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China's huge hog sector is struggling with excess production after millions of small, often first-time, pig farmers entered the industry to capitalise on record profits during a swine-fever related shortage.

CHONGQING, China—China's huge hog sector is struggling with excess production after millions of small, often first-time, pig farmers ...

By Dan Wang, Chief Economist of Hang Seng Bank ChinaSummary: The richest people tend to profit from chaos

China’s bullying just endangers itself. The failure to gain the secret sauce that makes Taiwan a world-beating maker of advanced microchips tells you how.

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Does Xi understand the cost of the distrust he's fostering at home and abroad?

As China raced ahead of major rival economies from the COVID-19 induced slump last year, Beijing saw a chance to push through tough measures targeting debt-ridden developers as well as industrial polluters and tech giants.

Huawei is in the midst of a deep slump. As recently as the start of last year, the world’s largest maker of telecommunications equipment was increasing market share in 5G rollouts and surging toward the top of the global smartphone market, shrugging off a year of export restrictions imposed by the Trump administration.

China is struggling with widespread power shortfalls, dealing a blow to the recovery of the second-largest economy and risking disruption to global supply chains and heightened inflationary pressure around the world.

Abrupt factory blackouts in the last week reflect a system trying to react to a number of directives from Beijing and macroeconomic developments.