Alicia Garcia-Herrero, Asia-Pacific Chief Economist at Natixis, discusses China's K-shaped economic growth. She argues that the economic development divergence in China is not as bad as that of South ...

Investing.com --China's central bank is moving to tighten discipline across the nation's financial landscape, explicitly calling out "involution-style", or excessively distorted competition, as a ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. You know the China story. Population? Huge. Economy? Very huge. Trade surpluses? Really huge. Maybe too huge. Even ...

As the period covered by China’s next five-year plan begins, the official newspaper of the country’s ruling Communist Party urged local governments to curb the herd behaviour that could fuel ...

THE term “involution” or curling inward became a common slang in China in the 2020s, to reflect excessive competition in social and economic life, where students, workers and even business leaders ...

Demand for the nation’s sovereign bonds is also being supported by rich liquidity in China that’s aiding shorter-tenor debt China’s efforts to curb overcapacity in the new energy sector can act as a ...

The term “involution”内巻[nèi juǎn]) originally referred to social problems in China related to excessive competition (Note 1). Especially among the younger generations, it was at first used to ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a senior adjunct researcher at the Rand Corporation’s China Research Center and senior associate ...

Since the Communist Party of China Central Committee put forward the call to comprehensively pursue anti-involution, the market has largely interpreted it as a supply-side policy — essentially "supply ...

China is gripped by an insidious problem that is eroding its economy: It is trapped in a cycle of competition so fierce that it is destroying profits, driving a brutal rat race among workers and ...

While the West focuses on large language models, China's fierce internal competition and broader approach may define AI's next chapter. When DeepSeek released its open-source, low-cost generative AI ...