Trump announced a swathe of tarifs to fund income tax cuts and incentivise manufacturing reshoring. In the long run it may ...

Labour-intensive manufacturing is vanishing and millions of jobs could be lost, with repercussions for stability and growth ...

While China has made progress in increasing income levels ... Despite rising interest rates, strong wage growth and low unemployment sustained consumer confidence. From October to December 2024, the ...

Economists have offered their views on whether Trump's "Liberation Day" will spell triumph or disaster for the U.S. economy.

"We do not have the infrastructure to support the volume of tooling this country sends out," said Patrick Roussey of Mayer ...

It is with this rule in mind that political leaders, across continents, play this fool’s game over and over again. And this ...

Trump hinted that the US will impose a 25%+ tariff on pharmaceuticals after giving US companies time to build more ...

By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Beijing Buried in China’s latest government budget ... better medical benefits, more unemployment insurance or restaurant vouchers. But again and again ...

The annual gathering of the National People’s Congress, China’s parliament, is tightly choreographed, with all decisions made in advance ... high youth unemployment and sluggish consumer ...

China's declining birth rate has become a major ... forbade employees from demanding 'bride prices'—traditional payments made to a bride's family—which People's Daily, the Communist Party's ...

Xi had already been battling persistently low consumption, a property crisis and unemployment ... which passes decisions already made behind closed doors. China has the world's second-largest ...

As governments across China roll out new measures to boost ... The initiative targets groups with high unemployment rates, including recent university graduates, migrant workers and retired ...