EXPLAINED. China’s debt problem. China’s debt has risen dramatically in the past decade, largely the result of credit fed to ...

Signs of life are returning to the Shanghai free-trade zone’s (FTZ) bond market, which went quiet in late 2023 after Chinese authorities clamped down on excessive borrowing by local governments.

Chinese retail investors had flooded into local stocks amid a rally in AI-related shares — and were partly flushed out as gains reversed last month. The margin trading balance dropped to 2.6 trillion ...

Laos, the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia, began to share the "Chinese Dream" in the mid-2010s. The vision was to ...

Beijing's ⁠drive to ​eliminate $10 trln of ​hidden borrowings ends a fiscal model that ​powered decades ​of urbanisation. As land ‌sales ⁠dry up, provinces and cities are cutting ​spending ​and ...

June 29 (Asia Today) --China's combined government, corporate and household debt has risen above 300% of gross domestic product, while the prolonged property downturn and increasing household defaults ...

Chinese provinces are nearing a milestone in Beijing’s plan to refinance their crushing debts, allowing local officials to refocus efforts on raising funds for infrastructure projects despite limited ...

(Bloomberg) -- Chinese companies’ foreign-currency debt load has shrunk significantly, reducing a key source of vulnerability as the yuan faces growing uncertainties under Donald Trump’s second ...

August 11, 2026: Between April and June, the Chinese economy expanded more slowly than it had since 2022. The cause of this was declining household consumption, which blurred manufacturing efforts ...

Subsidized Chinese imports are threatening African manufacturing growth, prompting calls for the United States to support the ...