The strategic perception that U.S. trade measures against China could provoke a Chinese debt crisis and thus coerce the CPC into early commercial capitulation is based on a grave miscalculation of Chinese economic fundamentals. This misjudgment could escalate and prolong an otherwise limited trade war with disastrous consequences for China-U.S. relations and the global economic order.

The Belt and Road Initiative and the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation present unprecedented opportunities to increase trade and connectivity between Africa and China.

Although Donald Trump’s trade wars have opened the door to China-EU cooperation, China must also remember that the EU will not be its ally on every issue.

China seems determined to avoid a serious financial crisis, but as a result, credit continues to expand at an unsustainable rate. A reckoning must eventually come, argues James Nolt.

In the West, many economists and observers now portray China as a fierce competitor for global technological supremacy. This is a serious misrepresentation, argues Zhang Jun.

Though China can endure a trade war with the US, the damage it will do to both countries, and their relationship, will be significant.

In imposing unilateral tariffs and wrongfully accusing Chinese of misconduct, the United States is neglecting its duty as a member of the WTO and international community.

Donald Trump’s trade war is a fundamentally political tool used to advance his agenda against globalists and the American political elite.

Tencent and Alibaba now compete face-to-face in almost every arena, if only to check – if not match and exceed – the formidable influence of the other. Philip Cunningham discusses the many endeavors where the two companies and their founders, Jack Ma and Pony Ma, contend for influence: from gaming to e-commerce to investment.

As Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa assert themselves on the world stage, who is leading this group in a multipolar world?