China’s Plan to Spur Growth: A New Slogan With Familiar Ideas
From the top of the government, China is heavily promoting a plan to fix the country’s stagnant economy and offset the harm from a decades-long housing bubble.
Li Qiang in asian news
China-Australia all set for a real diplomatic reboot
There is a prominent view in Australia that bilateral relations with China remain inherently “fragile.”
Bank of Japan rates pivot cause to cheer in China
TOKYO — Xi Jinping’s inner circle in Beijing is probably breathing a little easier as the Bank of Japan steps away from 23 years of quantitative easing (QE).
Xi Jinping: China’s president of precedents and new norms, but at what cost?
SINGAPORE: A signature event will be conspicuously missing when China’s most important annual political meetings come to a close on Monday (Mar 11) — Premier Li Qiang will not be speaking to the press.
Cause to cheer, cause to jeer China stock bounce
With a few benchmarks for Chinese stocks up 20% from January lows, a debate is raging between the bulls and bears.
China faces familiar growth dilemma as economy slows
BEIJING -- China's National People's Congress (NPC), the largely ceremonial parliament that meets every year in March to rubber-stamp decisions by the leadership, is seldom accompanied by a great deal of suspense. This year, for example, the biggest surprise was that the proceedings would be even more predictable than ever as the final news conference by Premier Li Qiang, one of the few unscripted parts of the entire affair, was canceled.
China National People's Congress leaves markets divided
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG -- Market reaction has been split on the National People's Congress that ended Monday, with the Shanghai Composite Index rising 1% during the meeting on the announcement of economic support measures even as Hong Kong's mostly foreigner-traded Hang Seng Index fell slightly.