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The Bard of China’s Gig Economy

They came to Beijing because they had dreams of making a better living, because the fields back home no longer yielded enough ...
Join us for a discussion on policy priorities emerged from China's annual Central Economic Work Conference and their ...
China's economy sustained stable momentum with steady progress in November, with new quality productive forces developing at ...
In recent weeks, Western audiences encountered two starkly different portraits of China’s economic model. In his book “Breakneck,” tech analyst Dan Wang argues that China is an “engineering state” ...
As China’s export machine sputters under the weight of 145% tariffs, jobs are at risk. Some 16m workers are involved in the production of goods bound for America, says Goldman Sachs, a bank. Nomura, ...
During the three years of "zero-COVID" lockdowns, analyst Dan Wang emerged as one of the most astute observers of China's rapidly shifting domestic dynamics. Wang witnessed how the stringent COVID ...
Hong Kong’s Grenfell Tower Moment: When Grief Became Sedition While the economy remained stable in the first half of 2025, internal pressures like stagnant consumption, falling property prices, and a ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. China has just sent a warning shot through the global ...
A worker welding metal at a factory in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province. As the global economy stumbles into the fourth quarter, China is increasingly feeling the strain of trade tensions ...
In a his new book Breakneck, Dan Wang argues that if the US really wants to compete with China, it needs to focus more on engineering and less on litigating. Wang’s argument is based on looking at the ...