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一 | Dark clouds loomed over the release of Balakrishna’s film Akhanda 2 after Madras High Court stalled the film’s release on Wednesday. While the producers of the action entertainer tried their best to bail out the film, their efforts went in vain. As a result, Akhanda 2, which was slated to release on Friday (December 5, 2025), isn’t releasing as scheduled. The production house, 14 Reels Plus, officially confirmed the news on their social media handle. The unfortunate development certainly came in as a big disappointment for the fans who have been waiting with bated breath to see their favourite star (Balakrishna) in action. With a heavy heart, we regret to inform you that #Akhanda2 will not be releasing as scheduled due to unavoidable circumstances.This is a painful moment for us, and we truly understand the disappointment it brings to every fan and movie lover awaiting the film.We are working… — 14 Reels Plus (@14ReelsPlus) December 4, 2025 Akhanda 2 release postponed indefinitely At a time when the buzz about Akhanda 2 reached fever pitch, the release of the Balakrishna-starrer was halted. A statement from the filmmakers read, “With a heavy heart, we regret to inform you that Akhanda 2 will not be released as scheduled due to unavoidable circumstances. This is a painful moment for us, and we truly understand the disappointment it brings to every fan and movie lover awaiting the film.” While tendering apologies and the inconvenience caused in this regard, the filmmakers assured fans that they are working towards resolving the matter and promised to share a positive update soon. Legal dispute In 2019, an arbitral tribunal directed 14 Reels Entertainment to pay Eros International Rs 11.23 crore over a financial and rights-related agreement emerged from the film Dookudu. In 2020, The Madras High Court had also dismissed 14 Reels Entertainment’s petition challenging the earlier award. A Division Bench, and subsequently the Supreme Court too dismissed 14 Reels Entertainment’s SLP in 2021. Meanwhile, Eros International too did not appeal against 14 Reels Entertainment for ‘contempt of court’ for four years.In August 2025, Eros learnt that the debtor company (14 Reels Entertainment) is making and releasing a film Akhanda 2 with a new legal entity named 14 Reels Plus LLP. The Applicant moved Madras High Court arguing that the LLP was controlled by family/associates of the same promoters of 14 Reels Entertainment. Eros further alleged that the promoters were attempting to bypass an unpaid arbitral sum and described it as an alter ego. The Court also heard the arguments of the Respondents 14 Reels Entertainment and 14 Reels Plus LLP. After hearing all the arguments, setting a single Judge’s order (of setting Akhanda 2 free from all legal constraints in October 2025) aside, The Division Bench of the Court freshly ordered that Akhanda 2 cannot be released, distributed, streamed unless 14 Reels Entertainment / 14 Reels Plus LLP pays the entire arbitral payment with interest. Akhanda 2 premieres cancelled The premieres of Akhanda 2 were scheduled on December 4 at various screens in the Telugu speaking states and also abroad (North America and Europe). But they had to be cancelled at the last minute due to court restraint. Also, the online bookings of the film on various ticketing portals have been kept on hold. Fans have been expressing their disappointment and are hoping that the film will see the light at the earliest. Also Read: Madras High Court Puts Balakrishna’s Akhanda 2 Release on Hold。

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A worker fulfills orders for energy-saving and environmentally friendly boilers destined for export in a manufacturing enterprise in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu Province on August 4, 2026. The enterprise offers products including industrial waste disposal equipment, with sales to more than 30 countries and regions. Photo: CNS PhotoIn recent years, some economies, anxious about their own industrial competitiveness and market position, have politicized economic and trade issues, taking turns to hype false narratives such as "China overcapacity" and a "China Shock 2.0," and using them as pretexts to roll out protectionist measures.
But what are the facts on the ground?
China's Ministry of Commerce recently released a document titled China's Position on the So-Called Excess Capacity Issue. Reviewing the evolution of the global capacity landscape from a historical perspective, it offers an objective analysis of how industrial subsidies, trade surpluses, economic imbalances and market competition relate to "overcapacity," sets out China's policy practices and the direction of its efforts, and puts forward China's ideas and proposals - a forceful response to the "China overcapacity" narrative.
Plainly, the argument that "China's inadequate domestic demand gives rise to excess capacity" rests on a logical sleight of hand - it takes a localized phenomenon at the micro level of the market and applies it wholesale to the structure of the macroeconomy, a picture far removed from reality.
China is not only a major manufacturing power but also a major consuming power. Domestic demand has long been the main engine of the Chinese economy.
To see through the logical fallacy of the "overcapacity" narrative, one must first be clear about where the Chinese economy actually sits in the global landscape.
In the course of economic globalization, China has actively integrated itself into the international division of industrial labor and become the "world's factory" in the truest sense. Chinese manufacturing has enriched the global supply of goods, lowered living costs for consumers in countries around the world, and played an important part in easing global inflationary pressure. But to define China simply as a "producer" on that basis, and from there to conclude that it suffers from "inadequate domestic demand and overcapacity," is a proposition that does not hold water.
From 2013 to 2024, domestic demand contributed an average of 93 percent to China's economic growth, with consumption and investment accounting for an average of 55 percent and 38 percent respectively. China's total retail sales of consumer goods rose from 23.8 trillion yuan ($3.53 trillion) in 2013 to 50.1 trillion yuan in 2025, doubling in size.
Measured at the World Bank's purchasing power parity rates, China's total retail sales of consumer goods in 2025 were 1.7 times those of the US, making the country the world's largest market for consumer goods in all but name. China today ranks first globally in the physical volume of goods consumed, and its per capita annual consumption of some industrial products already approaches the levels seen in developed economies.
China keeps expanding its domestic demand and is working toward a higher-level balance between supply and demand.
Growth in China's total retail sales of consumer goods has slowed somewhat in recent years, and some have taken this as proof of weak domestic demand. That reading is neither objective nor complete.
A strong domestic market provides strategic support for Chinese modernization. The outline of China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) period devotes a dedicated part to building such a market, stressing the need to adhere to the strategic focus of expanding domestic demand, to expand effective investment, to further implement special actions to boost consumption, to promote the expansion and upgrading of commodity consumption, to unleashing the potential of service consumption, to strengthening the foundation of residents' consumption and to continuously improve the consumption environment - using new demand to guide new supply, and using new supply to create new demand, so as to promote a virtuous cycle between consumption and investment, and between supply and demand, achieve a higher level of dynamic balance between supply and demand.
The slowdown in retail sales growth is consistent with China's shift from high-speed growth to high-quality development, and it also reflects the upgrading of the country's consumption structure. China's consumer market is moving faster from one dominated by goods toward one in which goods and services carry equal weight. Spending on services is growing rapidly and is expected to account for more than half of the total by 2030.
China's super-sized market is not only the bedrock of its own development but also a broad platform on which countries around the world can share in the dividends of that growth.
China has ranked as the world's second-largest importer for 17 consecutive years and is a major export destination for nearly 80 countries and regions. It has granted zero-tariff treatment to 63 countries and regions, becoming the first major economy in the world to extend full zero-tariff coverage to every African country and every least developed country that has diplomatic relations with it. It is also the only country to host an international import expo, having staged eight editions of the China International Import Expo with cumulative intended deals worth more than $580 billion. Over the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) period, China's cumulative imports topped 90 trillion yuan. These facts and figures show clearly that China is not just the "world's factory" but, still more, the "world's market."
Looking ahead, China's middle-income group is set to exceed 800 million people within little more than a decade, and per capita GDP is expected to reach the level of a moderately developed country. With vast room for consumption and ample potential and vitality, domestic demand will remain the main engine of China's economic development and will keep injecting strong momentum into world economic growth.
This was compiled and translated by the Global Times English edition based on an article published in the "Chisu Jinsheng" economic commentary column of the People's Daily on August 6, 2026.
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