China’s population has fallen for the first time since 1961 when the country battled the worst famine in its modern history under
Slumping output highlights darkening economic outlook for Asia in 2023 as China’s lockdowns upend supply chains. Factory output slumped widely across Asia in
Asia’s second-largest economy shrinks 0.3 percent after three straight quarters of growth. Japan’s economy has unexpectedly shrunk in the third quarter as
China’s exports and imports unexpectedly contracted in October, the first simultaneous slump since May 2020, as a perfect storm of COVID curbs