Explained: Why Covid-19 is surging in China and its possible global economic impact

The Covid-19 surge is expected to throw China into another crisis, further constrain global supply chains and delay economic recovery and across the world.

Nachiket Deuskar

· Dec 20, 2022 · 08:00 pm

China’s economy may never recover from the damage caused by Covid-19

With the slowing of China’s gross domestic product growth, rising graduate unemployment and increasing economic hardship, China is in deep trouble.

Kent Matthews, The Conversation

· Dec 08, 2022 · 09:30 pm

30 years after Tiananmen Square, China is still fighting for equality and justice

In 2018, the country saw over 1,700 strikes by students and workers. Despite risks of being fired, arrested, imprisoned or disappeared, the struggle continues.

Leïla Choukroune, The Conversation

· Jun 04, 2019 · 11:30 pm

China: Number of babies born in 2018 was least since 1961 despite two-child policy

Beijing should not only relax its family planning policy but also introduce policies to encourage births, said a demographer.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 21, 2019 · 06:42 pm

The fear that’s making Chinese women reluctant to have more children

There is a distrust in businesses and manufacturers after a string of scandals related to children’s welfare.

Ye Liu, The Conversation

· Oct 30, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Why China may have to rethink its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative

Criticism of the programme by its targeted beneficiaries has surfaced earlier than expected as the shadow of debt begins to loom.

Philip Bowring

· Sep 02, 2018 · 08:30 pm

China is dragging international airlines into its bitter dispute over Taiwan’s sovereignty

Beijing is using new ways to undermine the island region’s territorial status.

Ed Bryan, The Conversation

· Aug 08, 2018 · 08:30 pm

China’s dystopian social credit system is a harbinger of the global age of the algorithm

Plans for China to rate its citizens for their trustworthiness have been depicted as uniquely Chinese. Don't be so sure.

Stefan Brehm, The Conversation

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Nicholas Loubere, The Conversation

· Jan 18, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Chinese economic growth set to accelerate for the first time in seven years

Central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan, however, called for caution as economists fear growth may be fuelled by debt.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 19, 2017 · 05:02 pm

If China doesn’t become more transparent about OBOR, India won’t be the only one opposing it

Without multilateral cooperation, plans for China's ambitious One Belt, One Road initiative risk opposition.

Harsh V Pant

· Jul 01, 2017 · 08:30 pm

With its corruption crackdown, China is also stamping out innovation

President Xi Jinping has set himself up with an impossible task: keep the economy humming under state domination, while trying to eradicate corruption.

Yuen Yuen Ang, The Conversation

· Nov 14, 2016 · 03:30 pm

China’s marriage rate is plummeting – and the reason is gender inequality

By focussing on single men, Chinese parents and the state are ignoring the root of the problem.

Xuan Li, The Conversation

· Oct 12, 2016 · 11:30 pm