By some measures, China's economy is looking resilient, with strong exports and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.

Yet, China’s green push sits uneasily with its energy realities: coal still provides about 51% of its electricity as of ...

China's economy grew by just 2.5% to 3% in 2025, the Rhodium Group think tank estimates, roughly half the pace implied by official data, driven by a collapse in fixed-asset investment in the $19 ...

From the days of Mao Zedong, the fuel has underpinned economic growth, millions of jobs and the Communist Party’s founding myths.

Driven by a central government catalogue China’s industrial policy has produced economy-wide overcapacity, threatening both the domestic macroeconomy and global trading order.

China is gripped by an insidious problem that is eroding its economy: It is trapped in a cycle of competition so fierce that it is destroying profits, driving a brutal rat race among workers and ...

A self-sufficiency push has made China a tougher competitor to the U.S., but it comes with enormous waste.

The Chinese economic stimulus was misunderstood; it mainly provided liquidity to institutions and non-inflationary support to the economy, and the rally it caused was unwarranted. Despite deflation ...

China’s economy is in trouble. Here’s how the FT summarizes the situation, in traditional economic language. China’s underlying structural challenges range from high government debt, demographic ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's factory output and retail sales grew at their weakest pace in over a year in October, piling pressure on policymakers to revamp the $19 trillion export-driven economy as a ...

As China’s leaders brace for a potential tariff war with the US, they’re signaling a break with decades of convention. On past occasions when the world’s second-biggest economy ran into trouble, the ...

While China has long been touted as the next great economic superpower, its recent trajectory reveals a far different story. Despite the U.S. running its fiscal imbalances and maintaining high levels ...