerabilities.

Hitting the bottle too much during the coronavirus lockdown could be a problem. Investors in Kweichow Moutai, however, are glowing with health.

China is where the West hopes to be in a few weeks. But the lingering damage—and ever-present fears of a new outbreak—suggest the recovery in both places will be tough.

Headlines on record bond defaults have been spooking foreign investors, but a more worrying test for the bond market still lies ahead.

Anger over China’s Covid policies comes amid structural economic changes that have damaged young people’s prospects and boosted factory workers’ leverage.

Like birds, microprocessors often take a circuitous route to arrive at their destination. Controlling where they fly to is proving difficult.

It was brought in following increasing unrest and a widening pro-democracy movement.

If the U.S. chooses to, it could seriously damage China in the financial realm—and China has little capacity to retaliate. Using such powerful tools carries risks, however.

Biggest risk to China is from Evergrande’s small creditors, not its large ones.

Official Chinese statistics suggest small-business lending—a crucial ingredient for growth—is booming. The truth is less rosy, but not as dire as it was.

China is right that industrial capacity cuts are helping steel and coal firms to reduce debt and banking-sector risks. Investors are wrong to conclude the battle is won.

Whether the infectious disease spreads to other countries that make hard-to-replace products may be the acid test of its impact on global manufacturing this year.

Some of the trade war’s aims were accomplished, but many weren’t.

Higher oil prices are no longer an unalloyed negative for the U.S., but they are for the world’s largest crude importer: China.

With U.S.-China trade deal goals increasingly out of reach, another round of trade conflict looks near. But things could play out quite differently this time.

Oil markets joined the U.S. equity rout Tuesday, yet demand still looks robust.

A significant conflict between the U.S. and China in East Asia is still unlikely but it can no longer be ruled out as an implausible tail risk. Companies need to start considering what that could...

In the 1990s and early 2000s, China was very corrupt but also fast-growing. These days, the country is less corrupt by most measures but also slower growing. That may not be just a coincidence.

The Chinese game giant got a huge boost from the epidemic in China last quarter, but advertising and gaming revenue growth could slow from here.

Big losses on an oil-backed Chinese investment product once again show how financial complexity, moral hazard and yield-starved Chinese retail investors make for a volatile mix.

The China-India clash fits into a broader picture of the regional tussles that undermine Beijing’s ambitions to take a central role in commercial diplomacy in Asia, leaving that leadership to Japan.

A defeat at the hands of one of India’s wealthiest men—who employed some bare-knuckle business techniques—shows Amazon has a tough road ahead in the crucial growth market.

Preliminary evidence suggests that extra U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods are a cost to both countries while rewarding the likes of South Korea and Taiwan

Cyclical headwinds could limit gains in 2023, but longer-term demand, driven by green power, looks likely to far outstrip supply growth.

Even with both sides trying to re-engage, Sino-U.S. relations keep getting more tense–an extraordinarily worrying trend for investors and everyone else.