China is making it harder for some state-owned companies to borrow overseas, expanding a campaign to rein in local government debt risks, according to people familiar with the matter.

The United States is in debt with China for hundreds of billions of dollars, yet that sum is miniscule when compared to the total national debt, and the amount of debt owed to other bond holders. As ...

China was the leading financier for developing nations throughout the 2010s, channeling over $1 trillion into infrastructure projects under President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Yet ...

China is managing its government debt burden through refinancing and swaps that buy time but fail to address structural flaws, risking a prolonged balance sheet recession. Sequenced reforms should ...