Falling prices are a problem across the world’s second-largest economy, leaving consumers uncertain about the future and hunting for value.

Chinas Consumer Price Index (CPI) in August 2025 showed a sharp 0.4% year-on-year decrease, which was worse than Julys zero growth and more than the anticipated -0.2% fall. This was the fifth month of ...

Key Points and Summary – China’s leadership, including Xi Jinping, is now openly admitting to a crisis of industrial “overcapacity,” a problem they have termed “involution.” -This ...

UK’s Peter Kyle in Beijing for first UK-China trade talks since 2018, pursuing £1 billion deal on cars, livestock, and ...

Amid tight restrictions on self-expression and political freedom, innovative and audacious protests appear inevitable.

Beijing has run out of patience with companies slashing prices, and is urging restraint. But fierce competition is also ...

The Chinese government is taking steps to rein in what it calls “involution,” or excessive competition that is hurting local companies and fueling the country’s deflationary spiral.

Beijing has stopped publishing hundreds of statistics related to real estate, finance, unemployment and even soy sauce production, making it harder to know what’s going on in the country.

Trump has been remarkably consistent over the years about his core economic gripe: the trade deficit. In 1987, he spent nearly $100,000 to purchase a full-page ad in three U.S. newspapers that said: ...

This essay is an adaptation from Wang’s forthcoming book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future, which is available August 26, 2025. In cutting off rare-earth magnets, officials in Beijing ...