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Opinion | Global finance is quietly moving east

The opening of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Shanghai Centre on December 8 attracted limited attention outside specialist financial circles.…

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Developing | China’s growth engines sputter as retail and investment hit in November

China’s economic indicators logged a further slowdown in November, with consumption and investment showing renewed signs of strain, while the…

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China aims to boost imports and exports in 2026 to drive trade growth: senior official

With trade proving resilient despite global headwinds, China aims to expand both exports and imports next year, leveraging domestic demand…

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China’s 2025 growth forecast raised to 5% by IMF, citing resilience

China’s economy is projected to grow by 5 per cent in 2025 before slowing to 4.5 per cent in 2026,…

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Macroscope | Why Asia’s old plan to dodge ‘middle-income trap’ won’t work any more

Is the famed Asian economic miracle that endured for decades from the 1950s onwards giving way to a “doom loop”…

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Opinion | China needs high-quality financial development to support its five-year goals

President Xi Jinping’s speech at the fourth plenum of the Communist Party’s Central Committee last month outlined the guidelines for…

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China’s vow to shield manufacturing aims to ward off industrial decline

Beijing has pledged to prevent industrial hollowing-out by safeguarding the share of manufacturing in its economy, noting that the trend…

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As China holds the line in ‘trade war 2.0’, its yuan follows suit

When US President Donald Trump fired the opening salvoes of his country’s trade war with China in his first term,…

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Macroscope | Rein in loan securitisation before another financial meltdown hits

The overture to the next debt markets crisis has already begun to play with the collapse of two companies, First…

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Opinion | Bad debt ‘cockroaches’ signal new threats to the global economy

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s remark that “when you see one cockroach, there are probably more” is a blunt reminder of…

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