Xi Jinping was unanimously sworn into his third term as China’s president. Some are hoping that his second-in-command, the man in charge of leading the economy, might counterbalance some of Xi’s more extreme political tendencies.
Chinese leaders are proposing all sorts of strategies to bring Xi’s self-sufficiency drive to life, including a sweeping overhaul of key ministries.
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor at Cornell University, discusses how the Chinese Communist Party controls information by manipulating data, such as GDP statistics.
For the last four decades, the Chinese government has measured its performance almost religiously with one metric: GDP growth. But the GDP God is falling, and it’s not certain that the Deity of Security can replace it, argues Jeremy Wallace, author of the new book Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts.
The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party begins in Beijing on Sunday. If Xi Jinping is handed a report with some highlights on the state of China’s economy, here’s what he might read.
This was supposed to be China’s century, but the country may never surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest economy, argues veteran China business reporter Dexter Tiff Roberts in the latest installment of his weekly column for The China Project.
City and county governments in China are facing a real estate meltdown, prolonged COVID restrictions, debt, and economic uncertainty: Something has got to give.
Can China spend its way to new prosperity even as COVID lockdowns continue to drag down the economy?
China’s GDP numbers and other official stats are no longer completely made up, but just how reliable are they?
The State Council hosted a video conference with top government officials today, in hopes of drafting new measures to boost its struggling, COVID-hit economy.