Chinese economy

Mitt Romney has spent more time articulating a substantive outline for his China policy than his rivals. Economics is central, but he’ll need to offer more if he gets the Republican nod.

North Korea looms over ties between China and South Korea. Indeed, the future of the North Korean regime goes to the very heart of longstanding tensions.

China will likely manage a soft landing in 2012. But economic imbalances in the Year of the Dragon will challenge the Chinese Communist Party.

China’s rise will see the end of Western domination. But contrary to the suggestion of some alarmist commentators, this doesn’t mean the Western world is finished.

China’s economic growth has been meteoric. But a tough global environment in 2012 could herald several years of severe economic turbulence in China.

China may be loosening government restrictions on the property market too quickly. Structural issues remain.

The most important global trend is the emergence of a great people from millennia of despotic rule, says Gordon Chang. The Chinese people, in short, are the world’s unstoppable force.

China’s huge domestic market has long fueled dreams that once its consumers are unleashed, rising demand will help heal ailing Western economies. Don’t count on it.

Protests in China aren’t seen as an existential threat by leaders, but a policy issue. Still, citizens are likely to increasingly see them as the best way of ensuring things get done.

China’s drive to make 20 percent of housing affordable by 2015 is welcome. But it’s not without its critics.

China’s drive to make 20 percent of housing affordable by 2015 is welcome. But it’s not without its critics.

China’s rise is only the most remarkable of the many extraordinary stories of Asia’s emergence, says Jason Miks in the first in a special series of essays on the Asia-Pacific’s future.