The Political Bureau of China’s CPC Central Committee convened on the morning of Friday, April 28, in Zhongnanhai for a three-and-a-half hour meeting to analyze the country’s current economic situation

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived in Shanghai late Wednesday to kick off a three-day state visit, from April 12-15, postponed from its original date due to health

Economic activity in China picked up in March, leading us to pencil in a Q1 2023 GDP year-on-year growth rate that could come in with a 4% handle, above consensus

The well-telegraphed “transit” of Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen through the United States has concluded, followed by three-days of equally telegraphed military drills in protest launched by China’s People’s Liberation Army

Officials in Beijing assess incoming Q1 data to have shown “stable improvement across the board” as the economy entered what is being characterized as a “fast lane” of recovery following

Borrowing from a tried and tested old “checkbook diplomacy” playbook,  China, according to sources in Beijing, “will meet [French President Emmanuel] Macron’s expectations and give a huge amount of trade

As Taiwan’s pro-independence President Tsai Ing-wen continues on her well telegraphed 10-day trip to the United States, Belize, and Guatemala, neither Beijing nor Washington has shown much appetite for escalating

The most notable development for financial markets from China’s annual “Two Sessions” meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), (other than the formal

The 1st session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the 1st session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC), also collectively known

China’s incoming Premier Li Qiang and the four incoming Vice Premiers, with the endorsement of outgoing Premier Li Keqiang, held a series of symposiums since last week inviting retired and

In mid-January, China’s State Council reviewed and approved the National Development and Reform Commission’s plan for 2023 major industrial output targets and the NDRC/Ministry of Commerce plan for 2023 major

Over the weekend, on Saturday February 4, at 2:39 PM Eastern Time a US Air Force F-22 Raptor jet, flying at 58,000 feet, shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon over

The Second Plenary Session of the 20th CPC (Communist Party of China) Central Committee will be held later this month in Beijing. Three key topics of the upcoming second plenary

On Saturday, the first working day after China’s week-long Spring Festival holidays, Premier Li Keqiang convened a State Council Executive Meeting in coordination with the heads of provinces, autonomous regions,

Beijing continues to provide absurdly low figures for the recent wave of Covid deaths across China resulting from the sudden re-opening and reversal of the country’s zero-Covid policy. We are

All eyes were focused yesterday on the historic speech that was given by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to the United States Congress, in which he eloquently outlined the determination and

Some days have passed, and the press coverage has long settled on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s highly choreographed trip to Saudi Arabia and regional tour de force which we also

The 2012 Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) was held at Jingxi Hotel in Beijing on December 15-16, Thursday-Friday, local dates. The meeting reviewed China’s economic work in 2022, analyzed the

China’s top leader Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Tuesday to analyze and study the economic work in 2023. Outgoing

Covid Vaccinations A senior economic official in Beijing notes that hundreds of cities across the country are easing anti-Covid restrictions and are “optimizing Covid measures, striking a new balance between