Does seem plausible increasing labor unrest in China due to the continued housing slump would have fed into the recent economic policy shift clb.org.hk/en/content/c...
I have a new piece in Dissent, asking whether we can separate industrial policy from militarism, nationalism and the US-China rivalry. My answer: economically, you can certainly have one without the other; politically, I hope so but am less sure. jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
Hard to believe ten years have passed since Ilham Tohti's sentencing sg.news.yahoo.com/china-uighur...
A prominent Chinese scholar from the mostly-Muslim Uighur ethnic group was jailed for life because of remarks he made in a university class about the restive Xinjiang region, state-media reported Thur...
There's a widespread perception that the structure of China's economy has shifted significantly toward investment and exports since the pandemic. But that's not really borne out by the official data.
Our data on China’s solar PV export suggests that new markets such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are seeing unprecedented growth in solar. In the first seven months of 2024, Pakistan imported 12.5 GW of panels, while Saudi Arabia imported 9.7 GW.
"China’s centrality to global oil demand growth this century has been so great that the precipitous slowdown in growth this year raises significant questions about the future global trajectory" www.iea.org/commentaries...
China’s slowdown is weighing on the outlook for global oil demand growth - A commentary by Ciarán Healy, Alexander Bressers
Between 2019 and 2024, China is set to add as much production capacity for ethylene and propylene – the two most important petrochemical building blocks – as presently exists in Europe, Japan and Korea combined www.iea.org/commentaries...
China’s petrochemical surge is driving global oil demand growth - A commentary by Ciarán Healy
"We are thus facing a strange situation where the main architects and the founders of the neoliberal international order no longer believe in it and do not apply it, but somehow the system should be still apparently adhered to by the rest of the world" branko2f7.substack.com/p/the-third-...
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
