
News by Country: China
28 July 2020
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China expands sate jobs for graduates as
coronavirus hits private sector (Reuters, 26 July 2020)
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After the pandemic, China’s workers take
another hit from widespread flooding (CLB, 24 July 2020)
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China’s economy seen growing 2.2% in
2020, weak demand, U.S. tensions cloud outlook: Reuters poll (Reuters, 24 July 2020)
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China starts pulling monetary stimulus
punches as economy rebounds (SCMP, 24 July 2020)
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China warned to prepare for ‘big rise’ in bad loans as risks mount (SCMP, 24 July 2020)
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Mixed reactions to China’s plan for
2.5-day weekend to aid virus-hit economy (SCMP, 23 July 2020)
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China state-owned firms’ first half
profits down 38.8% year-on-year ministry (Reuters, 23 July 2020)
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China provinces show strong signs of
second quarter economic rebound after coronavirus (SCMP, 20 July 2020)
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Belt and Road Initiative debt: how big
is it and what’s next? (SCMP, 17 July 2020)
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China job market improves marginally in
June (SCMP, 16 July 2020)
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BRI: The infected project of the century (The Daily Guardian, 4 July 2020)
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China’s economy steadied in June, PMI
suggests (SCMP, 30 June 2020)
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China to buck global economic downturn
with 1 per cent growth in 2020: IMF (SCMP, 24 June 2020)
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China’s promise of loan write-offs for
distressed African nations barely dents a much bigger debt crisis (SCMP, 20 June 2020)
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China calls on banks to give up US$212
billion in profits to finance cheap business lending (SCMP, 18 June 2020)
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Can China maintain construction boom to
help virus-hit economy? (SCMP, 18 June 2020)
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Foreign investment into China up 4.2 per
cent in May to US$9.87 billion (SCMP, 18 June 2020)
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China to forgive interest - free loans
to Africa due in 2020, Xi Jinping says (SCMP, 18 June 2020)
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Parts of Beijing locked down due to
fresh Covid-19 cluster (AFP, 13 June 2020)
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China tolerating weaker yuan to offset
US tensions, boost export (SCMP, 9 June 2020)
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China: End of the Belt and Road? (Euromoney, 4 June 2020)
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China’s factory activity fell back
slightly in May (SCMP, 3 June 2020)
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China ready for ‘worst case scenario’ by doubling down on
economic shift (SCMP, 28 May 2020)
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China 2020 GDP forecasts left unchanged
as stimulus fails to impress (SCMP, 27 May 2020)
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Coronavirus has hit China’s migrant
workers harder than Sars and the financial crisis. but worst yet to come (SCMP, 25 May 2020)
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China GDP: Beijing abandons 2020
economic growth target, Premier Li Keqiang confirms at NPC (SCMP, 22 May 2020)
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Coronavirus threatens China’s Belt and
Rod. What happens when it wants half a trillion dollars back? (Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2020)
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A trade union in lockdown (China Labour Bulletin, 5 May
2020)
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China fails to stop racism against
Africans over Covid-19 (The Guardian, 27 April 2020)
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China’s belt and road plan hits
roadblock as virus pinches supply of materials and workers (SCMP, 26 April 2020)
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Unemployment rate eases slightly in March to 5.9 percent (CLB, 18 April 2020)
· China’s economy shrank for the first time since 1976 in first
quarter (SCMP, 17 April
2020)
· China confronts major risk of debt crisis on the belt and road
due to pandemic (The
Diplomat, 16 April 2020)
· Coronavirus ends China’s honeymoon in Africa (Politico, 16 April 2020)
· Chinese debt relief: fact and fiction (The Diplomat, 15 April 2020)
· Taxi driver protests continue despite government relief measures (CLB, 15 April 2020)
· Coronavirus runs roughshod over debt-laden belt and road
projects (SCMP, 15 April
2020)
· China’s Hidden Epidemic: Domestic Violence
(The Diplomat, 6 April 2020)
· China
trade union warns against discrimination on cured COVID-19 patients
(Shine, 24 March 2020)
· IFJ urges Chinese authorities to ensure free flow of
information (IFJ, 22 March 2020)
· Collective protests begin to flare up again as China
returns to work (CLB, 20 March 2020)
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Roughly 5 million people lost their jobs in the first 2
months of 2020 (CNBC, 17 March 2020)