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Verso
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.
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Stratfor
The yuan has become the first SDR basket currency to belong to a country that is not a clear U.S. ally. This is important because it is part of a wider trend, reflecting increased economic power in new parts of the world. The important question now is how the United States, as architect and leader of the existing system, will cope with these new challenges.
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Huffpost
BEIJING -- China's future development is about economic transformation. Through green growth and the application of Internet technologies, China can spur...
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Stratfor
In his first term, President Xi Jinping couldn't overcome the social, economic and political challenges that he inherited on taking office. But maybe the second term's the charm.
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Stratfor
Beijing is seeking to overhaul its regulatory system, tackle mounting debt risks and crack down on corruption. Liberalization will have to wait.
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Nature
The country’s ambition to become the global leader in artificial intelligence will require a large, highly skilled workforce. The country’s ambition to become the global leader in artificial intelligence will require a large, highly skilled workforce.
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Next Big Future
Next wave in China will be broad adoption of digitalization by businesses
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Bloomberg
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Stratfor
China has issued a blueprint for reforms to its financial system, but there are still obstacles to foreign investment.
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Stratfor
China's growing commercial presence in the region pales when compared with foreign direct investment from the United States and Europe.
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Technology Review
Artificial intelligence may have been invented in the West, but China seems determined to own its future. Its rising AI community just got a tremendous shot in the arm, in the form of a massive new government investment plan. The State Council of the People’s Republic of China has announced a bold scheme (link in…
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The UNZ Review
Pretty much everything our media tells us about China is wrong–or at least one-sided–including its tales of a China ‘debt problem’. The Chinese are, in all times and places, debt-averse and China’s government which, unlike ours, must take long-term responsibility for the economy, is no different. Mao set the example and grew GDP by 6.2 percent annually for twenty-five years without incur
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Fortune
What happens when China's e-commerce giants, like Alibaba, go offline?
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Next Big Future
Read more about India may achieve 300 MT steel output ahead of 2030-31: Steel Secy on Business Standard. The government on Tuesday expressed confidence that India would achieve 300 million tonnes (MT) of steel production target ahead of the year 2030-31."It (National Steel Policy) is a very landmark policy which was brought in the year 2017. It
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Quartz
The Chinese dream is very much like the American dream—plus 10%, says an expert in Chinese consumerism.
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SKAGEN Fondene
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Mauldin Economics
Get live updates from 2017’s most exclusive investment conference here: http://www.mauldineconomics.com/go/v34khz/MEC
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NY Times
In stark contrast to President Trump’s “America First” mantra, the “One Belt, One Road” plan aims to remake global commerce in China’s image.
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Next Big Future
China will invest trillions in megacity investments over the next 15 years
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Quartz
China has strategic Indian Ocean real estate (for 100 years or so) thanks to Sri Lanka over-borrowing for Chinese-led infrastructure projects—many of them useless.
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Stratfor
Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative has earned comparisons to the Marshall Plan for its ambitious, multinational scope. But the program is as much about developing the country's interior as it is forging ties beyond its borders.
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Project Syndicate
Through its $1 trillion “one belt, one road” initiative, China is supporting infrastructure projects in strategically located developing countries, often by extending huge loans to their governments. As a result, some of these countries are becoming saddled with debt, leaving them even more firmly under China's thumb.

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Washington Post
What really sparked the world’s incredible revolution in wealth.
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Stratfor
The impending transformation to the Chinese economy could carry as many risks as it does rewards.
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Future Economics
The 2000’s was a decade of rapid economic change. The Chinese economy grew enormously, and to a lesser extent so did the economies of Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, South Korea, India, and others. Mobile phones, smartphones, and the Internet changed the way billions of people live their lives and conduct business. Near the end…
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Stratfor
The Chinese Cabinet has released a long-awaited plan to more evenly distribute tax revenue and public expenditures among the central and local governments.
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Scientific American
Reading between the (transmission) lines on Beijing’s global infrastructure projects
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Stratfor
On its own, the country consumes more than half of the world's cement, copper, nickel and steel.
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Brookings
Despite China’s central role in global oil markets, the RMB is unlikely to challenge the dollar as the default currency for oil trade anytime soon. A number of obstacles stand in its way, including Chinese capital controls and the foreign exchange risk that producers may be unwilling to take.
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ABC News
Policy documents don't usually attract this much attention, but China's hi-tech manufacturing plan could have a dramatic effect on global trade.
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NBER
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Bloomberg
The Communist Party has become a victim of its own policy success.
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SupChina
At the heart of the U.S.-China trade war is an ambitious Chinese plan to replace foreign technology with the country’s own. Here’s what you need to know about Made in China 2025.
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New York Times
The modernization push will proceed even if the White House finds a way to hinder the Beijing-led effort to propel its businesses into the next century.
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Stratfor
China is bullish about ensuring control over the entire supply chain for lithium-ion batteries for years to come.
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Stratfor
Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are looking to gain an advantage over one another on the internet in China as they also challenge U.S. companies globally.
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stratfor
Australia has a moral duty to engage with the global challenge of providing quality education to hundreds of millions of Indian youth over the next 20 years.
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South China Morning Post
How China was caught off guard by US President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade action. Is Beijing is to blame for the conflict?
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Stratfor
A last-minute bond repayment by a local government financing vehicle raises questions about how China will continue to handle its snowballing debt.
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Bloomberg
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Project Syndicate
The threat of a trade war may not be good news for China, but it will not bring down the economy. The real challenge China faces is how to take advantage of dynamic urban clusters to generate growth and address structural challenges in financially and environmentally sustainable ways.
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South China Morning Post
In the second report in a series, He Huifeng and Celia Chen look at how Beijing's ambitious industrial plan aims to break China’s reliance on foreign technology and pull its hi-tech industries up to Western levels
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Stratfor
Facing pressure to open up its auto market to foreign competition -- as automakers in Asia, Europe and North America look for new export destinations under the threat of higher U.S. import fees -- Beijing is working to reduce overcapacity and strengthen local brands.
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South China Morning Post
The fourth instalment of a series on China’s hi-tech industry development master plan looks at artificial intelligence (AI) and its promise to lift the country’s industries up the value chain
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VisualPolitik EN
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Hidden Forces
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The National
Worry about the sustainability of China’s debt and the increased financial threat is justified, say analysts
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Reuters
China's economic growth cooled to its weakest quarterly pace since the global financial crisis, with regulators moving quickly to calm nervous investors as a years-long campaign to tackle debt risks and the trade war with the United States began to bite.
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Reddit
310 votes, 48 comments. 285k members in the geopolitics community. Geopolitics is focused on the relationship between politics and territory …
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Business Insider
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Foreign Policy
China pays for raw materials in greenbacks, but Trump’s trade war could soon dwindle its dollar reserves.
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CSIS
Join the Freeman Chair in China Studies on October 3rd for a special presentation of the newly released report by Freeman Chair in China Studies Senior Associate Daniel Rosen and Adjunct Fellow Logan Wright, Credit and Credibility: Risks to China's Economic Resilience. Following an introduction by Deputy Director of the Freeman Chair in China Studies Scott Kennedy, the authors
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The Guardian
Analysts say a Chinese recession would only hurt the region. That may be wishful thinking
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Stratfor
Beijing is plotting a number of strategies to manage U.S. pressure in the coming year.
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PolyMatter
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Reuters
China is taking its first steps towards paying for imported crude oil in yuan instead of the U.S. dollar, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, a key development in Beijing's efforts to establish its currency internationally.
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Big Think
China is poised to overtake the U.S. as the world's top economy for good as early as next year, according to a recent report from Standard Chartered Bank. The researchers formed their predictions by measuring purchasing power parity at GDP, which is an approach that not all economists would use in these kinds of projections.
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Stratfor
After decades of strong economic growth, the limits of the country's decades-old economic model and a trade war with the United States are contributing to a slowdown.
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Stratfor
To understand how China got where it is today, we look back to when the country first opened its economy to the world over 40 years ago.
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Stratfor
While China and Russia are not formal allies, the deepening of military relations between the two countries is real.
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Stratfor
Companies began shifting their investments and operations from China to the nearby, lower-cost region years ago. The U.S.-China trade war is speeding up the trend.
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IntelligenceSquared Debates
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Stratfor
Mindful of the country's slowing economy, Beijing is slashing taxes to generate growth. Whether the move succeeds is another question.
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South China Morning Post
The study tracked the intensity of night lights in more than 3,300 cities and towns between 2013 and 2016, but urban planners are still being told to keep building.
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VisualPolitik EN
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Stratfor
As the Chinese economy loses steam, its leaders will prioritize heading off the instability that widespread unemployment could bring.
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Mckinsey
As technology, capital, and flows of trade between China and the world have shifted, China's exposure to other countries has declined, while the world's exposure to China has increased.
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Fitch rating
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NY Times
Faced with severe factory overcapacity at home and tariffs on exports to the U.S., Beijing wants to finish a much-delayed Asian free-trade pact.
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Bridgewater Associates
Over the last 40 years, China’s rapid economic expansion has altered the world’s geopolitical and economic landscape. Bridgewater’s Founder, Co-CIO and co-Ch...
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Cassandra Capital
Recently China allowed their currency to fall below the key level of 7 yuan per dollar. But what does that mean for a currency’s value to ch
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Technology Review
Officials from the People’s Bank of China have hinted in recent weeks that the nation is almost ready to launch a digital version of its currency, the renminbi, to replace physical cash for consumer payments. There are a number of unanswered questions about how it will work, ranging from whether it will use a blockchain…
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Reuters
China announced a firm timetable for opening its futures, brokerage and mutual fund sectors fully to foreign investors next year, the latest step to deregulate the country's giant financial industry.
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The Wall Street Journal
China is snapping up stakes in private companies at a record rate, as the trade war, economic slowdown and credit squeeze heap pressure on entrepreneurs.
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Deloitte
China's reforms have opened a $30.2-trillion opportunity for foreign investment managers. To win in this complex market, foreign firms should develop segment-specific strategies, alternative data capabilities, and partner with online wealth platforms.
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The Economist
But officials and some investors see it as a sign of a healthier market
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Deloitte
What's happening this week in economics?
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VisualPolitik EN
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Technology Review
China is planning a real-world pilot of its digital currency, the first phase of which could begin before the end of this year, according to a report from an influential Chinese financial news publication. That would support recent speculation that China is on the verge of becoming the first major economy to issue sovereign digital…
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Economist
As the economy slows, some officials are becoming lukewarm about the policy
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Council On Foreign Relation
Last week I took part in a debate at CSIS on the topic of whether China seeks to export its development model. For me, the answer to this question i…
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Stratfor
With much still unknown about how the coronavirus outbreak will play out, fears are mounting that it could sap Chinese growth -- affecting trade and supply chains regionally and globally.
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National Interest
Why does China overvalue its GDP?
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Foreign Affairs
China’s vast rural underclass is dragging down growth.
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The Economist
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SupChina
While the full economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak on China’s economy is still uncertain, popular business writer Wu Xiaobo detailed in a recent report that about 247,000 Chinese companies declared bankruptcy in the first two months of 2020.
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Stratfor
China’s economy contracted by 6.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020, marking the country’s first quarterly GDP decline since 1992, CNBC reported April 17.
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MIT Technology Review
Ask Zhu Kaiyu about his factory, and he can rattle off a series of statistics meant to impress: 15,000 square meters, 800 employees, 300 machines, 5 million articles of clothing sold per year. Zhu opened his factory for knitted apparel in Dongguan, in China’s Guangdong province, in 2002. He’s proud to be the trusted manufacturing…
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Stratfor
The latest economic data shows lagging domestic consumption and investment and falling demand for exports, which will slow growth, and its long-term economic goals.
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Foreign Policy
Party control is mixed ever more intimately with market mechanisms
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Forbes
China’s 800 year experiment with paper money is almost over, and they’ve decided that its not going to be extended.
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Asia Times Financial
(ATF) Alipay and WeChat Pay are currently the two mainstream digital payment systems in China. Used via mobile phones,...
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The Economist
In a new book, Thomas Orlik argues China is “the bubble that never pops”
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The Economist
Its rebound is also starting to look more sustainable
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Asia Times Financial
Figures from National Bureau of Statistics lack credibility because of its 'cherry-picking approach' and the changing of data from previous years; GDP growth is nowhere near the official figures as interior provinces are in recession, economist says
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The Economist
In many emerging economies, they are the chief source of cross-border loans
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stratfor
Barring significant policy changes that seem implausible for now, the yuan will remain a second-tier (if not third-tier) currency for the foreseeable future.
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Cointelegraph
China’s digital yuan will need plenty of time to beat the U.S. dollar as reserve currency.