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Intelligence for the New World Economy
Andy Browne

Andy Browne

Managing Editor, Live Journalism

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China’s ‘Everything, Everywhere, All At Once’ ambition

The country is bucking economists’ predictions, with huge consequences for the developing world.
Employees install car components at an assembly line at a Ford manufacturing plant in Chongqing municipality.Stringer/Reuters

The Shipping News for the US is not good

The danger for Washington is that China, sensing US weakness, will start weaponizing its other industrial strengths.
A fleet of ships sail out at sea as China and Russia’s naval joint drill concludes in Zhanjiang, Guangdong ProvinceStringer/Reuters

The US made three bets on China. All backfired.

For more than 50 years, what appeared to be smart policy at the time had troubling consequences for the US.
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

China’s two economy problem

China is moving fast and slow at the same time, making the current spat with the US a sideshow to the real issue.
A truck moves past solar panels at the Dunhuang Photovoltaic Industrial Park.Tingshu Wang/Reuters

The US is paying the price for complacency with China. Time is running out.

Washington did not heed the lessons of an episode a generation ago. Now it’s paying the price.
A view of the MP Materials rare earth open-pit mine in Mountain Pass.Steve Marcus/Reuters

The US and China are more alike than you think

The ‘lawyerly state versus engineering state’ framing creates a false binary.
A person wears a VR headset at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.Go Nakamura/Reuters

Why the US may have to sue for economic peace with China

Despite the bellicose rhetoric often emanating from the White House and Capitol Hill, don’t be surprised if the two sides reach a pragmatic deal.