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China's President Xi Jinping arrives for the opening ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 4 March 2024.

Why is Xi not fixing China's economy?

Explanations from insiders range from ignorance to ideology

Scott Kennedy 19 June 2024

The U.S. removed the currency manipulator label it imposed on China last summer, a sign of easing tensions between the economic powers

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In mid-November, the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff released a 74-page report arguing that China aims to fundamentally revise the world order in the service of its authoritarian goals and…

Odd Arne Westad 17 December 2020

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The novel coronavirus has brought the world economy to a grinding halt. Global growth is set to fall from 2.9 percent last year into deep negative territory in 2020—the only year besides 2009 that…

Benn Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca 01 May 2020

Don’t Count on China to Lift the Global Economy

As life grinds to a halt in much of the world because of the novel coronavirus, the country that until recently was the hardest hit by the deadly pandemic is slowly coming back to life. The number of…

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