This year’s ‘two sessions’, China’s biggest annual political gathering, featured the announcement of the lowest GDP growth target in decades and official approval for the 15th five-year plan.
SCMP Plus hosted a webinar to discuss these developments with three experts from the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. Other topics included the upcoming US-China presidential summit, President Xi Jinping’s purge of the military and efforts to reshape the economy.
The panel…
US jobless claims fall to 187,000, signalling resilient labour market ahead of Fed meeting – Firstpost
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time dropped sharply last week, underscoring the resilience of the US labour market and strengthening expectations that the Federal…