Involution is a structural phenomenon with both domestic and global implications that China’s leaders are dedicated to ...

BEIJING — As China's electric vehicle price war intensifies, its top leaders have sounded the alarm with high-profile calls to halt excessive competition, known colloquially as "neijuan" or involution ...

The Chinese government is taking steps to rein in what it calls “involution,” or excessive competition that is hurting local companies and fueling the country’s deflationary spiral. Auto parts inside ...

Multiple factors have contributed to overcapacity in China due to intense domestic competition, and though the government has several anti-involution measures in place, it will take time before they ...

China’s “anti-involution” policy to tackle deflation, announced in 2024, is still in its early stages. Lower import prices for Chinese goods can ripple through trading partners’ economies. Investors ...

Major international organizations, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, have recently raised their ...

In economic policy documents, Beijing’s leadership used the term “involution”, neijuan in Chinese, in efforts to combat excessive competition in market segments such as photovoltaics and lithium ...

Chinese economy has shown remarkable resilience this year, prompting major international organizations, including the World ...

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If you lived in Beijing in 2008, when that city hosted the Olympic Summer Games, the tenor of this year’s Winter Games carries a distinct sense of foreboding. Fourteen years ago, during the lead-up to ...