The project covered much of China’s industrial base. Chart: The Economist The goals were sometimes ... into research and development by 2025, up from less than 1% in 2015 (see chart 2).

The numbers made little sense; one prominent economist has dismissed ... government deficits get in the way, pushing up borrowing costs and inflation. China, sadly, has the opposite problem.

Leith Van Onselen, chief economist at the MB ... It said production from China’s mines hit a seasonal record of 390 million tonnes in July 2024, up from 378 million in the same month a year ...

Seasoned researcher says Trump's 'extremist' protectionism will isolate US and cede the high ground on multilateralism to China Economist Zhang ... to immediately catch up to the US.

As China celebrated the Lunar New Year, shoppers and travelers said they were feeling constrained by a slowdown in the ...

“Stimulus, stimulus, stimulus, particularly on the fiscal side, is very much needed in China,” said Frederic Neumann, chief Asia economist at HSBC Holdings Plc in Hong Kong. “We’ve seen in ...

That compares with 3.4 per cent on average in the decade before the pandemic. “Stimulus, stimulus, stimulus, particularly on the fiscal side, is very much needed in China,” said Frederic Neumann, ...