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Did any other country than China buy real estate as a buyer of last resort?

In a housing crisis that shows no end, the Chinese government is stepping in as a buyer of last resort. Chinese officials on Friday took their boldest step yet, unveiling a nationwide plan to buy up ...
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Did any other country enact a policy favoring mergers over IPOs to strenghten the resilience of companies?

Tens of thousands of China-based semiconductor companies have recently gone out of business, and numerous IPO processes have been halted or terminated. As a result, Chinese authorities are said to now ...
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Is there a reason why the Saudis shifted away from the dollar?

The US dollar’s dominance is in decline as Russia and Saudi Arabia eye the Chinese yuan for oil trades, and investors may need to begin to revise their long-term investment strategies, warns the CEO ...
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Is there any country outside the West that's planning to put tariffs against Chinese EVs?

The European Union moved Wednesday to hike tariffs, or import taxes, on electric vehicles made in China. EVs are the latest flash point in a broader trade dispute over Chinese government subsidies and ...
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Is there a reason why countries in the Global South don't complain about Chinese overcapacity?

China said on Thursday that U.S. and European assertions of excess capacity were "naked trade protectionism" and that efforts to constrain new energy exports from the World's No.2 economy ...
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What were the negative effects that private companies had to face due to a lack of legal status in China?

In 2002, China promulgated the SME Promotion Law, which emphasizes SMEs’ scientific and technological innovations and upgrading. In 2004, China amended the constitution to grant non-state-owned firms ...
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What's the reasoning behind China's Go Out policy, did they publish a white paper or made any public statement explaining the reasoning behind it?

Most nations favour attracting inward foreign investment, and support outward foreign investment only passively.[citation needed] The People's Republic of China, however, attaches importance to both ...
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What did China do to increase the productivity of state-owned enterprises?

In recent years, however, Beijing is turning its back on the very policy reforms that helped propel it to greater economic growth. Maoist socialism is on the rise under the leadership of Xi Jinping ...
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What countries have imposed an investment monitoring system against China besides the United States?

From a 2023-08-20 Forbes article titled ‘Will Europe Restrict Chinese Investment Into The EU?’: Pressure for such a policy has come from the Dutch, the Germans (Greens) and some smaller states. To ...
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Did the U.S. take any measure to prevent China from benefiting from friendshoring?

China is moving to deepen trade and investment links with nations the US has prioritized for friend-shoring, a response that may keep—or even enhance—Beijing’s primacy in global commerce. President Xi ...
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Is there a correlation between government responsiveness to individual/voter concerns and subsequent reduction in policy demands?

In democratic states, is there a correlation between government responsiveness to individual concerns and subsequent reduction in policy demands? I am curious because recent polsci papers on ...
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Why is the composition of China's foreign exchange reserves classified information?

The exact composition of China's foreign exchange reserves is classified information.[7][8] In July 2019, China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange announced that at the end of 2014, US dollar ...
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Why won't China reduce its exposure to US dollars after all this talk of decoupling?

As Treasury yields soar, however, that thinking may be changing - the two-year is up 50 basis points this month and close to November's 15-year high of 4.88%, while the 10-year is up 40 basis points ...
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Apples-to-apples comparison of the public debt structure in the US vs. China

I'm looking for a comparison (i.e. two pie charts) of the public debt structure in the US vs. China. I can easily find data on the [hidden] municipal debt problem in China (as it's been repeatedly in ...
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How do you measure debt sustainability (private and public)?

How do you measure debt sustainability (private and public)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_debt China has a lot public debt to gdp ratio. China’s debt is more than 250 ...
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