New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) China’s restrained approach to uplift its slowing economy “reflects concerns over local government debt burdens and the decreasing effectiveness of large-scale stimulus measures,” a report has said.Hence, the report from Geopolitical Futures said expectations for China’s medium-term growth outlook have become more cautious, and with a rapid rebound seeming increasingly unlikely.China’s economy will remain difficult to keep in balance due to pressures from weak domest…
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The US pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector has become critically dependent on Chinese inputs, which makes it vulnerable to supply chain risks from a foreign country, a report has said.An article in The National Interest, a US-based online publication cites the example of Heparin, a blood thinner, on which US patients have to excessively depend on supplies from China.About 70 per cent of the US supply of the drug originates from the heartland of China. The two US-base…
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) China’s official headline growth figures are fake and the country’s economy is headed for a major danger from its mounting bad debt and a rapidly ageing population, a new report has said.Japanese news site Nippon.com said in the report cited US think tank Rhodium Group estimates that true growth of the Chinese economy is closer to 2.5–3.0 per cent rather than the Chinese government’s real GDP growth figures for 2025 at 5 per cent.It also cited some China-watchers wh…
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) With deposing Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and taking over the country’s oil industry, the US is in the position to derail China’s ambitions in the South American country in the near future, according to reports.Beijing’s foothold there is in doubt as the US asserts new power over Venezuela’s oil patch, reports Wall Street Journal.“Beijing’s production deals, oil rigs and debt-backed supply arrangements have long bought it enormous sway in Venezuela — all o…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The world is financially retrenching from China, with foreign direct investment (FDI) flows falling more precipitously than to the rest of emerging markets (EM), according to Robin J Brooks, Senior Fellow at the US-based nonprofit Brookings Institution.In an article on online publishing platform Substack, he writes that the “narrative that China is impervious to US tariffs is wrong”.“You just have to look at the massive scale of trade diversion that’s happening t…
Mumbai, Jan 16 (IANS) China’s real GDP growth in 2025 is expected to be at about 2.5-3 per cent, far below the government’s stated target of around 5 per cent, raising critical questions about the true health of the world’s second-largest economy, the reliability of official statistics, a report has said.The report from Mizzima News said that the gap is driven mainly by a sharp decline in fixed assets and property investment, persistent producer‑price deflation, and enduring weakness in …