The State Department failed to consider worst-case scenarios or listen to alternate views, the review says.

The mostly white, mostly male world of China analysis is starting to change.

The wait-and-see attitude of home buyers is deepening the slump and complicating policy makers’ attempts to revive economic growth.

China's official economic data seem to show a remarkable economic recovery from the pandemic. They don't hold up to scrutiny.

Local governments in China have asked several companies to pay tax bills dating back as far as the 1990s, underscoring their need for funding due to the uneven economic recovery and persistent...

Burned by years of underperformance in Chinese domestic stocks, local investor appetite for overseas equities is running so high that it’s fueling huge price distortions in funds tracking these...

China’s home prices fell for a ninth month in May, signaling demand remains weak despite increased government support for the slumping property market.

Growth is plummeting, but policy makers are largely standing pat—a reflection of how much China’s zero-Covid policy and the Fed rate-raising cycle tie officials’ hands.

Box-ship carriers cancel up to a third of ship capacity across the Pacific as demand from American and European consumers evaporates.

Household spending in Japan fell 1.9% year-on-year in August, a softer fall compared to the 2.6% decline expected by a Reuters poll of economists.

Microsoft halts LinkedIn China to launch stand-alone job search site.

It's time to recognize the obvious, Shehzad H. Qazi writes in a commentary essay. The Chinese economy no longer operates under the same principles Wall Street has grown accustomed to.

A clutch of chart patterns suggests equities from China and Hong Kong are barreling toward more losses.

China is pushing hard to prop up its embattled property market to help reignite growth in the world’s second-largest economy that has been crippled by years of Covid restrictions.

China’s bank loans to the real economy contracted for the first time in 19 years, a grim milestone that underscores why weak domestic demand has emerged as a major hurdle to the economy’s growth and...

It's time to recognize the obvious, Shehzad H. Qazi writes in a commentary essay. The Chinese economy no longer operates under the same principles Wall Street has grown accustomed to.

Companies report local officials are monitoring production lines to speed up supplies

A new approach by China’s top leaders is bold but pales against the problem: a vast number of empty apartments no one wants to buy.

China is reporting fewer Covid-19 cases as a wave that started to accelerate last month appears to be tailing off amid a pullback in the sweeping testing regime that saw a negative result needed to...

Corruption sentences serve as warning against disobedience but also expose leader’s ‘dirty work’

With youth unemployment at a record, the Communist Party is trying to reset expectations about social mobility by talking up the virtue of hardship.

The greenback’s buying power grows, as euro, yuan, and yen falter. But volatile currency markets signal distress.

Emerging markets also using levies to force China to build manufacturing plants within their borders

The company is laying the foundation to make phones elsewhere, from the screws on up.

For years, foreigners loaded up on debt from Chinese state-owned lenders known as policy banks, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a rethink of those investments.

The lack of confidence is so entrenched among China’s equity investors that government efforts to boost growth are repeatedly met by calls for Beijing to do more.

Tencent posted its first ever quarterly year-on-year revenue decline as stricter regulations around gaming in China and a resurgence of Covid hit the tech giant.

Stimulus that could build on Tuesday's rate cut is likely coming, but more trouble may be needed before Beijing makes an aggressive move.

As China tightens its grip on Hong Kong, fear is stemming the free flow of information and driving discussion of once-routine business and economic topics underground.

Foreign luxury-goods makers are among those getting a boost from the country’s reopening.

China approved more than 50 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power in the first half of 2023, research by environment group Greenpeace showed, with the world's top carbon polluter focused on energy...

Chinese authorities relaxed homebuying curbs in Beijing and Shanghai, extending efforts seen in major cities to stem an unprecedented housing downturn.

Consumer prices in the world’s second-largest economy have held relatively steady, but China’s experience will be hard to replicate elsewhere.

The probability that accounting problems will occur increases as Chinese firms perform a larger share of an audit, say three professors.

Construction cranes stand idle in China’s Yunnan Province, on the easternmost edge of the Himalayas. Building has ground to a halt on Hainan, off the coast of Vietnam, and up in Heilongjiang, along...

China’s lack of intensive care hospital beds leaves the nation facing a slow exit from Covid Zero, likely stretching beyond 2023.

Vanguard Group Inc., the US asset management giant, has decided to shutter its remaining business in China after a retreat two years ago, according to people familiar with the matter, abandoning a 27...

After triggering a years-long exodus of foreign investors from Chinese markets, President Xi Jinping looked like he’d cracked the formula to revive his economy and lure back global funds.

Finance chiefs in Beijing are testing new ways to boost the economy by encouraging demand, breaking with long-established practice as threats to the country’s growth target mount.

The Communist Party controls China's bank lending, making a 2008-style financial crisis essentially impossible, write Shehzad Qazi and Derek Scissors of China Beige Book.

A Chinese city will use lockdowns and school and business closures as part of a plan to contain influenza outbreaks, sparking concern among citizens about a return to the country’s economically-cri...

Nearly 37 million people in China may have been infected with Covid-19 on a single day this week, according to estimates from the government’s top health authority, making the country’s outbreak by...

The China reopening trade for commodities is showing signs of flagging, as weak demand offsets speculative bets that the end of Covid Zero will reignite growth.

Last year the property developer offered deep discounts to keep sales growing and the Chinese government effectively said it had borrowed too much, yet its auditor gave it a clean bill of health.

Shehzad Qazi of China Beige Book International says every sector in the country is "pulling back" on hiring.