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From illusion to empire: chuang on the creation of the chinese economy
Verso
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China and the changing global economic order
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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China’s new five-year plan embraces the third industrial revolution
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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China's economic reforms get another chance
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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Financial reform, with Chinese characteristics
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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China enters the battle for aI talent
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 wave in China will be broad adoption of digitalization by businesses
Next Big Future
Next wave in China will be broad adoption of digitalization by businesses
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China: Writing a check for financial reform
Stratfor
China has issued a blueprint for reforms to its financial system, but there are still obstacles to foreign investment.
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Economic influence in Latin America isn't all about trade
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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China plans to use artificial intelligence to gain global economic dominance by 2030
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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China's financial debt: everything you know is wrong
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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The accelerating disruption of china’s economy
Fortune
What happens when China's e-commerce giants, like Alibaba, go offline?
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China is moderating economic weaknesses and may become reliable global engine in 5-15 years
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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The meteoric rise of Chinese consumerism will reshape the world, and maybe even destroy it
Quartz
The Chinese dream is very much like the American dream—plus 10%, says an expert in Chinese consumerism.
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Louis gave: Why I'm bullish on China
Mauldin Economics
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Behind china’s $1 trillion plan to shake up the economic order
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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China will invest trillions in megacity investments over the next 15 years
Next Big Future
China will invest trillions in megacity investments over the next 15 years
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Chinese investment aid to Sri Lanka has been a major success—for China
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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China paves the way for a new silk road
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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China’s debt-trap diplomacy
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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Why the industrial revolution didn’t happen in China
Washington Post
What really sparked the world’s incredible revolution in wealth.
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The unseen revolution in chinese finances
Stratfor
The impending transformation to the Chinese economy could carry as many risks as it does rewards.
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Top 10 myths about the global economy
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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China goes local
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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China's power move
Scientific American
Reading between the (transmission) lines on Beijing’s global infrastructure projects
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China's staggering demand for commodities
Stratfor
On its own, the country consumes more than half of the world's cement, copper, nickel and steel.
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China’s currency displacing the dollar in global oil trade? Don’t count on it.
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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Made in China 2025: Beijing's manufacturing blueprint and why the world is concerned
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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China's GDP growth may be understated
NBER
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As trade war looms, China wonders whether it's up for the fight
Bloomberg
The Communist Party has become a victim of its own policy success.
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Made in china 2025: the domestic tech plan that sparked an international backlash
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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Why made in china 2025 will succeed, despite trump
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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How china is muscling in on lithium-ion batteries
Stratfor
China is bullish about ensuring control over the entire supply chain for lithium-ion batteries for years to come.
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Chinese internet companies sharpen their competition at home to better compete abroad
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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In china, unweaving the tangled web of local debt
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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Did china think Donald Trump was bluffing on trade? How Beijing got it wrong
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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China: The government confronts the increasing risk of default
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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How cities are saving china
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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Exclusive | ‘made in china 2025’: a peek at the robot revolution under way in the hub of the ‘world’s factory’
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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U.S. tariff threats give china all the more reason to reform its auto sector
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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‘made in china 2025’: china has a competitive ai game plan but success will need cooperation
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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China's dh21 trillion local government debt poses 'titanic risk'
The National
Worry about the sustainability of China’s debt and the increased financial threat is justified, say analysts
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China moves to lift confidence as economic growth hits weakest pace since 2009
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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Net exports have not been a significant driver of China’s economic growth since the financial crisis.
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China’s dangerous dollar addiction
Foreign Policy
China pays for raw materials in greenbacks, but Trump’s trade war could soon dwindle its dollar reserves.
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Credit and credibility: risks to china's economic resilience
CSIS
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A Chinese recession is inevitable - don't think it won't affect you
The Guardian
Analysts say a Chinese recession would only hurt the region. That may be wishful thinking
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How china will handle its trade war with the united states in 2019
Stratfor
Beijing is plotting a number of strategies to manage U.S. pressure in the coming year.
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Why 50 million Chinese homes are empty
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Exclusive: china taking first steps to pay for oil in yuan this year - sources
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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China will overtake the U.S. as world’s top economy in 2020, says standard chartered bank
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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China: A new year brings lower expectations for economic growth
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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The end of strategic luxury for china
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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Why the west should not underestimate china-russia military ties
Stratfor
While China and Russia are not formal allies, the deepening of military relations between the two countries is real.
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China's economic pain will power Southeast Asia's gains
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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China opts for tax cuts to jolt its economy awake
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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Almost one-third of Chinese cities are shrinking, but urban planners told to keep building
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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Beijing makes a push to keep china working at all costs
Stratfor
As the Chinese economy loses steam, its leaders will prioritize heading off the instability that widespread unemployment could bring.
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China and the world: Inside the dynamics of a changing relationship
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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China needs new places to sell its mountain of stuff
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’s Ray Dalio discusses the impact of China’s growth on the world economy
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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Why did china just devalue the yuan?
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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China is about to launch its own digital currency. Here’s what we know so far.
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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China announces timetable for full financial sector opening in 2020
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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Beijing takes stakes in private firms to keep them afloat
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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China’s investment management opportunity
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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Bond defaults have soared in China
The Economist
But officials and some investors see it as a sign of a healthier market
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Weekly global economic update
Deloitte
What's happening this week in economics?
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Is china lying about it's gdp growth? - visualpolitik en
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China may be just about to launch its digital currency in two cities
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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China once stressed the importance of setting minimum wages
Economist
As the economy slows, some officials are becoming lukewarm about the policy
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Yes, virginia, china is exporting its mode
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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Coronavirus and trade and supply chains
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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Surprise: china's economy is smaller than you think
National Interest
Why does China overvalue its GDP?
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Don’t count on china to lift the global economy
Foreign Affairs
China’s vast rural underclass is dragging down growth. 
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More than 240,000 chinese companies declare bankruptcy in the first two months of 2020
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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Report shows economy contracting by 6.8 percent amid covid
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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First the trade war, then the pandemic. Now Chinese manufacturers are turning inward.
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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A slow, uneven return to economic recovery in China
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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Xi Jinping is trying to remake the Chinese economy
Foreign Policy
Party control is mixed ever more intimately with market mechanisms
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The great chinese money experiment is over
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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Digital yuan likely means death for wechat pay, alipay
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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Can china’s economic miracle continue?
The Economist
In a new book, Thomas Orlik argues China is “the bubble that never pops”
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In a world mired in recession, china manages a V-shaped recovery
The Economist
Its rebound is also starting to look more sustainable
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Why China’s official data don’t add up
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 overseas activities of chinese banks shift up a gear
The Economist
In many emerging economies, they are the chief source of cross-border loans
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China lacks the will to usurp the u.s.'s global currency dominance
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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China’s digital yuan is ‘a long way’ from beating USD says financial firm exec
Cointelegraph
China’s digital yuan will need plenty of time to beat the U.S. dollar as reserve currency.