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China’s top health officials said a sweeping overhaul to its Covid Zero playbook was a refinement of rules and not a relaxation of controls, dismissing interpretations that the changes were a step toward living with the virus. Officials…

China reported 14,288 new local Covid cases on Saturday, with the pace of infection accelerating even as the nation’s top health officials began refining rules around control of the virus. The National Health Commission said that 1,675…

Financial regulators issued joint notice to banks on Friday Developers can extend some loan repayment by one year: people China has unveiled its most sweeping rescue package to bail out a real estate market mired in a record…

The US and China disagree on so many things, across so many spheres, that other world leaders are increasingly warning of a deeper rupture that could split the global economy. With the stakes rarely higher, President Joe Biden heads to…

China's economy has grown 3% over the past three quarters and is stabilising on an "upward trend", Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, vowing to continue to support the economy with policy measures. The comments were made in a meeting with…

One analyst report went as far as to say many of China’s chip firms will be ‘destroyed, damaged, or circumscribed’ by the latest US export controls One immediate response may be to seek leniency from the US through compliance,…

Federal regulations do not apply to US states, but Joe Biden’s administration has urged local leaders to align their policies with national security efforts At least 1,681 US state and local entities bought equipment and services…

Shanghai is planning to build a world-class hub for automobile chip makers to serve the sector’s strong demand, a homegrown upshot of Washington’s widening bans on shipping chips and chip-making equipment to China. Electronics including…

The State Council has proposed an eight-pronged approach to shore up China’s digital economy The proposal came days after a rout of Chinese tech stocks in Hong Kong and New York wiped out trillions of dollars of market value The…

He Lifeng, head of China's state planning agency, is likely to succeed the country's economic tsar Vice Premier Liu He in March, but may struggle to maintain his predecessor's policy clout. He, 67, a confidant of President Xi Jinping,…