Investment in manufacturing, infrastructure and property is expected to fall this year, a remarkable turn for an economy ...

A worker welding metal at a factory in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province. As the global economy stumbles into the fourth quarter, China is increasingly feeling the strain of trade tensions ...

In recent weeks, Western audiences encountered two starkly different portraits of China’s economic model. In his book “Breakneck,” tech analyst Dan Wang argues that China is an “engineering state” ...

China’s economy is struggling, with a spate of data out this week for July showing weaker-than-anticipated activity in retail sales and factory output. But in a world where bad news is good news, ...

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 ...

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 ...

We asked people in 25 nations whether they think the U.S., China, Japan or the European Union is the world’s leading economic power. We also asked with which country – the U.S. or China – they see as ...

China’s economy has defied President Donald Trump’s tariff pressure and is outpacing Beijing’s growth target, expanding by 5.3 percent in the first half of 2025, according to government statistics, ...

China’s economy is at a transformational moment. For more than two decades, a growth model centered on the debt-fueled construction of housing and infrastructure propelled the country’s rapid ...