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Chinese economy
China will not become America 2.0 — not the world’s policeman so much as the world’s secret policeman
Beijing is miles ahead in a tech race that western countries hadn’t quite realized was under way
Xi may well have decided that a slow-motion Cold War with the US is not something he needs right now
The government seems very alive to this possibility
No one believes Beijing’s autocrats can intervene, manipulate or lie on the scale required to shore up the entire tottering $20 trillion economic colossus
Its beleaguered real estate market — accounting for about a quarter of GDP — is facing years of correction and shrinkage
The country wants foreign investment while attacking foreign companies
A seemingly endless property boom has seen rampant speculation and the building of ‘ghost cities’
