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In China, the Police Came for the Consultants. Now the C.E.O.s Are Alarmed.

  
NYTimes.com - 05.16.2023 Original article ›
Daisuke Wakabayashi, Ana Swanson, Lauren Hirsch
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NYT reporters show China is continuing to crack down on what it sees as companies that break the law. This adds to risks of companies operating in China leading to companies not adding to investments in China and looking at options of manufacturing or doing business in other friendly locations such as India and Vietnam for manufacturing. New deals are also being done with South Korea, Japan instead of China as China's surveillance of business grows and risks increase of operating in China.

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Opinion | China and America Are Heading Toward Divorce

  
NYTimes.com - 06.23.2020 Original article ›
Thomas L. Friedman
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Friedman in the NYT says China overreached especially since 2012 on trade, technology transfers, and in relations with American allies Australia, India, Japan, and America underperformed for its people by not investing in infrastructure, in workers incomes and in health and public services, education. Underinvestment in the very structure and backbone of American society while billions were wasted in foreign wars and in misallocation of investments by Silicon Valley and other investors. The coronavirus failure to get adequate warning through WHO and China's cooperation for American teams to be admitted immediately after January 10 request by the U.S. for Wuhan was a turning point.  

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How infrastructure financing disagreements are hindering closer China-Nepal ties | DW | 28.03.2022

  
DW.COM - 03.28.2022 Original article ›
Lekhanath Pandey (Kathmandu)
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This report in DW.com says there are differences between Nepal and China on financing for Belt and Road infrastructure projects. China prefers commercial loans, Nepal wants grant assistance and low interest loans. The Us has given Nepal $500 million grant assistance, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Nepal after the Nepalese parliament approved the US assistance.

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U.S. List of China Balloon Suppliers Hints at New Age in Surveillance

  
WSJ - 02.11.2023 Original article ›
James T. Areddy
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Six companies including Beiing Nanjiang Aerospace are among six nearspace aerospace companies connected with China's military that face restrictions on import of technology from the US. This is part of the American response to the Chinese spy balloons hovering over US airspace.

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Japan’s Next Leader to Be Thrust Into Clash Over China

  
WSJ - 09.14.2020 Original article ›
Peter Landers
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The balancing act for Japn's new prime minister Yoshihide Suga, Mr. Abe's cabinet secretary, as he tries to protect Japanese investment in China and maintain good relations with the U.S. The Trump administration is determined to restore America's manufacturing status as a manufacturing superpower and renew its supply chain after the pandemic, which is leading to a new relations with China.

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On Globalization, China and Trump Are Closer Than They Appear

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WSJ - 01.27.2017 Original article ›
Greg Ip

In China, Marriage Rates Are Down and ‘Bride Prices’ Are Up

  
NYTimes.com - 03.26.2023 Original article ›
Nicole Hong, Zixu Wang

Japan Woos Hong Kong Business as Abe Cools to China

  
WSJ - 06.18.2020 Original article ›
Peter Landers, Chieko Tsuneoka

China Coped With Trump’s First Trade War. A Second One Will Be Tougher.

  
WSJ - 11.15.2024 Original article ›
Jason Douglas
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China's share of US imports reached 10% in 2019. It collapsed during the pandemic after 2019. It then recovered in February-March 2021 to about 15%, and surged afterwards to 42%, and is down close to 15% in November 2024. The incoming DJT administration is bringing back a focus on tariffs- a tariff as high as 60 percent is unlikely as American companies are likely to oppose this. A smaller tariff increase of 20-30% would bring the share of US imports from China back to less than 10% that existed in 2019. 

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Why China and Australia Are Reconciling. Sort of.

  
NYTimes.com - 11.04.2023 Original article ›
Damien Cave

WSJ News Exclusive | China and the U.S. Are Arranging an In-Person Meeting Between Heads of Defense

  
WSJ - 05.29.2022 Original article ›
Keith Zhai In Singapore, Alastair Gale In Tokyo
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China's Defense Minister Gen. Wei and Mr. Austin, US Defense Secretary are to meet on the sidelines of a conference in Singapore in 2022. Mr. Wei last met Defense Secretary Mark Esper in 2019 in Bagkok. No meetings have taken place since then. Gen. Wei is seen as an outspoken leader who told a conference in 2019 that the use of the military to stop the Tiananmen protests in Beijing in 1989 was the right step as this gave Chine three decades of peaceful development.

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China Is a Nation of Savers. Many Are Drowning in Debt.

  
NYTimes.com - 08.06.2025 Original article ›
Li Yuan
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As young people borrow more and take on debt and as more money goes into savings after housing price collapse, a new crisis of personal debt is taking place in a country known for the propensity to save.

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How U.S. and China Are Breaking Up, in Charts

  
WSJ - 08.12.2023 Original article ›
Anthony De Barros, Yuka Hayashi

China Reopened to Foreign Students. Americans Are Staying Away.

  
WSJ - 07.04.2024 Original article ›
Jazper Lu
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US students in China in educational exchange were 11,000 before the pandemic. Today this has dropped to 1000 which is not good for the cultural and educational interaction that promotes understanding between the two large countries.

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Taiwanese FM on China: 'After Hong Kong, Taiwan might be next' - The Interview

  
France 24 - 09.19.2020 Original article ›
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In this interview with France24 Foreign Minister Joseph Wu of Taiwan says his country is a front line democracy fighting an authoritarian regime. He warned that after Hong Kong "Taiwan might be next." He also said the mood of the European Union was changing and perceptions had changed after observing the situation in Hong Kong, the escalation at the India-China border, and in the South China Sea. He sees the threat of military intervention against Taiwan as having "intensified."

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Are Apple and China Breaking Up? - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts

  
WSJ - 12.15.2022 Original article ›

Apple’s Best Bet Against China Might Be India

  
WSJ - 12.27.2022 Original article ›
Megha Mandavia

Modi Embraces Abe; Still Holds China Close

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Wall Street Journal - 09.10.2014 Original article ›
Andrew Browne, Andrew, Browne
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Prime minister Modi of India's visit to Japan in September 2014 leads to a commitment of about $35 billion in Japanese investment over 5 years. Japanese companies such as Suzuki, Toyota and Toshiba already have large investments in India.
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Semiconductor Subsidies, Tariffs Are the Price of Reducing Dependence on China

  
WSJ - 07.27.2022 Original article ›
Greg Ip

Factories Shut, China Workers Are Suffering

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New York Times - 11.14.2008 Original article ›
Edward Wong, Edward, Wong
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67,000 factories closed down in China in the first half of this year. Things got a lot worse in the importing countries of the US and western Europe after October 2008 so the closedowns will have accelerated. This will have asignificant impact on the export sector and foreign investment that has propelled the economy so far. It will also create unemployment, and if back wages are not paid local governments may have to step in or there will be unrest among the laid off workers. Much of the rural migrant workers who came to the coastal provinces might now have to go back to their villages in fact reversing some of the urbanization tht has happened.
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The New Plan for Western Companies Is ABC: ‘Anything But China’ 

  
WSJ - 02.21.2025 Original article ›
Liza Lin
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How quickly the wind's direction has changed. For decades since 2000 American companies moved operations to China for manufacturing upto a point where there was over concentration and risks in the supply chain seen during the pandemic and as US- China relations diverged on issues such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Ukraine. This report looks at the US companies shift to looking for ways to shift operations to India, Vietnam and other locations.

In an annual survey 30% of American Chamber of Commerce in China companies out of 360 respondents are shifting their operations for manufacturing to other countries from China. About 25% of tech and R&D companies said they had already begun moving their supply chains out of China.

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China Has 487 Electric-Car Makers, and Local Governments Are Clamoring for More

  
WSJ - 07.19.2018 Original article ›
Trefor Moss
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President Xi Jinping's Made in China 2025 plan has spurred startups in electric car technologies, and raises concern about overcapacity. Electric cars is one of 10 sectors in the Made in China 2025 plan to promote global competitiveness for Chinese companies and domestic dominance. China Construction Bank and National Development and Reform Commission announced a $47 billion plan. Direct government subsidies of $15 billion over last 5 years have also increased the number of startups.

All automakers in China are required to produce electric cars. The electric cars sold in China at 777,000 make up half of the electric cars sold in the world. 

Local governments in places such as Anhui province have invested in electric car companies. One such company Singulato in Tongling, Anhui, is profiled here, with its first electric car expected by the end of the year priced at $43,000.

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COVID: Why are rapid tests banned in China? | DW | 14.02.2022

  
DW.COM - 02.14.2022 Original article ›
William Yang (Taipei)

The low-desire life: why people in China are rejecting high-pressure jobs in favour of ‘lying flat’

  
The Guardian - 06.15.2023 Original article ›
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As China shifts from an economy that was built on low cost manufacturing in factories that polluted the skies and water, to an advanced economy with modern factories the nature of industry has changed. More recently the focus is on advanced technologies and increased productivity. As a result the hours worked are declining every year with modernization following the trend in western countries. There is also high unemployment of about 20% for young people. High university enrollment of about 60% means many graduates will have a hard time finding jobs in a slowing economy in 2023. With it comes a shift in attitudes to work.

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Will EU companies be rethinking their China strategies? | DW | 08.06.2022

  
DW.COM - 06.08.2022 Original article ›
Jo Harper

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