Albert Park, the Asian Development Bank's Chief Economist, discusses China's measures to boost economic growth as the ADB ...

China's exports returned to growth in November after an unexpected contraction in October, pushing its trade surplus for 2025 ...

It has been a good year for China. The country is winning its trade war with America. China is mastering new technologies and becoming an even more fearsome competitor in global markets. But it faces ...

America wants to reduce its reliance on Chinese supply chains, since it remains in a trade war that is only temporarily on hold. The government frets already about China’s chokehold on active drug ...

Yet in more recent months, the market has fallen back into the basement. Prices in China’s 70 biggest cities dropped in October at the steepest monthly rate in a year. Although the record-breaking ...

Last month Takaichi Sanae, Japan’s prime minister, said that an invasion of Taiwan could cross the threshold that requires a ...

In medicine, meanwhile, China has turned itself from a copycat maker of generics into the world’s second-largest developer of ...

What does China achieve in using such blunt economic weapons in bilateral spats? It is tempting to dismiss these as acts of ...

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Much of the rich world has turned its back on Africa and is no longer shy about it. President Donald Trump’s drastic aid cuts are well documented, but Britain and the EU have also trimmed their ...

A leaked video of his court-martial has suddenly appeared ...