71 new models of electric cars are going on sale this year in China nytimes.com/2024/05/01/bus…

“.. Fifteen years ago today, Keith Bradsher published this piece, featured in the upper-right corner of the printed edition of the The New York Times.”

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Faced with weak consumer spending at home, China is building more factories and pushing exports nytimes.com/2024/03/12/bus…

China now produces almost all of the world's solar products -- and is doubling down on solar at this week's gathering of China's legislature, even as the United States and Europe try to revitalize their industries. nytimes.com/2024/03/07/bus…

The victor in a corporate battle in China with Danone of France 15 years ago has now died. Here is an obituary w/Tiffany May nytimes.com/2024/02/25/bus…

Donkeys across Africa are being sent to slaughterhouses to make a gelatin for traditional Chinese medicine, leaving villages without animals for transport or agriculture. nytimes.com/2024/02/23/wor…

Here is the NYT obituary of Angela Chao, the youngest sister of Elaine Chao, written by Keith Bradsher and me. Angela Chao died on Sunday in Texas in a car accident. She was 50 years old. nytimes.com/2024/02/14/bus…

Worth reading: “The Republic of China: 1912 - 1949” by Xavier Paulès. A thoughtful, academic history of an under-analyzed period.

Falling prices for food and electric cars in China, as well as 16 straight months of year-on-year declines in producer prices, raise concerns about the potential for a fall in the general level of prices: deflation. nytimes.com/2024/02/08/bus…

Industrial policy has built a central China city into an E.V. powerhouse. But even there, a housing crisis looms. W/⁦ ⁦Joy Dong⁩ ⁦Li You⁩ nytimes.com/2024/01/27/bus…

Latest project: How Houthi Attacks Have Upended Global Shipping - W/ Agnes Chang Weiyi (Dawn) Cai Keith Bradsher nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Houthi attacks have driven up freight rates, with the potential to affect inflation. But the rate increases so far are much smaller than those during the pandemic. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Selfishly, I am glad to see that China's surplus in manufactures is increasingly cited as a relevant variable

'Much of the increased factory output is being sold overseas. China’s trade surplus in manufactured goods equals about 10 percent of the country’s economic output.'

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'China is profiting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has led Moscow to switch from the West to Beijing for purchases of everything.'
Good dispatch on deepening 🇨🇳🇷🇺 asymmetric economic interdependency by Keith Bradsher in The New York Times. nytimes.com/2023/12/21/bus…

The largest blizzard in China this winter has hit the north, with Beijing and Tianjin ushering in their first snow. There was 18cm of snow in Song, Henan, 22.7mm of snow in Gongyi. A second, stronger blizzard will hit a day later, and temperature will hit rock bottom.

China’s electric car industry is growing so fast that companies have trouble finding enough skilled technicians to install all the robots. nytimes.com/2023/12/08/bus…

China’s rising debt spurs Moody’s to cut the Chinese government's credit outlook. China's finance ministry expressed disappointment and said the country's finances were sound. nytimes.com/2023/12/05/bus…

First Xi and now Biden have said they will not attend the #COP28 climate summit in Dubai. China, with more than a quarter of current emissions, and the U.S., with nearly a sixth, are crucial. nytimes.com/2023/11/27/cli…