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’s Guangdong province exports record US$140 billion of tech, high-value goods
Exports of chip-manufacturing equipment, electric vehicles (EVs) and other high-value goods from China’s southern Guangdong province rose to…
China’s private sector increases presence among top 100 listed companies
Private sector enterprises comprised 40 per cent of the top 100 listed Chinese companies by market value in…
Can rising lithium costs save China’s energy storage firms from a brutal price war?
China’s energy storage firms, battered by a three-year price war, have been jolted by lithium battery maker Deegares,…
China’s growing young billionaire class masks innovation hurdles, analysts say
While China continues to produce many young self-made billionaires, showcasing its economic dynamism, observers have urged the creation…
‘Blue ocean market’: why Brazil is becoming a magnet for Chinese investment
With their domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China’s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints…
Factory of factories: China’s manufacturers join wave of overseas expansions
With domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China’s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in…
Open Questions | Why US economist Nicholas Lardy thinks the ‘peak China’ theory has peaked
Nicholas Lardy is a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a member of…
Jonathan Becker on 25 Years of Photographing Paris’s Le Bal des Débutantes
A tradition born of real purpose can, over time, calcify into something so peculiar that it obscures why…
Chinese automaker BYD begins sales of new electric model in Israel
Visitors view a BYD vehicle at the Auto World Show in Hawalli Governorate, Kuwait, on Sept 22, 2025.…
Inside Bhutan’s US$100 billion plan to build ‘happy’ Singapore-inspired economic hub
Bhutan is a nation that prides itself on happiness over productivity, being the only net negative emission country…
China shift to higher-end exports boosts margins, mutual gains as US reliance dips: report
Flagship Chinese companies, spanning sectors from tech to retail, are increasingly shunning the United States and expanding in…