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Le monde ne devrait pas ignorer la sous-évaluation de la monnaie chinoise
Traduction française de « The world should not ignore China’s undervalued currency » de Brad Setser
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Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (Stratechery Article 7-20-2026)
China’s response to Belt and Road backlash
Many of the accusations serve geopolitical or economic purposes. They are not always logically coherent. Responsibilities of Chinese businesses are confused

China’s globalisation paradox.
How can China dominate abroad while becoming less export-dependent?

Le paradoxe de la mondialisation de la Chine
Traduction française du billet de blog "China’s globalisation paradox. How can China dominate abroad while becoming less export-dependent?" de Richard

China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.

Opinion | We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong (Published 2018)
The official statistics say that the financial crisis is behind us. It's not.

How Do We Explain China’s Higher-Than-Expected GDP Growth and Lower-Than-Expected Components of GDP Growth?
On Thursday, April 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that China’s real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2026 was 5.0%.

Strategic interdependence is rewiring the global economy
It is no longer sufficient for the US-China trade relationship to be driven solely by cost and efficiency

How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution
Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US

The Weaponized World Economy
When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagined epoch of “liberation” under unilateral American greatness or a return to the Biden administration’s dream of managed great-power rivalry. Instead, it was the true opening of the age of weaponized interdependence, in which the United States is discovering what it is like to have others do unto it as it has eagerly done unto others.

China’s dreamers and dropouts: ‘lying flat’ generation checks out in Dali
Cheap, remote and beautiful city attracts thousands of young people and Gen X-ers escaping economic treadmill
