The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

BEIJING (AP) — They did it — that much seems obvious. But what, exactly, was the “it” that they did? China pulled off a logistically adept Olympics with very few mechanical glitches — no small affair ...

Officially, the Beijing Olympics are taking place inside what organizers are calling “the enclosed compound activity area.” That’s a fancy way of saying “a closed loop.” You probably know it better as ...

What’s the most important economic question in the world today? One contender is whether the euro will collapse. Another is whether the U.S. will plunge into a double-dip recession. But a third, and ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. We’ve all heard about the crisis in Europe, how it’s weighing on the economy, and how a collapse there ...

BEIJING — Three rows of fencing, two guard patrols and multiple “no crossing” signs mark the ominous border between the 2022 Winter Olympics and the rest of its host city. It feels like a parallel ...

After spending the last two months in the U.S. and Canada, Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak has re-entered China’s zero-COVID territory. This is her second trip. Here is what has and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BEIJING (AP) — They did it — that much seems ...

Walter Russell Mead has a typically incisive post about the economic problems rippling outward from China. He points out there are actually two issues here—China and the China Bubble: China is a ...