Mao Ning: "Developing official relations with the Taiwan region is not in Eswatini’s interest. We believe Eswatini will eventually see the prevailing trend in the world and make the right decision accordingly." fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xw/fyrbt/l…

In June, China Premier Li Qiang signaled little desire for “strong medicine” to jolt a sputtering economy. Two months later, leaders have shown no sign of changing their minds despite data that has only worsened since Li’s speech. wsj.com/world/china/mo… wsj.com/world/china/mo…

A Chinese central bank official raised the possibility of further relaxing the amount of reserves banks are required to hold but signaled that no aggressive monetary easing is in the pipeline. wsj.com/economy/centra… wsj.com/economy/centra…

Bloomberg: "The average temperature between June 1 and Aug. 31 was…the highest since China began compiling the data in 1961, the National Climate Center said in a statement…The statement was later removed from the center’s official social media feed." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“China will remain the biggest economic partner for Africa,” says a senior official in Ethiopia, one of a few big countries—another is Angola—generally perceived to have pulled away from China. “You simply cannot afford not to have good relations.” economist.com/middle-east-an…

Bloomberg: "Former People’s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang said his nation should focus on ending deflation, in a rare admission by a prominent figure in China that falling prices are threatening the country’s growth outlook." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

China’s Gen Z Finds an Unlikely New Hero: A Sad, Tired Brit—Jack Forsdike documented his ordeal working for one of China’s tech giants—and became a symbol of the industry’s grueling labor practices. Sixth Tone sixthtone.com/news/1015826

"By 2010, I had hoped that by 2020, China’s stock market would be largely standardized, and I even thought a new international financial center would have been established. But now it’s 2024, and we’ve yet to see even a hint of that." Zichen Wang pekingnology.com/p/wu-xiaoqiu-s…