China’s long economic boom famously left it dotted with an overbuilt landscape of empty apartment towers and decrepit shopping malls. Tracking these “ghost cities” has become a fixation of economists ...

Huawei's Luxury EV Is Now Outselling Porsche, Mercedes, and BMW Combined in China. Here's the System That Made It Possible. Huawei's Maextro S800, a luxury sedan launched in May 2025 for around ...

It's been said that even China's population of 1.4 billion couldn't fill all the empty homes. Many are high-rise apartments in gleaming new financial districts that initially failed to take off.

Two seemingly contradictory realities co-exist in China: on one hand, Chinese cities are overpopulated, while on the other hand, there are also empty cities and tall skyscrapers almost entirely ...

Overbuilding, and a streak of bad luck, have left China’s real-estate developers in the red. Photo: Adam Adada How closely is demand for $3,000 handbags tied to home prices in China? Quite closely, it ...