China
Growing signs of workers’ unrest in China
By John Chan, December 22, 2008
A series of protests in China, involving state enterprise workers, labourers laid off from export firms as well as teachers, taxi drivers and demobilised soldiers, point to growing social unrest.
China slumps as global recession deepens
By Mike Head, December 17, 2008
In the latest shock to the global economy, China’s industrial production is declining sharply. Only months ago, China was still reporting double-digit economic growth and commentators were speculati...
China on the verge of unemployment explosion
By John Chan, December 15, 2008
After 30 years as a giant cheap labour platform for the world’s major corporations, China cannot avoid being dragged into the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s. With the economy slowing rapi...
North Asian summit: an empty show of unity
December 13, 2008
The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea will meet today for their first-ever joint summit. While the meeting is billed as a show of Asian unity in the face of the deepening global economic crisis,...
China’s economic growth rate continues to tumble
By John Chan, December 5, 2008
The Chinese regime is clearly in a crisis over how to deal with the increasingly severe global recession, which is already producing widespread plant closures, rising unemployment and social unrest.
Chinese president tours America’s “backyard”
By John Chan, November 29, 2008
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visits to Costa Rica, Cuba and his presence in Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit last week testified to Beijing’s more assertive economic a...
China’s stimulus package threatens greater economic chaos
By John Chan, November 25, 2008
The Chinese state media announced last Sunday a huge increase in the stimulus package being proposed to reverse the country’s economic slowdown. Provincial governments have drawn up plans that will ...
Hong Kong enters recession
By John Chan, November 21, 2008
Hong Kong, one of Asia’s most important financial centres, officially slid into recession on November 14.
Former Taiwanese president arrested over corruption allegations
By John Chan, November 14, 2008
Chen Shui-bian’s jailing points to sharpening tensions within the Taiwanese ruling elite as the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) government of President Ma Ying-jeou is fostering closer relations with Beijin...
China’s huge stimulus package: another sign of economic crisis
By John Chan, November 11, 2008
China has announced a $586 billion stimulus package to counter a rapidly slowing economy.
Chinese manufacturing in free fall as export markets collapse
By James Cogan, November 7, 2008
Output by China’s vast manufacturing sector, which employs tens of millions of workers and has functioned as the cheap labour workshop of the globe, is slowing dramatically.
Global recession threatens mass lay-offs in China
By John Chan, October 28, 2008
A wave of protests by laid-off workers is a sign of what is to come as the global recession hits China.
