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2025 was another strong year for China's economy — on paper.
Beijing reported the world's second-largest economy hit its 5% GDP growth target for the year. Exports held up. Industrial output stayed resilient.
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No one's going to sound an alarm, blast out a text message, or shoot you an email about it, but the US economy is undergoing a historic shift. We are leaving one long period of expansion — what economists refer to as a "supercycle" — and entering a very different one.
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Sure, Wall Street. Go ahead. Ride the dragon.
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For technology to change the global balance of power, it needn't be new. It must simply be known.
Tariffs on China could end up making inflation worse and hurting US economic growth, S&P Global says
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