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China’s $217 billion attempt to stimulate a sluggish economy
China has announced spending that will make its budget deficit the largest in 30 years. It’s the biggest attempt yet to lift a weak growth rate that is threatening Xi Jinping’s long-term ambitions.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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China’s defence minister Li Shangfu ousted after missing for weeks
The latest victim of President Xi Jinping’s high-profile purges becomes the country’s shortest-serving defence minister.
- by Evelyn Yu and Yujing Liu
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Energy
China’s slowdown and the looming glut of fossil fuels
The International Energy Agency predicts peak demand for oil, gas and coal within this decade. It would be grim news for major fossil fuel exporters like Australia.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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China may meet its growth targets, thanks to last year’s misery
China’s economy is showing modest momentum, but the baggage it will carry into next year and beyond threatens to thwart its ambition of toppling the US as the world’s largest economy.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Trade wars
America takes dead aim at China’s plan for global AI domination
Xi Jinping’s plan for global mastery of artificial intelligence and supercomputing is about to collide with the hard reality of American power as the US escalates its semiconductor war against China.
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Another Chinese property giant is teetering on the brink
Country Garden, China’s largest property developer with four times as many projects under way as embattled Evergrande, faces its moment of reckoning this week.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
China bet it all on real estate. Now its economy is paying the price
Economists, investors and central banks around the world are warning of the risks to China’s financial stability, calling on Beijing to act to stabilise the housing crisis.
- by Alexandra Stevenson
Golden Week loses its shine as China’s economy wobbles
The start of October is usually a time of celebration, travel and spending money in China. But not this year.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Country Garden caves to debts as China’s real estate crisis worsens
The property developer, once China’s largest homebuilder, has warned investors it is likely to default with roughly $US187 billion ($291 billion) in liabilities.
- by Daisuke Wakabayashi
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Is the world’s most indebted property developer about to topple?
Foreign creditors warn that without debt restructuring China Evergrande could collapse, with dire consequences for other distressed companies in China’s property sector.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
China’s big threat: A car maker that loses $55,000 on each car
It nearly ran out of cash in 2020 and losses continue to pile up. But Nio is a shining example of why Chinese electric car companies are taking over.
- by Keith Bradsher