On November 3, The Wall Street Journal cited research from The Accounting Review, stating that Chinese companies provide less information in their English annual reports compared to their Chinese versions. The probability of them responding to inquiries from foreign investors is only half that of domestic investors, leading to lower forecast accuracy for foreign analysts.
According to a Wall Street Journal report on October 20, China's GDP in the third quarter grew 4.5% year-on-year, with strong exports surging 36% year-on-year in September, and the trade surplus expected to hit another record.
On October 13, the Wall Street Journal reported that China's slowing economic growth combined with the popularization of AI has led to a record 12.7 million college graduates this year amidst a severe job shortage. The urban youth unemployment rate for those aged 16 to 24 stands at around 19%, leaving young people escaping to Dali to "lie flat" or struggling in the gig economy.
On October 13, the Wall Street Journal reported that Xi Jinping is investing heavily to build a technological and military powerhouse, intensifying China’s debt spiral; citing Bank for International Settlements data, it said that China’s non-financial sector debt has risen by more than $43 trillion since he came to power, and in 2025 it has already exceeded 300% of GDP.
On October 8, The Wall Street Journal reported that, facing difficulties such as the real estate downturn, insufficient domestic demand, and second-quarter GDP growth slowing to 4.3%, the stimulus measures introduced by the Chinese government — including mortgage subsidies and capital injections into banks — lean toward caution and are unlikely to fundamentally reverse the economic weakness.
On October 6, the Wall Street Journal reported that, due to employment pressure, exhaustion and shrinking housing assets, some young Chinese have begun reading Mao Zedong's early writings on class and the rights of workers, trying to explain why working hard does not necessarily bring a better life.
A lengthy Wall Street Journal investigation shows that over the past 18 months the United States has invested large sums of money and worked with allies to build backup supply chains for critical minerals, reducing dependence on China.
According to Iranian customs records cited by the Wall Street Journal on September 24, about 1,300 shipments were sent from China to Iran's Ministry of Defense in the first half of this year, including dual-use military-civilian components usable for drones and missile guidance. On June 17, the day the US-Iran interim ceasefire was signed, a batch of electronic components arrived in Tehran, and days after the ceasefire, more than $6 million worth of related components were airlifted in.
On September 15, the Wall Street Journal reported that China's blueberry industry, driven by illegal propagation of foreign protected varieties and bank credit, achieved a surge in production, leading to overcapacity and price wars. A breeding company’s investigation found that a nursery in Yunnan was obtaining cuttings of protected varieties through illegal channels.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, China’s blueberry production has grown about 25 times compared with 2010, and its output in 2025 is roughly twice that of the United States.
The lawsuit filed by Hong Kong Journalists Association Chairwoman Ronson Chan Man-fai against Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, over his dismissal has concluded. The court ruled that Dow Jones obstructed the exercise of union rights, but the claim of illegal dismissal was not established. Sentencing will be scheduled for a later date.
According to a video report citing The Wall Street Journal, as of the end of June 2026, over 1,000 shipments of dual-use goods were transported from China to the Iranian Ministry of Defense, with Mahan Air operating nearly 40 round-trip flights per week between Beijing and Tehran.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Lingling Wei published a report on Fang Xinghai containing internal details, released just over six hours before the announcement by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Ant Group's equity structure includes capital linked to political families, including Boyu Capital, which was co-founded by Alvin Jiang.
A Wall Street Journal investigative report in August 2019 found that authorities in Uganda and Zambia used Huawei cameras and communications equipment to monitor the opposition and dissidents, and that Huawei technicians personally helped crack the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp and locate movements to aid arrests.