Xi visited North Korea this week. CPPCC Chairman Wang Huning leads an inspection tour of Xinjiang ahead of the July 1st implementation of the national ethnic unity law. The Pentagon alleges that Alibaba, Baidu and BYD are linked to the PLA.
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump visited China recently. Many other world leaders have visited Beijing in the past six months. Chinese media described the Chinese capital as an international "living room" that provides stability in a turbulent world. The recent influx of international leaders to China may be a reflection of growing uncertainty in the global order.
Amid the chaos and cruelty of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, China is enjoying a resurgence of interest online. Influencers are playingfully adopting traditional Chinese medicine-based wellness routines maintained by pensioners in Beijing and celebrating the Blade Runner aesthetic of Chongqing.
The Global Prosperity Summit 2026 was held in Hong Kong last month. It was co-organised by the Savantas Policy Institute, the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and the European Chamber of Commerce. It showcased high-stakes international dialogue over two days on the city’s potential across several fast-evolving and globally significant industries.
China's manufacturers have become formidable global competitors. They have outflanked Germany's carmakers, stolen a march on South Korean shipbuilders and narrowed the gap with American chip designers. World leaders are scrambling to limit the threat to domestic industries and avoid risky dependencies. EU ministers will meet to consider more forceful countermeasures.
Heckman has devoted his professional life to understanding the origins of major social and economic questions related to inequality, social mobility, discrimination and the formation of skills and regulation in labour markets. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2000 for developing methods to solve statistical sample-selection problems. The world's economic outlook isn't good right now because of the fighting in the Middle East and the rise in oil prices.
Beijing's commerce vice-minister, Ling Ji, was set to meet with new EU trade director Ditte Juul Jorgensen in Brussels and have talks with Chinese businesses in the Belgian capital before heading to forums in Berlin and Dusseldorf. EU diplomats began preparations for next week's blockbuster summit, where the 27 members will decide on the future direction of the European Union's China policy.
Donald Trump has raised tariffs against imports from everywhere. Since last year, countries have rushed to build new relationships in the hope of circumventing the US to protect the global trading system. Global trade will be shaped by an emerging new imperative to stop China’s export juggernaut and end its lock on the supply of strategic inputs. The war will come at a cost to economic wellbeing as prices of consumer goods will rise and manufacturers will have to cope with pricier Chinese inputs.
The European Commission has declared its trade and economic relationship with China ‘unsustainable’ because of Chinese overcapacity. The EU's economic decay over the last two decades has been three times faster than that of the late Qing dynasty. EU is home to 450 million people, accounting for 5.5% of the global population, but its manufacturing output commands about 16%. China has a population of 1.4 billion people, represents 17%. China commands nearly 30% of global manufacturing.