On February 13, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met with his US counterpart Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Munich and relayed that President Xi Jinping welcomes President Donald Trump’s

A brief note on Beijing’s targets in advancing the role of the RMB (renminbi) as a global alternative to the US dollar, with a plan for continued gradual strategic reductions

The weekend purge of General Zhang Youxia from China’s supreme, 4-person Central Military Commission (CMC) that includes President Xi Jinping on charges of selling nuclear secrets to the United States

We will skip over the expressions of shock, accusations of lawless hegemony, and other such to-be-expected denunciations coming from China of the Trump administration’s daring capture and extradition to the

A very brief update to our note from last Thursday (SGH 12/11/25; “China: The Chips Race”): On Friday, White House AI Czar David Sacks was reported to have said that

The concluding three-day 2025 Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) meetings held at the Jiangxi Hotel in Beijing, aimed at setting China’s guiding principles and development goals for economic work in

According to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planning agency, China’s economy continued on a steady growth path in October. In light of the most recent

Chinese sources have provided the following version and details of the trade negotiations between US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and China’s Vice-Premier He Lifeng that concluded Sunday afternoon

China’s Premier Li Qiang, other State Council leaders, and senior officials of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission (CFEAC) took only the first four days off during China’s Super

Without having taken any significant steps to address or even acknowledge its role in turning a blind eye to – and thus abetting – the export of precursors of fentanyl from

Xi-Trump Meeting China and the US have been holding consultations regarding the upcoming meeting between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump in Gyeongju, South Korea on the sidelines of

Beijing has keyed off Wall Street and US President Donald Trump’s eagerness to conclude a Tik Tok ownership deal with China and, dangling its control over rare earth exports and

There has been some speculation in Western media outlets that China may be considering launching an RMB (renminbi) backed stablecoin and that the State Council will review and possibly approve

Following a Saturday phone call by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, to brief China on the Russia-US summit, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin personally called

China’s Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission (CFEAC) held two days of meetings in Beidaihe on Thursday and Friday (August 7-8) to discuss and review a draft for “The 15th

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin called China’s President Xi Jinping to secure Beijing’s backing one day after receiving US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and a few hours before

The Communist Party of China’s Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission (CFEAC) held the 3rd of its eight summer meetings in Zhongnanhai on the morning of Thursday, July 31. President Xi Jinping,

Some interesting comments from an economic official in China in the run-up to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s meeting next week in Stockholm with his Chinese counterpart, Vice-Premier He Lifeng,

Rumors have been swirling over the past few weeks that China’s President Xi Jinping, after a breathtaking consolidation of power not seen since the days of Mao Zedong, is facing

At a meeting on Monday, June 23, China’s top decision-making body, the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee, endorsed “the framework for implementation of the Geneva trade