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Today — 1 September 2025Main stream

India Was the Economic Alternative to China. Trump Ended That.

1 September 2025 at 12:00
A lurch in policy has shaken the India-U.S. economic alliance against China, leaving India little choice but to consider reversing its own strategy.

© Saumya Khandelwal for The New York Times

Construction at the site of the Foxconn Apple Project in Bengaluru, India. Foxconn is the main contract manufacturer for Apple, which has become a touchstone for India’s China Plus One approach.

India Was the Economic Alternative to China. Trump Ended That.

1 September 2025 at 12:00
A lurch in policy has shaken the India-U.S. economic alliance against China, leaving India little choice but to consider reversing its own strategy.
Yesterday — 31 August 2025Main stream

America Closed Malls, but China Kept Building Them. Now It Has Too Many.

31 August 2025 at 12:00
The first closing of an Apple Store in mainland China hints at broader troubles facing the country’s shopping malls as developers open more of them despite a glut.

© Keith Bradsher/The New York Times

A closed Apple Store on the bottom floor of the Dalian InTime City mall, which is drawing few visitors.
Before yesterdayMain stream

China’s Exports Surged in July as Companies Raced to Beat Trump Tariffs

7 August 2025 at 12:35
China is shipping more goods to Southeast Asia and other regions that often re-export them to the United States. China still sells three times as much to the United States as it buys.

India, Once America’s Counterweight to China, Is Now Facing Trump’s Wrath

7 August 2025 at 01:26
With threats of tariffs up to 50 percent, President Trump seems to be scrapping America’s plan to turn India into a counterweight to China, declaring instead that it is a “dead economy.”

One of These BRICS Is Not Like the Others

18 July 2025 at 17:01
President Trump’s attacks on the group of emerging economies, which includes Brazil, Russia and China, have put one member — India — in an uncomfortable spot.
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