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China Used to Be a Cash Cow for Western Companies. Now It’s a Test Lab.

SHANGHAI—For Western companies in China, a new reality has set in: The easy money is gone and competition is only getting fiercer. As China’s economic growth has slowed in recent years, consumers have ...
Courthouse News Service

China gives up developing-country treatment in bid to boost WTO in face of Trump tariffs

Chinese Premier Li Qiang, right, shakes hands with Director-General of the World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in Tianjin, ahead of the annual World Economic Forum New Champions meeting ...
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China dials down growth ambitions with decades-low target. Here's why

China has lowered its growth target to levels not seen in decades. Chinese officials indicated the lower target range was in anticipation of greater global uncertainty. Chinese leadership would ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Country Garden Agrees to Key Bank Demands, Easing Debt Deal Path

Chinese developer Country Garden Holdings Co. has agreed to some key restructuring terms a group of bank creditors had demanded, according to people familiar with the matter, potentially easing the ...
The New York Times

I.M.F. Prods China, Gently, on Its Weak Currency

Caught between Beijing and the Trump administration, the International Monetary Fund offered mild criticism of China for relying too heavily on exports. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Beijing China ...