Eleven lessons America must learn

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Eleven lessons America must learn

As cheap goods pour in, threatening the continent’s manufacturing sector, a search for solutions is becoming increasingly urgent.

As cheap goods pour in, threatening the continent’s manufacturing sector, a search for solutions is becoming increasingly urgent.

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A key measure of inflation in China, they hit a 16-year low, driven by anemic consumer spending and an oversupply of hogs.

Property prices in Shanghai, in particular, are rebounding, but the national market still faces an enormous overhang — 90 million empty or unfinished apartments.

Our Beijing bureau chief, Keith Bradsher, describes how China’s enormous housing crash is affecting economies all over the world.

We can’t afford to underestimate Russia’s strength and its ability to harm Ukraine and NATO allies, but we must not overestimate it either.

Does Xi Jinping see the world this way?

History shows there is no more productive national asset than freedom.

President Trump said the fragile cease-fire was on “life support,” and India’s leader urged residents to cut back on purchases and travel.

How the economic shock waves of Trump’s Iran war will be felt globally.

The country’s exports surged and its trade surplus with the United States widened ahead of President Trump’s scheduled visit next week to Beijing.

Chinese automakers do not belong on American soil.

Beijing depended on Hungary’s outgoing leader, Viktor Orban, to gain a toehold in Europe. A giant battery factory proved a step too far.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is attempting to raise Japan’s profile at a time when China’s clout is rising and doubts about the United States are spreading.

As risk has escalated, central banks have bought more gold to stash in reserve. A widening Middle East war could add to the urgency.

China’s strategic reserves of oil and natural gas have insulated it somewhat, but its manufacturing-based economy is beginning to falter.

China’s bid to build a renminbi-based financial system beyond the U.S. dollar’s reach is gaining traction as a way to sidestep sanctions.