As Xi Jinping and Donald Trump reaffirm personal diplomacy, a one-year extension of the US-China trade truce sets the stage for a high-stakes Beijing summit in...
After three years of ruinous discounting that cost China’s car industry an estimated $68 billion, Beijing has drawn a hard line—forcing carmakers to pay suppliers within...
In the gleaming shopping malls of Shanghai, a paradox unfolds. Luxury boutiques stand half-empty despite price cuts, while consumers—many nursing mortgages on properties worth less than...
Beneath Brazil’s red earth lies a geopolitical powder keg that few Americans are paying attention to. While Washington obsesses over microchip factories and supply chain resilience,...
The boardroom was tense. Executives at a major German automotive supplier faced an impossible choice: continue sourcing rare earth elements from China—the world’s dominant supplier—or risk...
BYD’s auditorium at Shenzhen headquarters that crystallizes the strategic pivot of the world’s largest electric vehicle maker: 1.3 million. This is BYD’s target for overseas sales in...
Ten days into her presidency, Zou Jiayi chose Hong Kong’s Asian Financial Forum as the venue for a message that was simultaneously reassuring and urgent. Speaking...
In the hushed private banking suites of Hong Kong and Singapore, a seismic shift is underway. Family patriarchs who built empires from rubble in the decades...
Just weeks into 2026, China’s economic data release has sent shockwaves through global financial markets and policy circles. Despite an escalating tariff war and predictions of...
Shanghai’s 2035 plan to become a global financial hub leverages AI, RMB internationalization, and national backing—but faces geopolitical, demographic, and institutional challenges. How China’s commercial capital...