President Xi Jinping’s unbending approach to the pandemic has hurt businesses and strangled growth, squeezing the world’s second-largest economy.
Category: International Trade and World Market
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Chinese Unrest Over Lockdowns Upends Global Economic Outlook
The New York Times – Business:Growing protests in the world’s biggest manufacturing nation add a new element of uncertainty atop the Ukraine war, an energy crisis and inflation.
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Cardboard Has Taken Over Our Lives. Where Does It Come From?
The New York Times – Business:A journey to the corrugated core of the 21st-century economy.
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Gina Raimondo, a Rising Star in the Biden Administration, Faces a $100 Billion Test
The New York Times – Business:Gina Raimondo, the commerce secretary, has made a career of tackling increasingly larger challenges. Could the next one be too big?
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Foreign Trade Competition Has Hurt Black and Disadvantaged Workers Most, Report Says
The New York Times – Business:A government trade agency report suggested that the impact of trade policy differed for workers depending on their race and socioeconomic status.
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Japan’s Economy Shrinks, Weighed Down by a Weak Yen and Rising Inflation
The New York Times – Business:The economy contracted 1.2 percent as consumers and businesses were hit with rising import prices.
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Markets Edge Higher at End of a Strong Week
The New York Times – Business:Signs of China easing its pandemic restrictions appeared to bolster stocks, adding to investors’ bullishness about cooling inflation in the United States.