02 Dec 2022
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It’s finally happened: As we wrote yesterday, China is moving away from its zero-COVID policy.
This happened quickly: Just three days ago Beijing signaled that it was going to ramp up efforts to enforce its recently “optimized” zero-COVID playbook.
So, what changed?
Top leadership ha...
April 26, 2024
Late last year, China's central bank (PBoC) made high-level changes to the way it framed monetary policy. However, it hasn't been clear how those changes would filter through into the central bank's policy on credit and interest rates – until… Read More »
April 24, 2024
On Monday, we told you that China has announced a new tariff of up to 43.5% on imports of American propionic acid. An astute subscriber asked us to dig deeper: Of the tens of thousands of different products China imports… Read More »
April 15, 2024
The most important upcoming developments for policy and politics in China over the next month key developments politics Xi Jinping symposium with provincial leaders (coming month) econ and finance Quarterly Politburo meeting on the economy (end-April) foreign affairs Xi Jinping’s… Read More »