by Daniel Garst | Oct 3, 2025 | Chinese Education
From China Dream to Nightmare for College Educated Chinese Youth: Chinese children have long made the following compact while growing up. They bury their heads in their books and study like crazy from a very early age up through high school to get ahead in China’s...
by Daniel Garst | Sep 10, 2025 | Chinese Business
CHINA’S SUMMER OF ECONOMIC MISERY: “April is the cruelest month,” or so begins T. S. Eliot’s bleak modernist masterpiece poem, “The Wasteland.” After seeing China’s July 2025 economic data, Chinese Government officials would certainly beg to differ with Elliot. The...
by Daniel Garst | Jul 24, 2025 | Chinese Business
WHAT THE RECENTLY RELEASED 2025 Q2 DATA DUMP SAYS ABOUT CHINA’S ECONOMY AND PROSPECTS FOR REBALANCING IT: On July 15th China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released a raft of new data on the performance of its economy during the 2nd quarter (Q2) of this year. ...
by Daniel Garst | Jul 17, 2025 | Chinese Business
The problems afflicting China’s economy keep on multiplying. As if the years long real estate slump that is unlikely to end anytime soon and trade war with the U.S. were not enough, there has also been a sharp rise in the number of loss-making Chinese industrial...
by Daniel Garst | Jul 10, 2025 | Chinese Business
The return of Donald Trump to the White House has led to a marked escalation in Sino-American trade tensions. On April 2nd, the so-called “Liberation Day,” Trump imposed a 145% tariff on Chinese goods, which amounted to a trade embargo on China. While the President...
