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Beijing's concerns about the threat of international intervention eased in the…

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In 2020 the reliance on the Chinese market deepened. China’s early recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic allowed its economy to grow much faster than the depressed economies of the US, Europe and South America. Sales of soya climbed steadily and were given an additional boost by the trade war that reduced sales from the US, hitherto an important riva

Since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 it has been more open to business with the world. China still heavily restricts foreign companies’ access to its own markets, but its international trade, within a market-based system and subject to the WTO’s rules and judgements, has expanded dramatically.2 This reshaped economic relations al

Economic circumstances quickly became more complicated: during 2011, Rousseff’s first year in office, the world economy started to slow down. Several governments in the Eurozone were unable to repay or refinance their debts, giving rise to a new phase of the financial crisis that had begun in 2008. The beginning of a period of deceleration in China