Lawrence Lau, Ralph and Claire Landau Professor of Economics, CUHK
Apr 05, 2017
Lawrence J. Lau reviews the highlights of the nation’s annual NPC and CPPCC meetings to check the health of its economy and society, and finds the progress in both areas encouraging, not least the successes in judicial reform.
Colin Moreshead, Freelance Writer
Mar 31, 2017
President Xi has expressed a desire to uphold and develop the world order. President Xi has expressed a desire to uphold and develop the world order. If Xi is up to the challenge and prevents a breakdown in global trade, China will have will have saved more than its own skin.
Dan Steinbock, Founder, Difference Group
Mar 10, 2017
By the early 2020s, rivalry for innovation will accelerate between the U.S. and China. Ironically, the Trump White House has opted for a poor-economy industrial policy, whereas China has embraced a rich-economy policy.
Richard C. K. Burdekin, Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College
Mar 10, 2017
If you ignore the dragon, it will eat you. If you try to confront the dragon it will overpower you. If you ride the dragon, you will take advantage of its might and power.
Yu Xiang, Senior Fellow, China Construction Bank Research Institute
Mar 06, 2017
Labeling China as a currency manipulator is demonstrably baseless, but amid loose talk and wild speculation on this and other issues, a formal summit between U.S. President Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping is both important and urgent.
Han Dongping, Professor, Warren Wilson College
Jan 23, 2017
While U.S. President Donald Trump was talking about investing more in coal as a source of energy, China has just announced that it will scrap 85 coal power plants under construction and invest 2.5 trillion yuan ($361 billion) in green energy, largely in response to the public outcry about smog in northern China. China’s move in this direction will further strengthen China’s leadership position in green energy.
Vikram Nehru, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Carnegie Asia Program
Jan 11, 2017
Given their economic and geographic proximity to China, Southeast Asian countries are beginning to warm up to the Chinese renminbi. At this stage, however, it would be premature for Southeast Asian governments to do much more than they have already done.
Niu Li, Director of Macro-economy Studies, State Information Center
Jan 06, 2017
Deeper supply-side structural reform will be pursued as China enjoys early benefits of steps taken in 2016 despite downward pressure on the nation’s economy.
Dan Steinbock, Founder, Difference Group
Dec 12, 2016
In view of Washington and Brussels, much of China’s slowdown could be overcome with the privatization of state-owned enterprises. However, Beijing believes in evidence-backed gradual pragmatism.
Xu Hongcai, Deputy Director, Economic Policy Commission
Dec 29, 2016
This is the first time that “seeking progress while maintaining stability” was upgraded to an unprecedentedly high status, that is, from a methodology for economic work to an important principle for governance.