The administration of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, with the help of Congressional allies, is weighing a series of retaliatory measures to hold the Chinese government accountable for the human

China’s Politburo has approved a series of high-level fiscal stimulus guidelines that will be formally announced by Premier Li Keqiang and submitted for review at the Third Session of the

For some weeks now, Beijing has lashed out at any reference by senior officials in Washington to the COVID-19 pandemic as a “Wuhan,” or “China” virus. Since then, President Donald

On Friday, April 17, 10 a.m. Beijing time, China’s National Bureau of Statistics will release major economic data for Q1 and March of 2020. Reflecting an enormously volatile period of COVID-19 turmoil

China’s President Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee on Friday morning in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, to refine a series of COVID-19

Please note: this report reflects the assessment by Beijing’s leadership of the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank actions, potential US fiscal actions, risk points, and the impact of policy decisions and

Rumors are swirling about a Jerusalem Post article claiming Israeli scientists are “on the cusp” of developing a coronavirus vaccine, one which will be ready within three weeks and available for distribution

On Tuesday, a senior US health official warned that a broader spread of the COVID-19 disease in the United States was a matter of “when,” and not “if,” and painted

Saudi policy officials were said to be somewhat taken aback by the concern, if not gloominess, of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors over the risks for an extended global

Markets have been trying to “look through” the COVID-19 epidemic, taking solace in figures indicating a deceleration in the rate of new outbreaks and deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic that

We are pleased to share the attached PDF report summarizing the latest thinking in the scientific community on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and COVID disease produced exclusively for SGH Macro

Markets were cheered yesterday by the announcement that China would cut tariffs on $75 billion dollars’ worth of imports from the United States, a step that was agreed to already

China’s Premier Li Keqiang, who has been tasked to lead the novel coronavirus prevention and control task group of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee, convened a high-level expert

On Tuesday, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s highest macroeconomic planning agency, submitted its preliminary assessment of the economic impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak to China’s State

On Saturday, the first day of China’s Year of the Rat, President Xi Jinping chaired a meeting in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the

On Monday evening, Zhong Nanshan, a renowned respiratory expert and head of a high-level expert team of the National Health Commission (NHC), reported to Premier Li Keqiang at the State

China’s Vice Premier Liu He hailed the phase-one trade agreement that was signed yesterday in a grand ceremony at the White House with US Donald Trump for having respected China’s

As has been telegraphed for over two months now, with the real breakthrough having come in October, US President Donald Trump and Vice Premier Liu He of China will finally

While applauding the de-escalation of trade tensions with the United States, it should be noted that Chinese officials have maintained, beyond general platitudes, a stony silence on any of the

The 2019 Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC), attended by members of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and including all ministers and provincial leaders, was held at the Jingxi