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    • Friday, 24 September, 2021
      News in-depthPersonal Finance
      Is it time to avoid investing in China?

      While economic growth remains strong, Beijing’s crackdown on private business bodes ill for portfolio investors

    • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
      Markets InsightUS-China relations
      Markets haven’t even begun to reflect China-US decoupling risks

      Sell-off in Didi shares is a clear warning of the dichotomy faced by investors

    • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
      Chinese business & finance
      Profit or principle is the hard choice for foreign companies in China

      Beijing is applying pressure but corporate governance demands are rising at home

    • Thursday, 9 July, 2020
      Chinese politics & policy
      China’s threats to the UK risk being more than ‘loud thunder, little rain’

      Britain has to reboot its relationship with a country that is a commercial partner, rival, and political adversary

    • Thursday, 14 May, 2020
      News in-depthFT Alphaville
      From peak China to China pique

      China’s economy was already facing headwinds before the Covid-19 pandemic broke out. The crisis now turns it into an unpredictable and volatile power, says George Magnus.

    • Friday, 10 April, 2020
      Coronavirus pandemic
      China should not count its successes too soon   

      The economy may no longer be in freefall but it faces a demand shock as well as other headwinds 

    • Thursday, 2 January, 2020
      Chinese economy
      Beijing’s delicate balancing act relies on job creation

      For Chinese economic policymakers employment is top of the worry list

    • Monday, 23 September, 2019
      Chinese politics & policy
      Shadows loom over China’s 70th birthday celebrations

      Trade tensions, Hong Kong and economic slowdown pose threats to the Communist party

    • Friday, 7 June, 2019
      US-China trade dispute
      China and the US are too intertwined to keep up the trade war

      Both sides should step back and seek sectoral and industry specific deals

    • Sunday, 6 January, 2019
      Chinese trade
      The rhetoric is changing but Xi Jinping is staying the course

      The president cannot risk caving in to anything that threatens China’s core interests

    • Wednesday, 12 December, 2018
      Markets InsightRenminbi
      Renminbi will not be able to escape a Chinese slowdown

      Currency will be under pressure no matter how the US-China trade battle unfolds

    • Thursday, 27 September, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Can China ever reconcile the market economy with a one-party state?

      Two new books do an admirable job of judging the communist superpower on its own terms

    • Tuesday, 19 June, 2018
      US trade
      Donald Trump has a point about China’s technology abuses

      But a further round of tariffs on goods is contentious and damaging

    • Monday, 4 June, 2018
      Markets InsightGlobal Economy
      US Treasuries unlikely to remain below 3% for long

      Peak in bond yields coincides mostly with that in the Federal Funds rate

    • Wednesday, 24 January, 2018
      Markets InsightChinese politics & policy
      China’s date with real financial deleveraging will have to wait

      The state is conflicted as regulator, owner and participant in the finance sector

    • Monday, 20 November, 2017
      Markets InsightChinese capital controls
      Xi’s China will only showcase illiberalism and dogma

      No real deleveraging and 2018 will probably see more monetary easing to assuage markets

    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2017
      Chinese politics & policy
      Xi Jinping consolidates his power in China

      As the Chinese leader tightens his grip, serious economic questions remain

    • Monday, 16 October, 2017
      Asia-Pacific equities
      China’s party congress will matter for investors this time

      Xi is turning his focus to the economy just as the $10tn equity market enters the MSCI

    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2017
      Markets InsightCurrencies
      China reform plans could be stifled as economy cools

      The risk of a financial system funding shock will be more advanced if policy eased

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2017
      Chinese politics & policy
      China’s financial clampdown will continue — for now

      The authorities reckoned that doing nothing was worse than trying to restore order

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2017
      FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane
      Snap AV: IF China’s credit rating downgrade mattered
    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2016
      Markets InsightMarkets
      Prepare to be surprised by the Fed in 2017

      President-elect’s pledge to reignite US growth presents tricky challenge for central bank

    • Monday, 26 September, 2016
      FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane
      Further reading
    • Sunday, 4 September, 2016
      Brazilian economy
      Temer, Rousseff’s successor, needs luck and judgment

      The president has a chance to stabilise Brazil and begin painful reforms, writes George Magnus

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2016
      FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane
      Further reading
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