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12 articles matching the search query.
Chinese auto firms follow Tesla to Mexico, and from there to the U.S.
Auto and auto parts makers setting up nearer Elon Musk’s main EV market — North America — must navigate challenges to avoid U.S. barriers.
Can Beijing influence Taiwan’s presidential election through economic coercion?
China is using an old playbook as it imposes restrictions on imports from Taiwan in hopes of pushing voters to support the KMT in the island’s upcoming election. But Beijing may be in for a rude awakening.
Australia and New Zealand hint at stronger economic ties with China
China is the largest trading partner to Australia and New Zealand. And that’s clearly top of mind for the leaders of both countries, despite pressure from their Western security allies to get tough on Beijing.
A Chinese electric vehicle is coming to a market near you
In 2022, China became the world’s second-largest auto exporter, and it’s now breathing down the neck of frontrunner Japan. China’s rising auto and electric vehicle brands are now on the verge of flooding into foreign markets, but it’s not going to be easy for them to succeed.
Can consumption vouchers rescue China’s economy?
A new batch of vouchers to stimulate consumption is being issued across China. As the country emerges from COVID zero, and with exports, investment, and consumption all down, can the program get China’s economy out of the doldrums?
EU officials find cracks in Beijing’s support for Putin, while Germany’s Scholz plans trip to China | Live with Lizzi Lee
Noah Barkin, managing editor at the Rhodium Group, discusses Olaf Scholz’s planned trip to China in November, and murmurs among EU officials that Beijing has shifted its tone on Russia.
Chinese heating appliances are keeping Europe warm this winter
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to high gas and electricity prices across Europe, where people are buying large numbers of low-cost Chinese electric blankets, heaters, heat pumps, and other products to battle the coming cold.
Editor’s note for Friday, January 14, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: A COVID shakedown in Henan; Chinese parents find workarounds for restrictions on tutoring; China’s impending Golden Tax IV system is causing anxiety in the business community; Evergrande’s domestic bondholders agree to a six-month reprieve; Chinese exports continue to boom; America and China are one military accident away from disaster.
Chinese economic growth has ‘likely recovered’ to near pre-coronavirus levels
China’s imports and exports both surged in September compared with a year before, indicating a continued strong recovery for the Chinese market. Economists surveyed expect Q3 growth to top 5%, nearing 2019 levels.
Opinion: What China’s ‘export machine’ can teach Trump about globalization
“The impact of Chinese companies investing abroad looks likely to be as big, or bigger, than that of its exports,” writes Penelope B. Prime. “If the next administration carries out its campaign promises, then the U.S. may miss out on many of the benefits of foreign investment altogether from China and elsewhere, such as revitalized towns with new jobs and tax-paying businesses.”
A trade war against China might be a fight Trump couldn’t win
Trump starts with little multilateral negotiating power and has given “a big push forward” to “China’s alternative system of rules,” writes The New York Times, as “many countries in the developing world still believe prosperity depends on their successful integration into the supply chains that traverse the global economy” — and the new American administration has already rejected that belief.
Voters take note: China’s trade surplus with U.S. is shrinking
Chinese exports have fallen for the seventh month in a row, and its year-to-date trade surplus with the U.S. has fallen by nearly 5 percent. Experts emphasize that overall economic balances are more important than individual trading balances, and that nothing in the short term is likely to change the basic reality that “China is efficient at producing consumer goods and the U.S. is prosperous enough to buy them.”
