He Weiwen, Senior Fellow, Center for China and Globalization, CCG
Jul 26, 2012
China’s GDP grew at 7.8% during H1, 2012, breaking the 8% psychological barrier, with Q2’s rate as low as 7.6%, the sixth consecutive quarterly slowdown. This
Dan Steinbock, Founder, Difference Group
Jul 24, 2012
Despite prophecies of gloom and doom, China is moving toward rebound – through stimulus lite.
Daniel Ikenson, Director, Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies
Jul 20, 2012
Patriotism, it has been said, is the last refuge of scoundrels. Indeed, with 86% of the American public disapproving of Congress' performance, refuge-seekin
Steven Rattner, Former Counselor to US Treasury Secretary
Jul 13, 2012
The “plum rain” that envelops Shanghai every summer – a confusing mix of drizzle, fog and smog – is a handy metaphor for the murkiness that currently enshro
Jun 19, 2012
The Atlantic Council's International Security Program hosted a conversation with Former Secretary of Treasury Hank Paulson and National Security Advisor
Ma Jun, Research Fellow, PLA Academy of Military Science
Jun 15, 2012
Recently, there has been an increasing call from the global sphere for the Chinese government to faster globalization of the RMB, since stronger economic growth in China can also help pull the rest of the world out of its current financial slump. The next question comes to whether China is ready for the challenge in next five to ten years.
Chen Youjun, senior research fellow, Shanghai Institutes for Int'l Studies
Jun 12, 2012
A highlight of the recent China-Japan-ROK summit was an agreement by the three neighbors to kick off free trade zone talks as soon as possible. The initiative i
James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic
Jun 05, 2012
The news out of China this year has been relentlessly bad. The political system was embarrassed in front of its own people by the Bo Xilai scandal and in front
Dan Steinbock, Founder, Difference Group
May 25, 2012
Recently, the U.S.-Chinese Strategic & Economic Dialogue (S&ED) was overshadowed by international politics, rapid escalation of challenges in the Eurozone, and
Michael Spence, Chairman, Commission on Growth and Development
May 22, 2012
China and the United States are in the grip of major structural changes that both dread will end the Halcyon era when China produced low-cost goods and the US b