Jason Chau

In China, government officials are phoning up women across the country. Their objective: to get Chinese women to have more babies. Check out my latest reporting on Beijing's pro-natalist push in the Economist's The Intelligence Podcast.

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“When was your last period?” “Are you planning on getting pregnant in the next three months?” On “The Intelligence” @jasonchau9903 explains how the Chinese government is trying to push women to have more babies https://t.co/oSHacl6C0v 🎧 https://t.co/0qHp7E7mlI

RT @EthanYWu: In just a few years Indonesia has come to dominate the market for nickel, a crucial metal for EV batteries. Indonesia is al…

RT @TheEconomist: The government’s decision may cause problems, most notably in child care. And these challenges may lead young Chinese to…

RT @jcmittelstaedt: Still the best diagram of China's Political-Legal system.... from the Centre to the county-level https://t.co/R1MlmeAPg6

RT @dunne_insights: The Great China Car Blitzkrieg Officials in Beijing may deny it. But – make no mistake – China has launched a global…

Check out my piece in the Economist, on why Pinduoduo, one of China's brightest e-commerce star, is struggling.

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Pinduoduo’s woes are set against a backdrop of weakening consumer spending in China and a vicious price war between e-commerce companies https://t.co/RmWNXC9IM5 👇

And with the Dems Convention underway, a look back at an explainer I worked on, on Trump's complicated relationship with Project 2025, and its future.

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Democrats pounced on Project 2025, a blueprint for Donald Trump's second term. The former president recently disavowed the plan. So is Project 2025 dead? https://t.co/1T9DnivYwo 👇

RT @ConnellyAL: Seems like Indonesians finding their voice in response to moves to narrow democracy by President Jokowi and his coalition t…

Reposting my piece from last month, on why uranium has become one of the latest geopolitical battlegrounds between China, Russia and the West. And it's unfolding in Kazakhstan.

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Uranium prices have multiplied five­-fold since 2016, heavily driven by China’s ballooning demand. Kazakhstan stands to benefit more than any other country https://t.co/PXtMA11SMV 👇

Our cover story this week - check it out!

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You can be desperate for Kamala Harris to defeat Donald Trump and still wonder how good she will be in office. Politically, she is still an unknown quantity—and is partly responsible for keeping it that way. But there are reasons to press her for more https://t.co/JfCG17JKJY https://t.co/75VlquBiiF

RT @kyleichan: The most common argument against industrial policy is that the government is bad at picking winners and the market is better…

Gradual and long-gestating reforms in China often falls through the cracks in news. As China's healthcare reform picks up steam, reposting my article in @TheEconomist on how it is upending the lives of underpaid and overworked doctors there, and what it means for their future.

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China’s doctors have long felt aggrieved. Their wages ($13,000 a year on average) are low compared with those of other professionals. Yet they work long hours, often more than 50 a week. That is in part because there are too few of them https://t.co/EW3iyypcc2 👇

RT @calilyliu: This is a lesson in Chomonomics (Chinese Mom Economics). My mom showed up in Switzerland with this very crisp Uber Eats pap…

Great reporting from our China Business and Finance editor @donweinland

Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ

The Economist: "China’s manufacturers are going broke—Overcapacity is leading to soaring bankruptcies…Foreign governments fear their domestic champions will be pummelled by low-cost Chinese rivals. But…China’s producers face big problems of their own." https://t.co/gqUr8fRJDT

Our China Economics editor Simon Cox and I looked at China's latest attempt to revive low domestic consumption and whether it'll work. Beijing solution: taking a page from America's playbook post-2008.

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Consumer confidence is low in China. To change people’s minds, the government is expanding a programme that offers households subsidies in return for buying shiny, new stuff https://t.co/Re4xiJgo7g 👇

RT @JChengWSJ: The Economist: "In steering the economy, China’s rulers have powers and privileges other politicians can only dream of…Yet C…

My latest piece in the Economist - China is implementing one of the biggest changes to its company law in decades. I look at the contradiction of the law's objectives and how that speaks to the heart of China's economic strategy under Xi Jinping.

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New company law in China makes three important changes to the rulebook for businesses. One is especially worrying for foreign firms in the country https://t.co/VYJDPgZUly 👇