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China’s Share of U.S. Imports Has Plunged, but Its Value Added Has Proven Stickier
America is buying far less directly from China and more from countries such as Vietnam and Mexico. But China remains embedded in the value of what America imports.
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America is buying far less directly from China and more from countries such as Vietnam and Mexico. But China remains embedded in the value of what America imports.
A new study shows China’s central-bank credit expansion boosts firm borrowing and output, but barely raises household spending
As Chinese scientists working abroad increasingly return to China, the payoff for Chinese science has been deep and wide
China’s overseas corporate holdings hit $3.3T, rivaling the UK. R&D funded abroad is driving patenting in China.
Analysts use Japan’s lengthy adjustment to show how long and deep China’s real estate correction can run, despite institutional differences
Structural factors may drive China's trade surplus more than subsidies or currency manipulation, new analysis finds
Analysis of 40 years of China's top public science funding shows basic research dominated by an entrenched group of universities
U.S. researchers consistently penalize China-based collaborations, suggesting that geopolitical rivalry is reshaping science’s gatekeeping
The U.S.-China AI patent race is wider than official data suggests — and far more entangled than the decoupling narrative assumes
What accounts for China's remarkable transition from pharmaceutical free rider to global innovator?
China’s abrupt lifting of zero-COVID in December 2022 caused a mortality surge. But with unreliable government data, how severe was it?
China promotes officials using multiple criteria, but a serious failure can void all other achievements. How does that shape officials’ behavior?
China has spent a decade dismantling its birth restrictions, and birth rates have kept falling anyway. Why?
To curb "malign foreign influence,” China's authorities required social media platforms to disclose the locations of commenters. What happened then?
Two decades of data show rewiring, not decoupling, in U.S.-China economic relations
How do China’s annual GDP growth targets shape local government investment, land sales, and accumulation of debt?
Have China’s industrial policies boosted the value of domestic content in China’s exports?
In the early 2000s China launched the greatest expansion of college education in modern history. The effects reached far beyond its borders.
How does China secure repayment in its lending boom to high-risk countries?
China has seen a sharp centralization of policymaking since 2013. The economic costs could be steep.
A new book that presents a sweeping, data-rich analysis of China’s Gaokao, the grueling 3-day college entrance exam that is far more than a test
The recent lifting of the one-child policy is unlikely to boost low fertility in China
How much does “learning by doing” help explain China’s spectacular rise in EV battery production?
How does China’s government reach online audiences with centralized messaging in an era of ever more decentralized content production?
Researchers study a city-level social credit system known as a “national model” that tracks the widest scope of behavior of any such system in China