Inside China
‘Trump hates China more’: Mexicans bet that Trump is bluffing on tariffs
As Donald Trump vows an expanded trade war, Mexican businesses are continuing with factory expansions. They assume Mexico remains central to America’s goal to be less dependent on China.
- by Peter S. Goodman
Latest
How Shen Yun tapped religious fervour to make a fortune
The dance group has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to work free and pay its bills.
- by Michael Rothfeld and Nicole Hong
Chinese companies have sidestepped Trump’s tariffs. They could do it again.
China’s exporters have found plenty of new channels to the US market — demonstrating the potential limits of the tariffs Donald Trump has promised to impose.
- by Ana Swanson
Opinion
Global economy
How has the 21st century gone so wrong?
How did we get here, and what are the chances that the next 25 years will be better than the last?
- by Adrian Wooldridge
Opinion
Global economy
The world’s most important bromance needs to be rekindled
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump can’t let relations between China and the US deteriorate any further.
- by Karishma Vaswani
Opinion
Opinion
China is already in deep trouble. Trump will make things worse
China is considering a range of ideas to fix its economic mess. It may have to take more radical and painful measures if Donald Trump starts a new trade war.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Electric vehicles
China is leaving Europe’s and America’s carmakers in the dust in the EV race
China’s 21st-century auto technology is causing turmoil for the big established US, Japanese and European carmakers.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Trade wars
China is on a collision course with Trump. It just fired a warning shot
China has not wasted any time responding to the latest US attempt to restrain its development of a crucial industry. It was an unusual move and perhaps a sign of things to come.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Ready for ‘warfare’: China loads its weapon to fight back against Trump
Donald Trump has made it clear he believes a confrontation between the US and China over trade and technology is inevitable. Beijing has had time to get ready.
- by Alexandra Stevenson and Paul Mozur
Despite all the tea in China, in Shanghai, the coffee is hot
On the streets of China’s financial and cosmopolitan hub, a caffeine-fuelled revolution is taking place.
- by Lisa Visentin
China’s richest are selling their trophy homes at bargain prices
One by one, tycoons who built their wealth on China’s economic rise have been giving up their trophy homes in Hong Kong.
- by Alexandra Stevenson
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