After a year on the sidelines, Beijing this week took steps to get hundreds of billions of dollars into the hands of the country’s flailing real estate developers.
Category: China
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iPhone Factory Protest Challenges China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Rules
Protests are rising as China enacts more lockdowns and quarantines, with no end in sight. The defiance is a test of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian leadership.
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Outbreaks Test China’s Efforts to Limit the Cost of ‘Zero Covid’
China wants to fine-tune its stringent pandemic restrictions to reduce the disruption to daily life caused by lockdowns. But officials are still taking few chances.
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Chinese Government Steps In to Help Apple
The government has sought out military veterans and Communist Party members to try to help an Apple supplier address a labor shortage at a major factory.
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World of Warcraft and Other Blizzard Games to Be Pulled From China
Blizzard Entertainment is suspending most of its gaming services in China after failing to renew a licensing deal with NetEase, a Chinese gaming partner.
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U.S. and China Restart Climate Talks
Discussions about combating climate change between the world’s two largest economies — and two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases — had been frozen since August.
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Yellen Calls for ‘Stabilizing’ U.S. Relations With China Ahead of G20
The Treasury secretary said in an interview that the United States was not trying to “paralyze China’s economy and stop its development.”
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China Adjusts Some Pandemic Policies, While Sticking to ‘Zero Covid’
Investors cheered the changes, although officials emphasized that measures “must not be relaxed.”
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China’s Great ‘Zero-Covid’ Guessing Game
Companies, investors and global policymakers are trying to divine when the Chinese government will drop its strict restrictions. It comes down to one man: the country’s top leader, Xi Jinping.