Category: Chinese economy

China’s March CPI, PPI Falls

China’s consumer price index (CPI) and producer price index (PPI) data for March both fell short of expectations year-on-year. The communist regime’s economic development model is in a vicious cycle of balance-sheet recession, says an economist, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. China’s economic winter will worsen, he predicts. China’s CPI rose…


No Money, No Nukes: Time to Bankrupt China’s Regime

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary “We are probably not going to be able to do anything to stop, slow down, disrupt, interdict, or destroy the Chinese nuclear development program that they have projected out over the next 10 to 20 years,” said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley on March 29 at…


Stifled by Politics, Beijing and Shanghai Fall in Rankings of International Financial Centers

Shanghai and Beijing have both fallen sharply in the latest ranking of the world’s most competitive financial centers. The dynamism of China’s financial sector has waned markedly in part due to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s recent policies, and the trend is intensifying. With the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, CCP authorities implemented…


When the CCP Opens Its Economy, It’s Never Out of Friendliness

Commentary The prospect of a return to the previous era of trade between Australia and China has been the subject of considerable speculation in recent weeks following meetings between officials from both nations. The prospective thaw in relations saw corporate executives, including university vice-chancellors, flocking back to China with excited alacrity, eager to recreate the…


China’s Exports Will Show Negative Growth This Year: Chinese State-Owned Think Tank

China’s export growth is expected to turn negative in 2023, a prominent Chinese research institute says in a recent report. Meanwhile, Beijing admitted export trade represents “irreplaceable strategic significance” to the country’s economic stability and employment rate. In the past two years, China’s total imports and exports accounted for more than 20 to 30 percent of…


Companies Continue to Exit China Despite CCP’s Overture of Strengthening Economy: Observers

China’s ruling communist party has started announcing its plans to stimulate the domestic economy after the week-long Chinese Lunar New Year celebration. However, experts are not optimistic about China’s economic prospects and anticipate another wave of company exits. According to mainland Chinese media, after the Lunar New Year Holiday authorities in many provinces and cities…


Crazy Optimism About China’s Economy

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary China’s propagandists tell us the Chinese economy this year will “accelerate to 4.8 percent.” Foreign analysts are even more bullish. Goldman Sachs estimates growth of gross domestic product (GDP) of 5.5 percent. China’s National Health Commission announced the end of the Communist Party’s “dynamic zero-COVID” policy on Dec. 7. It did not take…


China Can No Longer Economically Surpass the United States: Experts

News Analysis China, the world’s most populous country, has reached a turning point in history as it recently announced its first population decline in 60 years. China analysts predict severe problems for the world’s second-largest economy owing in part to its shrinking population. According to Beijing critics, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has spent decades…


Taiwan’s Exports Down for Three Consecutive Months Amid Weakening Chinese Economy

Impacted by China’s weakening economy and falling demand from end-users, Taiwan’s Department of Statistics said that the country’s export orders plunged by 23.4 percent in November compared to the same month last year. The drop marked the third consecutive monthly year-on-year decline and the sharpest fall since March 2009. Experts said it is almost a foregone…


Declining US Retail Sales Weakens Chinese Export Growth

U.S. retail and food service sales fell 0.6 percent in November (pdf), twice the expected decline and the biggest monthly drop this year. As the largest importer of Chinese goods, lower consumption in the United States directly affects China’s exports. China’s cumulative export growth in the first 11 months this year is about 30 percent…