In Focus | Family firms power China’s economy – but what happens when the heirs refuse the throne?
Many Chinese tend to label the offspring of the country’s nouveau riche private business founders with the pejorative…
Why has the China-US profit gap widened on the Fortune Global 500?
China’s unaddressed economic structural problems are swallowing profits and leaving its multinationals falling far behind their US peers…
Can China and Indonesia’s strong financial ties withstand ‘resource nationalism’?
Back in 2009, when China’s economy was expanding at about twice today’s pace, a little-known private firm made…
Lower profit margins set to foil Chinese carmakers’ price war plans despite falling sales
Narrowing profit margins due to higher raw material costs have dealt yet another major blow to China’s carmakers…
How Hong Kong is fighting to redefine its future with an institutional moat, wealth surge
For decades, warnings of Hong Kong’s terminal decline have arrived in periodic waves. When Stephen Roach, the former…
Soldiers without uniforms: Line between civilian and military in age of AI
On June 8, 2026, the Pentagon expanded its “Chinese Military Companies” list from 134 to 188 firms. Among…
What’s Powering Clean Energy – Heatmap News
Where the smoke from any of the resulting fires actually goes is far less predictable, however, subject to…
Chinese investment in Europe surges to 7-year high despite rising trade tensions
Chinese investment in Europe hit a seven-year high of €16.8 billion (US$19.5 billion) in 2025, driven by a…
Shenzhen’s retail sales flatline as export boom fails to benefit residents
China’s top tech hub, Shenzhen, saw retail sales grow by just 0.5 per cent year on year in…
Guangdong’s rule as China’s GDP king faces an unprecedented threat to the crown
The long-standing rivalry between China’s two largest economic heavyweights – with each boasting a gross domestic product comparable…
Chinese automaker BYD’s new-generation fast chargers to hit Israel later this year
Israel will be included later this year in the first European rollouts of Chinese car manufacturer BYD’s ultra-fast…
The auto industry’s ‘annus horribilis’: Trump’s tariffs, Chinese rivals and EV slowdown drag the sector into heavy losses | Economy and Business
“Our business model has changed.” That’s what Oliver Blume, the chief executive of the Volkswagen Group, Europe’s largest…