Just as a virus can afflict the healthiest of people, a crisis can sweep up even a well-prepared economy. That is why countries must look beyond preventive measures and strengthen their ability to support a speedy recovery.

China-US trade and global trade will stay on track, because President Trump simply can’t dictate everything.

Rather than resorting to open confrontation or backing down, China will keep up dialogue with the US in the hope of finding common ground, while focusing on its own goals for development.

For political reasons, Trump and Xi will find it hard to back away from this fight.

Some observers worry the Chinese government will use devaluation of the yuan as a weapon in the trade war. It won’t.

The generosity of China’s support shows its benevolence towards Africa.

China will be taking part in the 2018 Vostok war games with Russia.

The main risk in implementing protectionist policies based on security considerations is that the “national defense card” will likely be overplayed, curbing legitimate trade and investment in the name of safety.

China’s economic exceptionalism is now being threatened by a perfect storm of existing stresses – namely, the domestic debt build-up – and new complications, including US trade barriers, the geopolitical pushback against China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and tightening monetary conditions, particularly in the United States.

For all the fears and complaints about the Belt & Road, it at least offers Africans opportunity.