Over the past few years, the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship and the bourgeois media have repeatedly claimed that "a ...

After buying a house, owning a car used to be another major investment for Chinese people, but most can't afford one now.

As Beijing pushes consumer lending to stimulate the economy, millions of Chinese borrowers, especially the young, are falling into debt spirals. By Li Yuan China is a nation of savers. The Chinese ...

China's restrained approach to uplift its slowing economy "reflects concerns over local government debt burdens and the ...

THE RISE of a property-owning, entrepreneurial middle class in China has transformed its cities in this century. It has helped to spur consumption in the world’s second-largest economy. In May retail ...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) forecasts that this year’s global economic growth rate will be 2.9%, falling short of last year’s 3.2%. The International Monetary ...

US President Trump appears once again to have flipped on his latest threat to impose an additional 100 percent tariff on Chinese goods following a decision by Beijing to introduce export licensing on ...

Tesla has fully drawn down its China Working Capital Facility to $5.8 billion, according to its Q1 2026 10-Q filing — a 35% increase in a single quarter. The facility, which didn’t exist two years ago ...

The United States is in debt with China for hundreds of billions of dollars, yet that sum is miniscule when compared to the total national debt, and the amount of debt owed to other bond holders. As ...

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif leads a delegation in discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, Sep. 2, 2025. Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Pakistan During the ...

Chinese overseas lending is currently undergoing a transition. During the decade from 2010 to 2020, Chinese policy banks – particularly the Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) and the China ...