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He Xiaobei: Beijing should put price rebound at the centre of monetary policy
PKU economist says monetary policy should target a rebound in prices, lower borrowing costs, and stop conflating price stability with financial…
8 hrs ago
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Yiyang Xu
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Yuxuan JIA
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Investing in people, in Rmb20 instalments
This year’s Two Sessions produced an unexpectedly lively discussion over one small number. China says it is now “investing in people”. Rural pensioners…
Published on Pekingnology
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Mar 23
How Sino-centrism and U.S.-centrism warp(ed?) Beijing’s foreign policy thinking (2008)
Two Chinese grand strategists cautioned the perils of seeing the world only through China’s (imagined) glory or America’s shadow, and advised that China…
Published on Pekingnology
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Mar 21
SHEIN Muzzles Chinese Media
After Xu Yangtian’s rare public appearance, the Singapore-headquarted multibillion dollar company's apparent response was not communication, but…
Published on Pekingnology
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Mar 18
Reading China through its most courageous reporting
The grassroots Journalists Home News Prize this year honoured work on domestic violence, Covid memory, thallium pollution, rural pensions, and the…
Mar 17
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Yuxuan JIA
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JINGYUAN JIANG
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Yu Yongding: There Is No “Consumption-Driven” Growth Model, and China’s Infrastructure Investment Is Far From Saturated
Senior economist warns that China's consumption is being misread, growth is being misdiagnosed, and fiscal caution is holding back the economy.
Mar 16
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Yuxuan JIA
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Zhu Yutao
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What China’s tech giants wanted buried in 2025
An archive of removed and revised articles from top Chinese business outlets suggests where China’s largest tech groups were most sensitive: management…
Mar 15
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JINGYUAN JIANG
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Yuxuan JIA
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Offline Post–Two Sessions Policy Seminar on March 17 noon
Physical event in Beijing - Paid registration required.
Mar 10
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Yuxuan JIA
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Miao Yanliang: from Spanish silver to SWIFT, the forces that make currencies rule
CICC chief strategist & former SAFE chief economist argues economic scale, financial depth, institutions, technology, and network effects—with war as…
Mar 9
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Zhu Yutao
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Yuxuan JIA
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Chinese countryside’s quieter strains
A Hunan homecoming finds shrinking work, falling wages, and skewed sex ratios—which fuels brokered marriages to Vietnamese women and a rise in…
Mar 7
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Yuxuan JIA
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China gives no sign it will delay Trump's visit
Chinese officials sidestep questions about Iran when pressed on the first U.S. presidential trip to China in nine years.
Mar 5
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Zichen Wang
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Zhou Yongmei: Containing violent conflict is the foremost priority of state governance
Peking University scholar and longtime World Bank official argues that in ethnically diverse states, identity building and power sharing are the…
Mar 4
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Zhu Yutao
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Yuxuan JIA
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