The ‘ceteris paribus’ assumption of long-term forecasting tends to blind analysts to inevitable shifts in the political sphere, and nowhere is this more apparent than with China projections.

Exploring the potential geoeconomic impacts of the world’s most advanced central bank digital currency (CBDC), China’s e-yuan.

Sound industrial and geopolitically-minded policy is needed to shore up US competitiveness in the face of the challenges posed by China’s economy – not tariffs.

The September economic data has not been kind to China: deflation and export stagnation, generating new calls for the authorities to implement fiscal stimulus measures before price drops become further entrenched.

China stock markets are experiencing wild swings as traders place bets on new stimulus announcements from Beijing. Yet little has changed regarding the fundamentals of the Chinese economy.

As policy, economic, and geopolitical challenges mount, foreign firms are finding it harder to make money in the China market than a decade ago.

With economic growth slowed by wealth declines and flagging labor productivity, the Chinese economy is unable to be the engine for global oil markets that it once was.

Absent a new infrastructure or construction boom at home, China’s steel industry is projected to contract as the export markets that recently sustained it close their doors.

China’s banking system is shouldering the burden of a struggling real estate market, but there’s only so much pressure it can take before the risk becomes systemic.

Beijing’s response to structural economic headwinds has been more of the same, with the oft-cited goal of consumer-driven growth as elusive as ever.

China’s state authorities are projecting confidence as they hope for a rebound, but the structural contradictions that thwarted economic growth in 2023 still loom large over the year to come.

China's restrictions on gallium and germanium exports threaten to impact the wider global semiconductor industry.

Beijing has kept the stimulus valve turned off despite a slew of negative economic signs. Has China’s long-predicted economic transition to a consumption-fueled growth model finally dawned?

Xi Jinping has made reducing dependency on Western food imports a priority but, given China’s finite amount of arable land, this is not a problem that’s easily solved.

China’s population recorded its first official decline since 1961, and the country’s economic model may never be the same.

COVID-19 is hammering China’s economic activity, but analysts are citing a potential boom in the second half of 2023.

A sharp drop in imports and exports suggests that the internal and external engines of the Chinese economy are failing.

Contrary to popular belief, the value of Africa to contemporary Chinese statecraft is overwhelmingly political rather than economic.

If the past is any guide, the hammer is about to come down on China’s Covid protestors.

Amid worsening economic indicators, Beijing has partially reversed its attempt to reign in real estate excess. But is the damage already done?