Keep up with the latest news on Asia's biggest economy.Explore the China Focus hubA train that proclaims China’s global ambitionAs Beijing pushes westwards, the Atlantic century makes way for a new Eurasian ageThe logic behind China’s treatment of Liu XiaoboFor the regime, it was safer to turn him into a martyr than allow his ideas to spreadChina’s growth surprise is born of policy failure Premium contentEconomy is outperforming expectations because Beijing is underperforming on policy goalsChina’s railway diplomacy hits the buffersBeijing is ‘sharing’ its high-speed train technology worldwide, but are the schemes coming at too high a price?How to fix China’s financial systemAllocate capital to the more productive, employment-generating sectorsStrength of Chinese economy harks back to better timesData show makings of first annual pick-up in growth since 2010
A train that proclaims China’s global ambitionAs Beijing pushes westwards, the Atlantic century makes way for a new Eurasian ageThe logic behind China’s treatment of Liu XiaoboFor the regime, it was safer to turn him into a martyr than allow his ideas to spreadChina’s growth surprise is born of policy failure Premium contentEconomy is outperforming expectations because Beijing is underperforming on policy goalsChina’s railway diplomacy hits the buffersBeijing is ‘sharing’ its high-speed train technology worldwide, but are the schemes coming at too high a price?How to fix China’s financial systemAllocate capital to the more productive, employment-generating sectorsStrength of Chinese economy harks back to better timesData show makings of first annual pick-up in growth since 2010