7 Reasons Chinas Official Unemployment Rate Understates Joblessness
CommentaryThe Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims that China’s unemployment rate was only 5 percent in June, the most recent data available. While that...
Diminishing Returns on Infrastructure Investment: The End of Chinas Growth Miracle
Workers carrying out maintenance on electricity towers which carry the power supply for China's high speed trains after snowfalls in recent days near...
CCP Fuels Massacre of Christians in Nigeria
Security personnel patrol the streets amid a surge in violence in Mangu, Plateau State, Nigeria, on Jan. 24, 2024, in this screengrab obtained...
EV Adoption Risks a China-Controlled Battery Crisis
ADA global battery shock could be worse than the oil crisis.Workers at a factory that makes lithium batteries for electric cars and other...
The Petroyuan Myth: War Failed to Shake the Dollar
A Chinese bank employee counts 100-yuan notes and 100-U.S. dollar bills at a bank counter in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China, on Aug. 6,...
The Iran War and the Impact of Expensive Oil on Chinas Economy
ADA man works in a filling station of Sinopec, China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, in Shanghai, China, on March 22, 2018. Johannes Eisele/AFP...
Trump Admin Backs Kazakhstan Rare-Earth Deal to Break Chinas Grip
Thinking About ChinaOpinionThe United States moves to secure rare-earth supplies and cut China out of the supply chain.President Donald Trump announces the creation...
China Claims Currency Victory in Zambia, but Yuan Internationalization Remains a Myth
Zambia’s limited use of the yuan highlights the myth of de-dollarization.A Chinese bank employee counts 100-yuan notes and U.S. dollar bills at a...
