Business and Finance

Burner Laptops and Smaller Profits: Firms Portray Their China Challenges

September 19, 2023 / Business and Finance, China

Business groups chronicle the difficult environment inside China for U.S. and European companies navigating confusing regulations and an intensified security focus. By Keith Bradsher and Alexandra Stevenson Keith Bradsher reported from Beijing and Alexandra Stevenson from Hong Kong. Sept. 19, 2023, 9:06 a.m. ET Sign up for Your Places: Global Update.   All the latest news for any part of the …

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No Job, No Marriage, No Kid: China’s Workers and the Curse of 35

June 28, 2023 / Business and Finance, China, Population Growth

It’s widely discussed in China: Employers don’t want you after 35. Some job listings say it plainly, leaving a generation of prime-age workers feeling defeated. By Li Yuan June 28, 2023Updated 4:21 a.m. ET “When Sean Liang turned 30, he started thinking of the Curse of 35 — the widespread belief in China that white-collar workers like …

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As Ties to China Turn Toxic, Even Chinese Companies Are Breaking Them

June 15, 2023 / Business and Finance, China, David Lindsay, Military Affairs and Espionage

Companies are moving headquarters and factories outside the country and cleaving off their Chinese businesses. It’s not clear the strategy will work. By Ana Swanson Reporting from Washington June 15, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ET “As it expanded internationally, Shein, the rapidly growing fast fashion app, progressively cut ties to its home country, China. It moved its headquarters to …

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Jiang Zemin, Leader Who Guided China Into Global Market, Dies at 96

November 30, 2022 / Business and Finance, China

Mr. Jiang, a wily and garrulous politician, presided over a decade of meteoric economic growth in the post-Tiananmen era. 6 comments By Chris Buckley and Michael Wines Nov. 30, 2022Updated 9:06 a.m. ET 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “Jiang Zemin, the Shanghai Communist kingpin who was handpicked to lead China after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and presided over a decade of meteoric …

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In Global Slowdown, China Holds Sway Over Countries’ Fates

October 6, 2022 / Business and Finance, China

The lender of choice for many nations over the past decade, Beijing now has the power to cut them off, lend more or forgive some of their debts. By Keith Bradsher Oct. 6, 2022Updated 7:57 a.m. ET “BEIJING — When Suriname couldn’t make its debt payments, a Chinese state bank seized the money from one of the …

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Sri Lanka Collapsed First, but It Won’t Be the Last

August 15, 2022 / Business and Finance, India and Sri Lanka

Aug. 15, 2022 By Indrajit Samarajiva Mr. Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer who publishes at his blog Indi.ca. “As a Sri Lankan, watching international news coverage of my country’s economic and political implosion is like showing up at your own funeral, with everybody speculating on how you died. The Western media accuse China of luring us into a …

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Red Flags for Forced Labor Found in China’s Car Battery Supply Chain

June 20, 2022 / Bullies and Scoundrels, Business and Finance, China, Climate Change Remediation

Ties to potentially coercive labor practices could prove a problem for an industry that is heavily dependent on China, once a new law barring Xinjiang products goes into effect. By Ana Swanson and Chris Buckley June 20, 2022Updated 8:11 a.m. ET “The photograph on the mining conglomerate’s social media account showed 70 ethnic Uyghur workers standing at attention under …

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Race to the Future: What to Know About the Frantic Quest for Cobalt

November 20, 2021 / Business and Finance, China, Climate Change Remediation, United States

A New York Times investigation examines the global demand for raw materials as the clean energy revolution takes off. This is what we found. By Eric Lipton, Dionne Searcey and Michael ForsytheNov. 20, 2021Updated 12:09 p.m. ET The clean energy revolution is replacing oil and gas with a new global force: the minerals and metals needed in electric car batteries, …

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He Warned Apple About the Risks in China. Then They Became Reality.

June 21, 2021 / Business and Finance, China, David Lindsay

By Jack Nicas June 17, 2021 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 Doug Guthrie spent 1994 riding a single-speed bicycle between factories in Shanghai for a dissertation on Chinese industry. Within years, he was one of America’s leading experts on China’s turn toward capitalism and was helping companies venture East. Two decades later, in 2014, Apple hired him to help navigate …

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Jack Ma Taunted China. Then Came His Fall.

May 3, 2021 / Business and Finance, China

April 28, 2021 By Eswar Prasad Mr. Prasad is a professor at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “Ant Group, China’s biggest fintech conglomerate, was preparing last November for its initial public offering. Analysts projected it would raise $34 billion, the largest sale of shares in history. The company, founded by Jack Ma, …

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