Next, the editorials insist that China is profoundly resilient. They note risks, including American protectionism and weak consumer demand at home, but treat them almost as inconveniences. One editorial repeats Mr Xi’s line that “China is an ocean, not a pond”—big enough, that is, to weather any turbulence.

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Beijing’s new export controls on rare earths are designed to force the U.S. to drop its own restrictions on selling advanced computer chips to China, analysts say.

The International Monetary Fund said that recent trade deals have avoided the worst of Trump's threatened tariffs, but warned that a renewed U.S.-China trade war could slow output significantly.

With thousands of dedicated courts and more than a million recent cases, environmental and climate litigation is booming in China, but it often looks different to the trend seen elsewhere.Between 2019 and 2023,

Li Qiang says ‘broader perspective’ necessary to keep confidence high amid trade tensions with US, preparation for major political conclave.

Maybe it’s an electric vehicle with longer-range batteries, an updated artificial intelligence model, or a humanoid robot —but the message is the same every time: China is a tech juggernaut. Some credit China’s economic model.

“We should not miss the fundamental point on rare earths: China has crafted a policy that gives it the power to forbid any country on Earth from participating in the modern economy,” Dean Ball, who served as a senior advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy earlier this year, wrote on X on Saturday.

California gained the No. 5 global ranking in 2017 and then rose to No. 4 last year following a long-running dip in the Japanese economy. This scorecard reflects both geographic economic progress and fluctuations in the U.S. currency. Japan’s jump is due, in part, to its strong yen performance against the dollar in 2025.

The latest trade tensions between the United States and China pose a downside risk for the global economy that is not reflected in the International Monetary Fund's latest outlook, chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said on Tuesday.