China Economic ReviewAt the heart of China’s economy, as it has been said many times, is the property market. And so, keeping an eye on this market, which has been on a slide now for several years, is important. People are always looking for some signs of the bottom of the market being reached, but there’s basically […]
Only last month, the leaders of China and the US had an apparently friendly few days together in Beijing. Lots of smiles and words of hope. But the reality is very different, and this week saw a couple of developments that emphasize just how difficult the relationship is becoming, with consequences that bear a lot […]
Mr Xi has held many meetings with leaders of other countries in the past couple of years but almost always in Beijing. He doesn’t travel outside China much, but next week he will make a visit to Pyongyang to see comrade Kim Jong-un—which provides an opportunity to mull China’s position and relations with not only […]
The EU’s relationship with China over the past 40 years or so has been largely an effort in pretence. The consequence of China’s concerted and coordinated efforts to suck up all relevant technologies and to—as much as possible—supplant the previous engineering kings of the world, while using WTO to expand as much as possible exports […]
China’s National Bureau of Statistics has come out with the GDP growth rate for Q1 and pegged it at 5%. This is a number that deserves some thought. First of all, the annual growth rate approved at the NPC last month was a range between 4.5 to 5%, which gave a sense of flexibility in […]