If you are feeling dispirited at work or burned out by the general pressure of life, there is a perfect word for you: "involution." The Mandarin Chinese word for "involution" — neijuan — is now a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the CIO of KraneShares, a China-focused ETF provider. Asian equities were mixed on rising expectations of another US interest ...

China’s efforts to curb overcapacity in the new energy sector can act as a window of opportunity for economies seeking to diversify from Chinese suppliers or leverage it to seek concessions in export ...

China’s “anti-involution” policy to tackle deflation, announced in 2024, is still in its early stages. Lower import prices for Chinese goods can ripple through trading partners’ economies. Investors ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a senior adjunct researcher at the Rand Corporation’s China Research Center and senior associate ...

Since the Communist Party of China Central Committee put forward the call to comprehensively pursue anti-involution, the market has largely interpreted it as a supply-side policy — essentially "supply ...

China is gripped by an insidious problem that is eroding its economy: It is trapped in a cycle of competition so fierce that it is destroying profits, driving a brutal rat race among workers and ...

In recent years, China's traditional industries and those with lower technical barriers have faced intensifying competition, with bad money driving out good. This trend threatens long-term industrial ...

While the West focuses on large language models, China's fierce internal competition and broader approach may define AI's next chapter. When DeepSeek released its open-source, low-cost generative AI ...

Mr. Davis is an economics reporter and an author of “Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War.” Competition in China is often far more cutthroat than in the ...