Category: Chinese economy

Xi’s Control Is Preventing China From Overtaking the US

Commentary With Xi Jinping at the helm, it is unlikely China will recover economically or overtake the United States for several decades, if ever. From 1980 to 2019, China’s average GDP growth rate was 8 percent. In recent years, annual growth rates have been in decline. And this year, China is expected to post the…


Chinese Tech Giants Tencent and Alibaba Saw Profits Plunge in 2nd Quarter

News Analysis Declining revenues and mass layoffs at Tencent and Alibaba could mark the end of the “golden age” for China’s internet industry. The companies’ profits plunged in the second quarter of 2022, mainly caused by the decoupling of the U.S. and Chinese economies and by the market restrictions imposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)….


The Chinese Economy and Global Oil Prices

News Analysis The global oil price outlook depends on the Chinese economy, the Iran nuclear deal, and the war in Ukraine. On Aug. 15, world oil prices dropped due to speculation that decreased industrial output in China would reduce global demand. China’s economy has been trending downward most of this year, which is pressuring world oil…


How Americans Bankrolled the Chinese Regime’s War Against Us: Frank Gaffney

From Our Sponsor: Why Now Is the Time to Buy Gold & Silver with Goldco. Call 855-973-0470 for your FREE Wealth Protection Kit Today! The Chinese Communist Party has “killed at least 100 million human beings out of the womb and they claim they’ve killed 400 million still in the womb. This is unprecedented in…


PREMIERING NOW: How Americans Bankrolled the Chinese Regime’s War Against Us: Frank Gaffney

This episode will premiere on Thursday, Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m. ET. From Our Sponsor: Why Now Is the Time to Buy Gold & Silver with Goldco. Call 855-973-0470 for your FREE Wealth Protection Kit Today! The Chinese Communist Party has “killed at least 100 million human beings out of the womb and they claim…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: How Americans Bankrolled the Chinese Regime’s War Against Us: Frank Gaffney

This episode will premiere on Thursday, Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m. ET. From Our Sponsor: Why Now Is the Time to Buy Gold & Silver with Goldco. Call 855-973-0470 for your FREE Wealth Protection Kit Today! The Chinese Communist Party has “killed at least 100 million human beings out of the womb and they claim…


PREMIERING 7:30 PM ET: The China Model Delusion and the West’s Useful Idiots—Former Apple Daily Columnist Simon Lee

This episode will premiere on Thursday, August 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET.  “Jimmy [Lai] once told me, ‘The fight for freedom is a very lonely pursuit…You have to be prepared to be very lonely.’” Simon Lee was a successful businessman in Hong Kong and a columnist at Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily newspaper for over a…


$50 Billion: Wealthy Chinese Want to Leave China; More Banks Freeze Withdrawals in China

Wealthy Chinese are leaving China—or at least planning on leaving—as they cannot stand the draconian COVID measures. But will Chinese leader Xi Jinping allow it to happen if that means billions of dollars in cash go out of China amid the contractions and poor economy? Meanwhile, more banks in China suspend bank withdrawals using various…


Drastic Measures Reveal a Cratering Chinese Economy

China’s GDP likely shrank in the second quarter, contrary to official reports, as the country is seen making attempts on several fronts to desperately boost its ravaged economy. Beijing announced a 0.4 percent expansion in China’s GDP during the second quarter. It was the second weakest quarterly growth ever officially recorded. But private data paints…


China’s Stars Dim for Investors

Commentary By strangling the Chinese economy and crushing human rights, President Xi Jinping is rapidly turning China into a bad gamble for Western investors and multinational corporations. China’s dictator has run into increasing, if carefully expressed, criticism from top-profile figures within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—including Premier Li Keqiang—over Xi’s ideological struggle to promote state capitalism alongside his…