The administration of US President Joseph Biden has announced that it will be reviewing all aspects of the Phase One trade accord with China that was concluded under the Trump
China’s holdings of foreign government bonds in its FX reserves increased by $43.191 billion through 2020, with about 65% of that rise, unadjusted for currency fluctuations, coming from European government
In a message that appears clearly intended to counter increasingly hawkish rate expectations, senior sources from the People’s Bank of China convey that the key short-term interest rates that have
China’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $38.032 billion, or 1.2%, in December of 2020, standing at $3.216522 trillion by the close of the 2020 calendar year and marking the highest
At a panel discussion of the recently concluded Central Economic Work Conference, Yi Huiman, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), delivered a bullish outlook for China’s A-share and
People’s Bank of China sources note a steady flow of capital into Chinese bonds, stocks and investment projects, and expect those inflows to continue next year as the Federal Reserve,
In what appears to be a deliberately timed missive to the markets, officials from the People’s Bank of China noted to us that the offshore Renminbi strengthened beyond the psychologically
The US Congress and the administration of President Donald Trump have been ratcheting up the pressure on China as their respective terms draw to a close: the House of Representatives
On Sunday, November 22, Vice Premier Liu He presided over a meeting in Zhongnanhai of the Financial Stability and Development Committee of the State Council to study how better to
The financial press post-mortems of Beijing’s decision to postpone the highly anticipated Ant IPO have been focused largely on the personal animosity between the firm’s founder Jack Ma and China’s
A senior source from China’s Central National Security Council gave a briefing on background in which he summarized the agency’s analysis of the US election results and offered some broad
A top-level official in China commented on background yesterday on the very tenuous but now likely attempts by Beijing to reset China-US economic and trade relations after the US presidential
China’s top decision-making body, the Politburo of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, presided over the Fifth Plenum of the 19th CPC Central Committee that was held in Beijing’s
The Chinese Yuan sold off by around 0.75% against the US Dollar on Monday on the announcement that the People’s Bank of China would eliminate a 20% reserve requirement —
Four ministries recently submitted a joint report to China’s State Council and to the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs (CCFEA) on how to respond to the most recent
China’s Vice-Premier Liu He and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are scheduled to review the implementation of the Phase One trade agreement between the US and China by videoconference this
President Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee on July 30 in Zhongnanhai. Focused on the drafting of a
The US State Department announced today that it had ordered the closure within 72 hours of China’s Consulate General office in Houston, “in order to protect American intellectual property and
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week announced a ban on the addition of any new Huawei components to British 5G networks effective December 31 and a phase-out of Huawei
The National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) will release major economic data for H1, Q1 and June 2020 this Thursday, July 16, followed by a press conference at 10:00