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

China’s urban population surpassed 943m in 2024, say official statistics, an increase of 100m in just seven years. The ...

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

While the economy remained stable in the first half of 2025, internal pressures like stagnant consumption, falling property prices, and a low consumption-to-GDP ratio persist. China’s economic growth ...

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 ...

China has just crossed a threshold no other major economy has reached, turning a year of global uncertainty into a historic windfall. Its trade surplus has surged past one trillion dollars even as ...

SHENZHEN, China — China’s well-to-do once rushed to buy fabulously expensive luxury goods during the go-go years of rapid economic growth in the first two decades of this century. The boom even ...

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 ...

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