August 25, 2023 10:54 AM ISTThe dollar is the fortress China struggles to breach
Beijing’s prowess at attracting supply chains over the past three decades, notwithstanding, China doesn't have a currency to back its ambitions — yet. Ironically, the dollar has become more dominant even as the US recedes as a proportion of global GDP, relative to the likes of China and India
August 25, 2023 10:19 AM ISTChina’s growing woes send alarm bells ringing at Indian companies
Private Indian companies cannot exit China completely to avoid the repercussions of a slowing Chinese economy. But they can begin to take long-term calls on strategy
August 24, 2023 09:10 AM ISTResolving India’s BRICS dilemma calls for shrewd exercise of limited leverage
India needs to be inside the BRICS room to build its sphere of influence in the Global South and prevent a quite takeover by China but also be counted among its Westphalian friends
August 21, 2023 12:42 PM ISTChina’s confidence deficit
Faced with sagging demand and a teetering property sector, Chinese authorities have tried nearly everything
August 21, 2023 11:24 AM ISTA large private wealth manager's crisis exposes another rot in China's financial system
An economic downturn, along with the real estate slump, certainly contributed to the the $137 billion Zhongzhi conglomerate’s woes. China has been cracking down on shadow banking since late 2017. So people naturally ask why this is happening now, and whether there are more blowups coming
August 21, 2023 08:32 AM ISTXi Jinping’s ideological dictums leave China in a soup over economic growth
The contradictions in Xi’s ideology, as a functional instrument beyond political rhetoric, that seeks to mobilize economic instruments for growth, negatively impact the very economic governance system that gave China its growth
August 21, 2023 08:01 AM ISTChina’s underwhelming response to its economic woes has global consequences
China’s size means a slowdown there will pull down global growth. It’s time for the Chinese government and policymakers to introduce confidence-boosting measures
August 18, 2023 08:34 AM ISTThere’s a war below the sea over submarine cables
Globally, of the 486 cables currently in use, 148 undersea cables are slated to reach the end of their service life within the next ten years and need to be replaced. Another 80 are under construction and slated to be ready around 2025
- August 17, 2023 12:22 PM IST
Lessons on deflation, demography & democracy from the China model
As China's political economy faces yet another challenge, it is time for the developing countries of the global South to reflect on the governance model that China offers and seeks to promote
August 17, 2023 10:50 AM ISTGlobal investors dump Chinese securities as state support hopes fade
Reversal of flows reflects crumbling confidence in promises made by party leaders
August 16, 2023 12:00 PM ISTLEX | China banks: risky trusts overshadow larger lending peers
Rising youth unemployment and missed economic forecasts pose a serious challenge for lenders
August 16, 2023 09:43 AM ISTChina Economy: Rate cut should not have come as a surprise
With growth disappointing and prices declining, Tuesday's easing ought to have been a no-brainer. The world has become so accustomed to a China that turns in enviable economic results that it's hard to get our heads around what happens when slow growth becomes the norm rather than the exception
August 11, 2023 03:17 PM ISTChina's economic shocks have thrown the world off-balance
Just as the world was hoping to shake off the shocks induced by the pandemic and the Ukraine war, exports have swooned in China, imports dropped alarmingly and, after months of anemic inflation, consumer prices actually fell in July from a year ago. Though this could be temporary, there's a troubling lack of demand in the world's second-largest economy.
August 11, 2023 01:58 PM ISTProxy war in South China Sea a reaction to Taiwan VP’s US stop-over plans
China does not want officials or political leaders in the US to meet Lai or any other important Taiwanese politicians during what Beijing calls “sneaky visits by independence separatists” from its renegade province
August 11, 2023 12:55 PM ISTUS investors face uncertain future in China after tech ban
Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration’s crackdown
August 10, 2023 09:42 AM ISTThree factors that prevent India and China from getting close
Bilateral trade between China and India will expand, but in today’s era politics trumps economics. Three structural factors – clashing zones of influence, China leveraging its asymmetry at the border, and India’s proximity to US – will keep the relationship difficult and volatile
August 09, 2023 12:50 PM ISTHow China cornered the market for clean tech
The country is the biggest supplier of materials vital for the energy transition. That could give it geopolitical leverage
August 09, 2023 12:34 PM ISTIn China, it’s already cheaper to buy EVs than petrol cars
Battery vehicles have struggled with a higher cost structure that even subsidies and manufacturer losses haven’t helped surmount. That’s finally changing. Seven of the 10 best-selling cars in China in June were EVs. Battery and plug-in hybrid vehicles now account for 37% of sales, trumping Beijing’s 2019 policy for 25% of the market to be electrified by 2025
August 08, 2023 08:34 AM ISTWhy global capital is souring on China
Geopolitics, and hegemonic rivalry, are part of the story—a key part but not the whole story. Geoeconomics, a troubled economy, domestic policy, and the risk of war over Taiwan are the other parts to the growing unease towards China
August 04, 2023 12:24 PM ISTChina’s G-20 climate wrecking tactics threaten its global role
At a disastrous G-20 climate ministers’ meeting in Chennai, China’s negotiator reportedly teamed up with Saudi Arabia and refused to discuss a 2025 global emissions target. Retreating from its key role in the 2015 Paris Agreement and its 2020 commitment to net-zero emissions would be disastrous to the world’s climate trajectory and China’s global role
August 02, 2023 03:11 PM ISTMoneycontrol Pro Panorama | Golden opportunities
In today’s edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: GST on online gaming turnover a self-inflicted wound, the rural consumption story for July, commercial realty space in trouble, services sector comes out all guns blazing, and more
- August 02, 2023 11:44 AM IST
Beijing holds China’s economic future in its hands
To stop a problem becoming a crisis, the government needs to start spending
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