China navigates US threats to anchor global shipbuilding dominance in 2025
China secured the most new shipbuilding orders globally in 2025 despite a slight dip in market share, showing…
Japan retrieves rare earth-rich mud from seabed to lower reliance on China
TOKYO (AP) — Japan said Monday it has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals…
‘Are you dead?’ app and ‘crying horse’ plushie are a hit
While Americans worry about inflation and affordability, the Chinese are fretting about deflation and a down economy. To…
China’s shipbuilding sector maintains global lead in 2025
BEIJING — China”s shipbuilding industry maintained the world’s largest market share in terms of three major indicators for…
China’s export-led growth is looking more and more unsustainable while a real estate crash and reeling consumers fuel deflationary spiral
The flood of Chinese exports around the world helped the economy blow past President Donald Trump’s massive tariff…
Trade war, global instability push de-dollarisation into China’s academic mainstream
Interest in de-dollarisation has spiked in Chinese academic and policy circles, as Beijing grows increasingly wary of the…
Open Questions | Lawrence Lau on why China must ‘work smarter’ and how it can invent from scratch
Lawrence J. Lau is a Hong Kong economist specialising in economic development and East Asian economies. He was…
China launches AlSat-3B for Algeria, further launches delayed ahead of key human spaceflight test
HELSINKI — China launched a satellite for Algeria late Friday, as signs mount that multiple missions have been…
Saudi Arabia set to redraw economic road map as megaprojects scale down
Almost a decade after launching the Vision 2030 programme to diversify its oil-dependent economy, Saudi Arabia is redirecting…
New rules of expansion: Chinese firms urged to ‘go local’ as they chase sales abroad
As dwindling domestic profits push more Chinese firms onto the global stage, industry titans – forerunners who know…
China’s plan to internationalise yuan quietly takes a step forward as Zambia gets on board
As of January, Zambia has begun collecting taxes and royalties from Chinese mining firms in yuan, and will…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang urges TSMC to expand capacity amid AI chip crunch
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) needs to “work very hard” to meet growing demand from leading US chip…