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China shocks set in motion manufacturing ‘doom loop’

November 4, 2025November 3, 2025 by China Factor Staff

Factory activity is now entrenched in its longest slump in more than nine years as deflation takes hold

Categories Talking Point Tags China, Factory Activity, Falling Exports, News, Overcapacity Leave a comment

Xi flexes his muscles to turn back the clock on Trump

November 24, 2025October 31, 2025 by David Sacks

China ‘possesses powerful cards that can inflict pain on the US and its partners’

Categories Viewpoint Tags Beijing Visit, China, Council on Foreign Relations, News, The Long Read, Trade Truce, United States Leave a comment

Trump has the ‘superlatives,’ but Xi has that ‘truce’

October 31, 2025October 30, 2025 by China Factor Staff

‘It’s clear that rare earths’ are ‘the ace in the hole that China is able to wield over’ the US

Categories Talking Point Tags China, News, Nuclear Weapons Test, Trade Truce, United States Leave a comment

Beijing puts the brakes on EV race to the bottom

October 30, 2025October 29, 2025 by China Factor Staff

Cut-throat competition has sparked a ‘brutal’ battle for sales and ‘oversaturated’ markets

Categories Talking Point Tags China, Electric Vehicles, Five-Year Plan, News, US$230 Billion Funding Leave a comment

Trump flies out and China flies in with a trade deal

October 29, 2025October 28, 2025 by China Factor Staff

Beijing’s pact with ASEAN highlights the fallout from the tariff wars being waged across the world

Categories Talking Point Tags ASEAN Summit, China, News, Trade Wars, United States Leave a comment

President Xi gives China’s citizens the cold shoulder

October 28, 2025October 27, 2025 by China Factor Staff

They increasingly find themselves being sidelined when it comes to Beijing’s ‘spending priorities’

Categories Talking Point Tags 15th Five-Year-Plan, Ballooning Debt, China, News, Technologies Of The Future Leave a comment

Long and winding road to catch China’s EV juggernaut

October 27, 2025October 24, 2025 by Pietro Micheli

BYD wants to be known as a technology company with an ultra-fast charging system that races past rivals

Categories Behind The News Tags Brand Names, Electric Vehicles, News, The Conversation, United Kingdom Leave a comment

ASEAN is under the shadow of US-China trade row

October 24, 2025October 23, 2025 by Joshua Kurlantzick

Collaborating on the big economic or regional issues seems like a fantasy for Southeast Asian nations

Categories Commentary Tags ASEAN Summit, Council on Foreign Relations, News, Regional Weakness, Trade Tariffs Leave a comment

China’s labor crisis and the rise of the robots

October 23, 2025October 22, 2025 by China Factor Staff

But ‘isolation’ in the form of President Xi’s ‘self-reliance’ policy might stifle ‘innovation’ at home

Categories Talking Point Tags Automation, Cheap Labor, China, Dark Factories, News, Western Technology Leave a comment

China should forget Taiwan and sort out its ‘economy’

October 22, 2025October 21, 2025 by China Factor Staff

Taiwanese National Security Council chief Wu warns that Beijing is seeking ‘global’ supremacy

Categories Talking Point Tags China, Donald Trump, News, South China Sea Tension, Taiwan Invasion Leave a comment
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