China tightens rare earth export controls, escalating a new front in the US–China tech war. Washington readies countermeasures as global supply chains tremble.
China’s energy production grows 3.2% in 2025 while G7 per capita generation declines. Explore how Beijing’s strategic energy expansion—both renewable and conventional—creates structural advantages over Western economies and reshapes global power dynamics.
China’s economic transformation: Explore how high-tech manufacturing, surging R&D investment, and consumer spending became the primary drivers of GDP growth over the past five years.
China’s new education policy mandates a rapid shift in university disciplines towards AI, semiconductors, and other strategic technologies, using a big-data platform to align graduate skills with national economic goals. Find out what this means for foreign universities.
China faces an unprecedented demographic crisis as its population ages and workforce shrinks. With fertility rates in cities like Shanghai plummeting to 0.5 and the elderly comprising 15% of the population by 2025, the economic foundations of its miracle growth are eroding. Explore how soaring dependency ratios, urban pressures, and a collapsing birth rate threaten China’s ambition to become a high-income economy.