On Our Radar | Are the gloves coming off?

To read this roundup as a PDF, click here. Introduction For the past couple of years Beijing’s spending ambitions – from expanding social security to implementing more expansionary fiscal policy – have been constrained by lousy tax revenue growth. Revenue… Read More »

When most people think of China's export controls, they think of dual-use controls – the dramatic, headline-grabbing restrictions on critical mineral products like gallium, graphite, and most famously, rare earths. Beijing has famously deployed these levers as retaliatory weapons in… Read More »

Beijing has a new economic priority – and it's one that will reshape China's growth model for decades to come. Policymakers are increasingly convinced that the next phase of China's development requires a dramatic expansion of producer services – that… Read More »