Platform power and state surveillance in China
‘Super-app’ WeChat is now a crucial policing tool – its security role will only deepen in the future
China
President Xi is gambling on high-tech dominance
‘Underpowered consumer spending and mounting economic risks’ take a backseat in China’s economic plan
China targets trillions of dollars in ‘hidden debt’
Budget czar Li to comb local government books amid borrowing binge and property collapse
China shocks set in motion manufacturing ‘doom loop’
Factory activity is now entrenched in its longest slump in more than nine years as deflation takes hold
Xi flexes his muscles to turn back the clock on Trump
China ‘possesses powerful cards that can inflict pain on the US and its partners’
Trump has the ‘superlatives,’ but Xi has that ‘truce’
‘It’s clear that rare earths’ are ‘the ace in the hole that China is able to wield over’ the US
Beijing puts the brakes on EV race to the bottom
Cut-throat competition has sparked a ‘brutal’ battle for sales and ‘oversaturated’ markets
Trump flies out and China flies in with a trade deal
Beijing’s pact with ASEAN highlights the fallout from the tariff wars being waged across the world
President Xi gives China’s citizens the cold shoulder
They increasingly find themselves being sidelined when it comes to Beijing’s ‘spending priorities’
China’s labor crisis and the rise of the robots
But ‘isolation’ in the form of President Xi’s ‘self-reliance’ policy might stifle ‘innovation’ at home