Data disappearing act hides China’s economic plight
Beijing manages ‘optics instead of fundamentals’ as it dumps home sales stats amid official crackdown
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China takes a wrecking ball to destroy trade rivals
Beijing’s export flood makes it impossible to do business with the world’s second-largest economy
Bubble trouble is brewing in China’s robot land
Industrial hype hits an economy mired in a manufacturing slump, rising unemployment, and anemic growth
Thailand’s green drive reflects China-US trade frictions
Manufacturing strategy is no longer just an environmental initiative – ‘it is an economic survival plan’
Europe is wide open to China’s economic blackmail
The EU will need to find new sources of rare earths to break Beijing’s monopoly on critical minerals
Chips are down in the war with China for AI supremacy
Google’s move against American rival Nvidia illustrates the intense competition in the United States
Xi’s call to Trump shows Japan has ‘rattled’ China
Beijing’s row with Tokyo over the Taiwan question has left it walking on a threadbare ‘red line’
China takes a blowtorch to Japan’s missile plan
As the ‘Wolf Warriors’ howl, the geriatric leadership of the Communist Party needs to cool their jets
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
Beijing’s Tokyo tirade and the dangers of the past
Tense relations between China and Japan seem to be rapidly spiraling out of control