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CHINESE ECONOMY

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 17, 2020
Street vendors won’t save China’s economy
A new push to welcome informal workers back onto the streets will create more problems than it solves.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 24, 2020
Good riddance to China's scrapped growth target
These figures had outlived their usefulness and only fueled cynicism about accuracy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2020
China's damaging policy disruptions
Like an overprotective parent, China's central government needs to learn to let go.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2019
What's in store for China's economy in 2020?
The year, and the decade, will be fraught with difficulties for the economic powerhouse.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2019
China's Industrial Policies Work. So Copy Them
China hawks are chastising U.S. President Donald Trump's "phase one" trade deal because it focuses on increasing U.S. exports while ignoring Beijing's subsidies for favored industries. Instead of seeking to coerce China into abandoning policies that both sides agree benefit its economy, the United States...
EDITORIALS
Jan 9, 2019
Chinese economy sets off alarms
Alarm bells in China should set off similar warnings in Asia and beyond.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Sep 10, 2018
China's trade outlook darkens as Trump raises stakes on tariffs
China's chances of escaping the trade conflict with the U.S. with only minor damage to its economy just got slimmer.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2018
China's HNA Group slims down after asset sales but debt concerns remain
Though HNA Group Co. has managed to reduce one of China's biggest debt piles by selling off dozens of assets, the embattled Chinese conglomerate will probably need to get much slimmer before regaining the trust of investors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2018
China prepared for long trade war with U.S.: state media
While the U.S. may be trying to resolve trade disputes quickly, China is prepared for a "protracted war" and doesn't fear sacrificing short-term economic interests, according to Chinese state media.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2018
Japan overtakes China to become world's second-biggest stock market
Japan retakes the No. 2 spot with a valuation of $6.17 trillion as China's stock market takes a beating from a slowing economy and the trade war with the U.S.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 8, 2018
China should do what Trump says on trade
Many of the reforms demanded by the U.S. would help the Chinese economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets / CURRENCY MARKET
Apr 13, 2018
Financial experts warn China not to repeat Japan's foreign exchange mistake of 1980s
China should learn from Japan in the 1980s, and never allow a trade war to become a currency war, says Sheng Songcheng, a senior adviser to the People's Bank of China (PBOC).
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 19, 2018
China selects new economic team as Xi kicks off second term
Liu He, a key economic adviser to China's President Xi Jinping, was elected by parliament Monday to be a vice premier, and vice central bank Gov. Yi Gang was chosen to take over the helm at the People's Bank of China.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2018
China turning into a scientific superpower
China is rapidly gaining in the global race for knowledge.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2017
China signals slower growth is acceptable to curb debt, poverty and smog
China can achieve a goal of doubling the size of its economy by 2020 even if annual expansion slows to 6.3 percent, according to a senior Communist Party official, signaling a greater willingness to tackle debt and pollution at the expense of growth.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2017
After bumper year this year, China's import growth seen tumbling in 2018
The pace of China's import growth is set to slow in 2018 following a boom this year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 4, 2017
Don't worry, China isn't taking over the world just yet
Some of China's greatest economic advances depend heavily on local conditions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 27, 2017
A clash brewing between the CCP and China's entrepreneurs?
China's rising private-sector corporate stars view Communist Party control as a recipe for economic disaster.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2017
China emerges as job market of choice for analysts fleeing EU's MiFID II
Karen Tan finished her master's degree in mathematics at the University of Cambridge three years ago and set her sights on a career in U.K. finance.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2017
China versus the Washington Consensus
China's continued economic success calls into question longstanding assumptions about the optimal balance of state and market mechanisms in driving economic development.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
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