China’s imports and exports both surged in September compared with a year before, indicating a continued strong recovery for the Chinese market. Economists surveyed expect Q3 growth to top 5%, nearing 2019 levels.
Retail sales in China were up 0.5% in August from a year before, one of many indicators showing the Chinese economy returning to normal.
Legislation passed by the U.S. Senate that may bar Chinese companies from U.S. markets, part of a broader push by Republican lawmakers for economic decoupling, could have a “very significant cost in terms of hurting U.S. interests,” said economist Yukon Huang, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and formerly the World Bank's country director for China.
In our most recent Red Paper ($25 or free for Access members), we presented ten scenarios for China in 2019 — not predictions, but events that...
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The answer, as the old song goes, is “another day older, and deeper in debt.” Bloomberg reports (via SCMP): “China’s burst of local bond issuance is supposed...
Are economic storm clouds building above China? Here are some news stories from the last few days: “China could be facing a ‘debt iceberg with...
This week’s Sinica is now live. Listen to it here. Yukon Huang thinks that China’s economy is extremely unconventional. Unsurprisingly, then, that nearly all the conventional economic wisdom...
We spoke with Stephen Roach, senior lecturer at Yale’s School of Management and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, on Jan. 17 in New York...