China’s Premier Li Keqiang presided over a meeting of the major economic departments of the State Council in Zhongnanhai last Friday after presiding over a symposium on the country’s economic
With no details provided to the public by either Washington or Beijing on the three-and-a-half-hour Monday night video meeting between US President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping, the
Beijing received a request from Washington last week for a virtual summit between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping to be held before November 20. The two sides agreed
The United States and European Union announced yesterday a pause in a trade dispute over steel and aluminum triggered in 2018 when the administration of then President Donald Trump, citing
GDP and Stimulus Over the weekend, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported a deceleration in the country’s Q3 year on year GDP growth rate to 4.9% from 7.9% the
On Tuesday morning, Premier Li Keqiang presided over a meeting in Zhongnanhai to address China’s severe power shortages and rolling blackouts. As has been picked up by some media, the
Premier Li Keqiang, who is also the head of China’s National Energy Committee, presided over three meetings in Zhongnanhai over the last ten days. In those meetings, he stressed that
On the morning of October 9 (local time) China’s Vice Premier Liu He held a video call with US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, marking the second time that Liu and
Three weeks ago, following the Xi-Biden telephone call of September 9, the US offered to send President Joseph Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to Beijing, but the Chinese side
On Tuesday morning, Premier Li Keqiang presided over a meeting in Zhongnanhai to address China’s severe power shortages and rolling blackouts. As has been picked up by some media, the
Happy (almost) Friday – well it seems always exciting! Debt ceiling standoff (a real one still), reconciliation and infrastructure fight, inflation and supply chain risks, Fed appointment challenges, energy crises,
While real estate giant Evergrande’s financial distress has been evident for weeks if not months, the prospects of an official default by the second largest developer in China roiled financial
While real estate giant Evergrande’s financial distress has been evident for weeks if not months, the prospects of an official default by the second largest developer in China roiled financial
In the interest of efficiency and time I thought we might share a few brief highlights of key market related points in (and not in) our reports while addressing some
On Thursday evening September 10, Friday morning Beijing time, US President Joseph Biden called China’s President Xi Jinping and the two leaders spoke for 92 minutes, to be precise. While
China and the US have not yet held any formal or vice-ministerial level consultations on the elimination of tariffs, but our understanding is that the two sides have begun informal
A senior Chinese official commented to our contacts in Beijing on the latest in a series of government crackdowns, this one on peer-to-peer lending platforms and financial media/bloggers. Separately, China’s
When China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with the Taliban’s second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Tianjin two weeks ago, Baradar boasted that the Taliban could return to Kabul and
Chinese leaders have returned to Beijing this weekend after their traditional secretive summer outing in the resort of Beidaihe. They offered the following comments on US-China dialogue and on reports
China’s President Xi Jinping presided over the fourth of eight summer-scheduled Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission (CFEAC) meetings in Zhongnanhai, Beijing on Thursday, July 29. That meeting formulated monetary
