If the iron ore price is a barometer of the health of China’s economy,then it is signalling a level of weakness that ought to galvanise China’s policymakers.
When China’s foreign minister Qin Gang mysteriously disappeared from public view his fate became the subject of intense speculation and wild rumours. None was true.
China’s economic problems are spiralling as its citizens tighten their belts and investors pull billions of dollars out of the country.
China’s economic mess is weighing heavily on Australia and the rest of the world. Added to Beijing’s concerns is the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House.
Beijing is panicking and making some increasingly unusual moves as it struggles to avoid a major financial crisis.
Colin Huang’s reign as China’s richest person only lasted about two weeks.
President Xi Jinping’s push to end reliance on property-led growth has profound implications for the steel industry and is sending out global shockwaves.
Chinese companies continue to churn out more products than the world may need. Even Xi Jinping may be powerless to slow them down.
China’s deflating property bubble and declining birth rate are,at last,grabbing the attention of Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
In a quirky viral trend,young Chinese people are flocking online to impersonate birds and escape an uncertain future. One problem is that they can’t actually fly.
Besieged by a price war in China’s bottled water market,Zhong Shanshan’s company has found itself on the wrong side of the country’s increasingly nationalistic consumers.