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  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    Gideon Rachman
    China hits the east Asian demographic wall

    Like Japan and South Korea, China has a shrinking population but it has fewer ways to manage the change

    Illustration of Chinese president Xi Jinping riding a big red horse with yellow stars on it which is wading though deep mud
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    Robin Harding
    Beijing must start spending to secure China’s economic future

    To stop a problem becoming a crisis, the government needs to intervene

    Ann Kiernan illustration of a red cap crane bird  running down the line of a graph with its head turned back, holding a red ribbon in its beak that waves back at the vertical line of a graph
  • Monday, 17 July, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    China’s sluggish economic recovery

    Beijing needs to avoid a potentially debilitating deflationary cycle

    A worker prepares steel bars at a site in China’s eastern Jiangsu province
  • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
    Tao Wang
    A spending injection alone is not the cure for China’s ailing economic recovery

    Since high debt and a weakening property market will limit any stimulus, structural measures are needed

    Unfinished buildings, abandoned part way through construction, in Wuxi, China
  • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
    China’s Communist party congress
    China’s property crash: ‘a slow-motion financial crisis’

    In the first part of a series, the impact of falling house prices is examined as it spreads to local government finances and the broader economy

    Montage of images of unfinished house development, against blue background with red dot graph of falling house prices
  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Xi’s strongman tactics need flexibility to tackle Covid

    The economic fallout of China’s lockdowns looks set to be profound

    A medical worker takes a nasal swab sample from a man in Xiayi in China’s central Henan province
  • Sunday, 26 April, 2020
    Michael Pettis
    China’s economy can only grow with more state control not less

    Beijing’s repeated pledges to shrink the state are both empty and impossible

    Workers maintain Wuzuohe Bridge in Bijie, Guizhou province. China is massively overinvested in infrastructure
  • Monday, 24 February, 2020
    News in-depthEM Squared
    Global inventories at 7-year low prior to coronavirus hit Premium content

    Manufacturers’ vulnerability to supply chain shock intensified by rundown in stock levels

  • Thursday, 26 December, 2019
    Chinese business & finance
    Corporate defaults in China surge in 2019 to record high $18.6bn

    Rapid expansion of private company debt linked to shadow banking fuels distress

    Superdry Takeover Austin Reed Store On Regent Street...Pedestrians pass the Aquascutum Ltd store on Regent Street in London, U.K., on Thursday, June 3, 2011. SuperGroup Plc, the U.K. owner of the Superdry brand, are set to take over the Regent Street store presently occupied by Austin Reed Ltd. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2019
    Automobiles
    Global car slowdown hits German industrial groups

    Infineon, Continental and Osram suffer as falling auto production depresses earnings

    Robotic arms manufactured by Kuka AG scan the body of a fully assembled a Volkswagen AG (VW) ID.3 electric automobile during quality checks at the automaker's factory in Zwickau, Germany, on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. Angela Merkel’s visit to a revamped VW electric-car plant in Zwickau on Monday is a stark reminder of what's at stake both for the German chancellor and VW boss Herbert Diess. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2019
    News in-depth
    China’s waning appetite for stimulus weighs on global economy

    Beijing’s economic options have narrowed, limiting scope for growth boost

    A motorist rides past a construction site in Shijingshan District in Beijing, China, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. China is facing its most difficult economic environment in years. The world's second-biggest economy is in a trade standoff with the biggest -- the U.S. -- and under pressure from President Xi Jinping's "critical battles" to reduce China's massive debt pile and clean up toxic air pollution. Photographer: Giulia Marchi/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 25 October, 2019
    FT Confidential Research
    How China’s mystery author called its economic slowdown Premium content

    Hopes for recovery are being pushed to 2020 but structural forces will continue to weigh

  • Thursday, 17 October, 2019
    News in-depth
    Chinese local government funds run out of projects to back

    Malaise in vehicles used to boost economy reflects dwindling options for policymakers

  • Monday, 7 October, 2019
    Global economic growth
    Global economic gloom spreads despite bright jobs markets

    Effects of trade war have moved beyond manufacturing and raised recession fears

    Shipping containers sit stacked on the Maersk Edinburgh cargo ship at the APM shipping terminal in the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. The terminal has ordered an electric, automated carrier from Finnish manufacturer Kalmar, part of the Cargotec Corp., that can fulfill the functions of three kinds of manned diesel vehicles: a crane, top-loader and truck. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2019
    News in-depth
    China’s regions hit by infrastructure spending downturn

    Bridge, rail and road building seen as vital to development of poorer provinces

    TOPSHOT - This photo taken on July 7, 2019 shows the main structure of the Jimingsansheng Bridge as it is joined together in Xuyong county in Luzhou City in China's southwestern Sichuan province. - The bridge joins southwest China's Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUTSTR/AFP/Getty Images
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2019
    News in-depth
    China’s economy caught in trade dispute crossfire

    Cutting global ties could threaten productivity, a main growth driver

    A technician controls an industrial robot fitted with an artificial hand on the testing line of a factory operated by E-Deodar Robot Equipment Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ningbo Techmation Co., in Foshan, China, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Startup E-Deodar is building $15,000 industrial bots that are about a third cheaper than foreign brands and are being used to automate assembly lines across the Pearl River Delta manufacturing hub. China is embracing robotics with the same full-on intensity that's made it a force in high-speed rail and renewable energy. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
  • Monday, 5 August, 2019
    FT Confidential Research
    Can China beat its addiction to real estate? Premium content

    Housing stimulus has been ruled out but economy will struggle with withdrawal symptoms

  • Monday, 29 July, 2019
    FT Confidential Research
    Chinese exporters see endless trade war as orders drop Premium content

    July surveys show fresh signs of economic weakness as stimulus hopes build

  • Monday, 29 July, 2019
    FT Confidential Research
    China’s property lust underpins consumer sentiment Premium content

    Rising house prices keep multiple homeowners happy for now despite slowing economy

  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2019
    FT Confidential Research
    China’s struggling economy faces moment of truth Premium content

    No end in sight for slowdown unless government retreats further from debt commitments

  • Monday, 15 July, 2019
    Chinese economy
    China’s economy grows at slowest rate in nearly 30 years

    US tariffs having ‘major effect’ on companies ‘wanting to leave China’, says Trump

    Most of the weakness in second-quarter GDP came from exports, which contracted in June
  • Friday, 28 June, 2019
    FT Confidential Research
    China housing market cools as calls for stimulus grow Premium content

    Developers report slower activity but flagging economy could result in looser policy 

  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2019
    FT Confidential Research
    China exporters warn of slowdown in trade war's shadow Premium content

    More firms say trade war hurting as FTCR index falls to three-year low

  • Monday, 24 June, 2019
    FT Confidential Research
    Living costs trump trade war for China’s consumers Premium content

    Households say domestic concerns far more worrying than US tariff actions

  • Sunday, 23 June, 2019
    scoutAsia Research
    China’s small bank blow-up darkens economic outlook Premium content

    Latest interbank market squall spells more trouble for private company financing

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