China’s middle class foundations are facing the same pressures America’s did in the second half of the twentieth century.

With an aging population and the prospect of an indefinite period of sluggish growth, China’s pension problems won’t go away on their own.

Beijing’s efforts to keep manufacturing competitive and support consumption have been working at cross purposes to each other.

There’s a political demand for economic expansion that China’s current GDP growth simply won’t meet.

857 seconds, according to one reporter. That’s how long Chinese traders worked this morning before the markets were closed.

China is involving itself more deeply in the affairs of other countries, something it used to oppose. The Chinese envoy to Africa calls it a “new chapter” in the country’s foreign policy.