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China · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
China's July activity data disappointed on every headline measure. Industrial value added grew 4.5 percent from a year earlier, down from 5.3…
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China · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
The China to Europe Arctic container express route entered regular weekly operation on Saturday 15 August, Xinhua reported. The vessel Dubai Tower,…
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China · Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
China's consumer prices rose zero point five percent year on year in July, against a market expectation of zero point eight percent,…
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China · Aug 9, 2026 · 5 min read
China's exports grew twenty three point nine percent year on year in July in dollar terms, ahead of the twenty two point…
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China · Aug 8, 2026 · 3 min read
China's official foreign exchange reserves stood at 3,418.8 billion dollars at the end of July 2026, up 2.5 billion dollars or 0.07…
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China · Aug 6, 2026 · 5 min read
China's Ministry of Commerce issued four measures on 5 August 2026, and the Certification and Accreditation Administration a fifth, in a single…
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China · Aug 2, 2026 · 3 min read
China's manufacturing purchasing managers' index fell to 49.2 in July from 50.3 in June, and the non-manufacturing index fell to 49.0 from…
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China · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
China left its benchmark lending rates unchanged for a fourteenth consecutive month in July, with the one-year loan prime rate held at…
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China · Jul 20, 2026 · 2 min read
China is exporting about 20 percent fewer rare-earth magnets to the United States despite a trade truce between the two countries, according…
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China · Jul 20, 2026 · 3 min read
The European Commission has fined AliExpress, the online marketplace owned by China's Alibaba Group, 550 million euros for breaching the European Union's…
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China · Jul 20, 2026 · 4 min read
The Chinese artificial-intelligence company DeepSeek is in early talks over a new funding round of up to 50 billion yuan, about 7.4…
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China · Jul 18, 2026 · 3 min read
The Edge for Economic Consultancy has published a special report, "The 725 Billion Dollar Question: Who Is Really Winning the Global AI…
Read more → China’s July activity data disappointed on every headline measure. Industrial value added grew 4.5 percent from a year earlier, down from 5.3 percent in June. Retail sales of consumer goods rose 0.6 percent, down from 1 percent. Fixed asset investment excluding rural households fell 6.7 percent across the first seven months, having fallen 5.7 percent…
The China to Europe Arctic container express route entered regular weekly operation on Saturday 15 August, Xinhua reported. The vessel Dubai Tower, operated by Zhejiang Seaport Logistics Group, sails from Ningbo-Zhoushan Port to Felixstowe, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Gdynia across the Northeast Arctic Passage, and the operator advertises a transit of approximately 20 days. What is…
China’s consumer prices rose zero point five percent year on year in July, against a market expectation of zero point eight percent, while producer prices rose three point five percent against a Reuters poll of three point eight percent, the National Bureau of Statistics said on 9 August. Both gauges came in below forecast. The…
China’s exports grew twenty three point nine percent year on year in July in dollar terms, ahead of the twenty two point two percent expected in a Reuters poll, while imports rose twenty seven point five percent against an expected twenty seven point nine, customs data released on 7 August showed. The trade surplus came…
China’s official foreign exchange reserves stood at 3,418.8 billion dollars at the end of July 2026, up 2.5 billion dollars or 0.07 percent on the month, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange reported on 7 August. The end-June figure was 3,416.3 billion dollars. The administration attributed the move to technical factors rather than flows, stating…
China’s Ministry of Commerce issued four measures on 5 August 2026, and the Certification and Accreditation Administration a fifth, in a single package the ministry presented as a response to United States actions. All five took effect the same day. Instrument Effect Announcement 2026 No 34 Case-by-case strict review of exports to the United States…
China’s manufacturing purchasing managers’ index fell to 49.2 in July from 50.3 in June, and the non-manufacturing index fell to 49.0 from 50.2, the National Bureau of Statistics reported on 31 July. The composite output index, which combines the two, stood at 49.3. It is the first month of the year in which both headline…
China left its benchmark lending rates unchanged for a fourteenth consecutive month in July, with the one-year loan prime rate held at 3.00 percent and the five-year rate, a reference for mortgages, kept at 3.50 percent. The rate, based on submissions from a panel of large Chinese banks and published each month through the People’s…
China is exporting about 20 percent fewer rare-earth magnets to the United States despite a trade truce between the two countries, according to Bloomberg. The shortfall underscores how Beijing retains leverage over the critical-minerals supply chains that underpin electric vehicles, defence equipment and a wide range of industrial and electronic goods, even as the two…
The European Commission has fined AliExpress, the online marketplace owned by China’s Alibaba Group, 550 million euros for breaching the European Union’s Digital Services Act, the largest penalty imposed under the bloc’s platform-safety regime to date, the Commission said on 20 July 2026. The regulator found that AliExpress had failed to diligently assess and mitigate…