Chinese regulators are encouraging (and enabling) companies to buy back their own stock to stabilize the country’s volatile markets. But will it work?
Elon Musk used a mistranslated Confucian one-liner in an online spat with the former editor of the Global Times.
A note for Weekly newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
The world-renowned artist and best-selling author tells us about his first solo exhibition in Taiwan in 10 years.
Why did the concept of the gray rhino — a big, obvious threat some people nonetheless ignore or neglect — so capture the imagination of Chinese officials and journalists and businesspeople? I spoke to the inventor of the concept to find out.
Porta potties, blue fences, and angry old men: What does community lockdown in Beijing look like?
What does it mean when Xi Jinping tells China and the world that he is far more focused on security than on the struggling economy? Dexter Tiff Roberts, author of "The Myth of Chinese Capitalism," is not optimistic.
Business briefs from the Chinese media — Friday October 21
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