Owen is an undergraduate student in the Princeton University politics department.
China has published its latest list of price-controlled drugs that will be available cheaply at public hospitals. Pharma companies that make drugs on the list will make guaranteed profits, even if the cheaper prices mean margins are low.
China’s ecommerce market is complex, massive, and highly competitive. Its companies and their business models are completely different from those in other markets, and none of the big American and European players have any real presence. This is a guide to the major Chinese players and their offerings.
In an apparent attempt to avoid further scrutiny in the U.S., Zoom is essentially pulling out of China, and will only offer its services there in partnership with local Chinese companies.
Within days of U.S. Congress questioning American Big Tech companies in an antitrust probe, it looks like China may investigate its own tech giants for anticompetitive practices.
A series of gargantuan energy sector deals has created a new state-owned giant that will control most of the oil and gas pipelines in China.
A government meeting signals there will be no changes to China’s religious affairs policies.
Supreme leader Xi Jinping gave a speech in which he provided mixed messages, urging companies to be both more patriotic and more innovative, and promising “deep reform and opening up.”
Burger King, General Motors, and popular Chinese news and video app Qutoutiao were all criticized by state broadcaster CCTV’s annual consumer rights show, which often makes a dent in both foreign and domestic companies’ bottom lines.
China’s largest silicon chip maker, SMIC, is essential to China’s quest to become technologically independent from the U.S. It is set to raise an eye-popping sum of money with a new listing on Shanghai’s Star Market on July 16.
Apple’s most important supplier is investing big in India as the U.S.-China trade war stresses supply chains.