Gao Shanwen questioned Beijing’s ability to boost its economy as threats loom from a property meltdown and burgeoning debt.

Chrystia Freeland announced this morning that she will enter the leadership race for the head of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Canada.

Egg prices have risen across the nation by roughly 38 percent over the past year. That brought the average cost of a dozen eggs to 3.65 U.S. dollars in November, from 2.14 dollars during the same month a year ago, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index data.

Countries and businesses around the world will be watching to see just how quickly President-elect Donald Trump imposes new tariffs and just how steep they may be. News Hour special correspondent and Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell reports on how some companies are already preparing.

Early in his 2024 campaign, the brash builder not only proposed unleashing domestic energy production but also promised to construct ten new “freedom cities” on federal land to “reopen the frontier” and “reignite American imagination.

Donald Trump will return to Washington in 2025, becoming the second president to serve non-consecutive terms. Having stormed back to the presidency, Trump now looks to make good on his promises.

Trump's biggest first-term trade impact was to shatter decades of political consensus favoring ever-lower trade barriers.

For all the trepidation about world trade, debt and inflation, it could well be worker shortages that define economic trends this year - on both sides of the Atlantic.

Despite the threat of a trade war with the U.S., economists and analysts tell CNBC that this will not stop BRICS from expanding.

SINGAPORE—China said its economy expanded by 5% last year, formally hitting its official growth target in a difficult year that saw officials respond to a sharp summertime deterioration in key indicators with its most aggressive stimulus in years.

Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent told lawmakers in his confirmation hearing that he would protect U.S. farmers from any tariff retaliation by pushing China to live up to its purchasing commitments under the phase one deal.

Elizabeth Economy is Co-Director of the US, China, and the World Project and Hargrove Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. From 2021 to 2023, she was Senior Adviser for China at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She is the author of The World According to China.