November 2023
Opposition sounds alarm over Future Fund’s Chinese investments
An audit by the federal opposition shows that taxpayers are exposed to 50 Chinese companies with links to the military or human rights concerns.
September 2023
Chinese banks shun Beijing’s flagship property bailout fund
The failure of the PBoC initiative to resolve the problem of unfinished homes illustrates the complexity of trying to design measures to revive China’s property sector.
Chinese lenders extend billions of dollars to Russian banks
The moves by four of China’s biggest banks are part of Beijing’s efforts to promote the renminbi as an alternative global currency to the dollar.
December 2022
China’s shadow banks pivot away from property to survive
China’s shadow banking industry, worth about $4.4 trillion, or roughly the size of Britain’s economy, is scrambling for new business after the collapse of the property sector.
July 2022
Is China stumbling into its own mortgage disaster?
The Chinese authorities’ drift on managing bad property debts feels eerily like the impending subprime crisis in 2007.
China’s troubled property market has global investors on edge
Mounting signs of stress this week have roiled China’s credit markets, dragged down the nation’s bank stocks and pummeled commodities from iron ore to copper.
March 2022
Nickel spikes 90pc as supply fears trigger wild short squeeze
Growing concerns of disruptions to Russia’s high-quality nickel supply triggered a manic night on the LME, rocketing the metal’s price to a record high.
January 2022
Winter Olympics helps push China economy downhill
Exports cannot be counted on to offset weak consumption caused by a zero-COVID-19 policy. The Olympics are becoming an expensive exercise for China.
May 2021
Wall Street’s new love affair with China
At a time of growing geopolitical competition, US and European investment firms are plunging into the Chinese market.
January 2021
What will Jack Ma's Ant look like next?
The future of Ant Group remains up in the air after its dramatic fall from grace.
September 2020
Wall Street brushes off political tensions to dig deeper into China
Chinese reforms that came into force this year mean that foreign companies can for the first time fully own their own businesses in the country’s rapidly growing mutual fund sector.
November 2019
NSW has no plans to sign on to China's One Belt One Road plan
NSW has no plans to join China's One Belt One Road initiative (BRI), even as it aims to build a $1 trillion economy by 2030 largely off trade with Asia.
August 2019
Politics cannot escape China any more
A corruption inquiry, new university rules, an internet cable under the Pacific. The government can't even separate its domestic economic agenda from China, writes Philip Coorey.