China

Why Beijing’s promise to boost domestic consumption has lost credibility

China Stephen S. Roach - June 26, 2026.

China’s efforts to rebalance its economy have been an abject failure. Nearly two decades after former Premier Wen Jiabao bemoaned the Chinese economy’s excessive dependence...

Xi's silence on nuclear arms is a gift to Kim Jong Un

China TA | AP Insight - June 9, 2026.

Chinese and North Korean state-run media this week devoted thousands of words to Xi Jinping 's summit with Kim Jong Un, but made no mention...

Xi travels to Pyongyang to cement North Korea in China's orbit

China TA | AP Insight - June 7, 2026.

China's Xi Jinping is traveling to North Korea for the first time in nearly seven years in a trip that offers North Korean leader Kim...

The new price of Chinese dominance

Economy Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - May 29, 2026.

In recent years, it has become almost routine to discuss "reducing dependence" on China. Most of these discussions have remained at the level of political...

Beijing's economic strategies are not working for China's young people

China Yi Fuxian - May 22, 2026.

For several years now, a significant share of young Chinese people, disillusioned with their economic prospects, have embraced “lying flat,” a principled rejection of careerist...

China no longer just exports goods – it exports factories

China Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - May 19, 2026.

By introducing the "de-risking" policy, the European Union openly acknowledged for the first time that dependence on Chinese production presents a strategic problem for the...

Beijing sets a price for European sanctions

EU Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - May 1, 2026.

When, on 24 April, China's Ministry of Commerce imposed export restrictions on seven European military-industrial companies for "arms sales to Taiwan", the reactions in Brussels...

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