Why has the China-US profit gap widened on the Fortune Global 500?
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Freshness
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Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
10/15
Depth
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5-Axis Cultural Radar
China’s unaddressed economic structural problems are swallowing profits and leaving its multinationals falling far behind their US peers in the latest Fortune Global 500 list, despite its firms remaining strong in terms of revenue. The profit gap between Chinese and US companies has continued to widen. Chinese companies posted an average profit of US$4.5 billion in 2025, or some 40 per cent of the
