Several large Chinese companies have recently been restructured for listing on the stock exchange, with most of them privately owned. Days after Alibaba’s restructuring was announced, Jingdong (JD.com), another Chinese e-commerce platform, announced on March 30 that its sub-companies JD Industrial and JD Production and Development will be spun off and listed on the Hong…

China will never have a “meaningful lead” over the U.S. and will remain “far less prosperous” and productive per person, even by the mid-century, a Sydney-based think tank has said. In its new analysis paper, “Revising Down the Rise of China,” the Lowy Institute said it believes that China’s economic growth will slow to an…