{"id":308758,"date":"2026-01-28T22:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308758\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:35:12","slug":"what-haunts-chinas-investors-us-geopolitics-and-a-birth-dearth-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308758\/","title":{"rendered":"What haunts China\u2019s investors? US geopolitics and a birth dearth, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese investors rank US-China relations and domestic demand as their top two concerns for the next 12 months, while highlighting a weak property market and declining birth rates as key risks, according to quarterly survey results.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While the outlook has instilled a continued sense of caution following a year of volatility and policy-driven rebounds, the overall investor sentiment remains resilient, the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) in Beijing said on Wednesday about its findings.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The survey sampled about 2,100 investors across five major hubs, including Beijing and Shenzhen, in the fourth quarter of 2025. The primary concern, cited by 57.1 per cent of respondents, was the trajectory of US-China relations, closely followed by a majority expressing worries about weak domestic demand.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3336670\/surviving-shocks-what-china-and-us-learned-2025s-trade-war?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tit-for-tat tariff war<\/a> between the world\u2019s two largest economies paused in late 2025, \u201cinvestors have become less worried than before\u201d, said Liu Jing, a professor of accounting and finance at CKGSB, and lead author on the survey findings.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Compared with its stance during the first round of the trade war in 2018, the US approach towards China has softened, Liu said, noting that Washington has learned that aggressive measures against China did not yield the anticipated results.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Liu warned that elevated global uncertainty \u2013 ranging from shifting US trade policies to financial risks emerging in Japan \u2013 could further test investor confidence in 2026, reinforcing the importance of boosting domestic demand and strengthening China\u2019s long-term growth foundations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As relations with the world\u2019s largest consumer market have remained clouded in uncertainty, 56.8 per cent of Chinese investors expressed worries about weak domestic demand, according to the survey findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese investors rank US-China relations and domestic demand as their top two concerns for the next 12 months,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1793,61367,79,54750,381,46958,52466,151223,25663,179,18,151225,19,17,386,151224,9408,7338,1361,42341],"class_list":{"0":"post-308758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-birth-rates","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cheung-kong-graduate-school-of-business","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-chinese-economy","14":"tag-chinese-investors","15":"tag-ckgsb","16":"tag-domestic-demand","17":"tag-economy","18":"tag-eire","19":"tag-fertility-rate","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-japan","23":"tag-liu-jing","24":"tag-national-bureau-of-statistics","25":"tag-property-market","26":"tag-real-estate","27":"tag-us-china-relations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115975115685697580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}