Dan Redford, President, Quantify China Associates
Sep 23, 2013
As China’s new leadership prepares to undertake economic reforms, Dan Redford lays out how income inequality has gone from being an economic issue to a social issue as the presence of migrants and low-educated citizens becomes more prominent in economic hubs.
Tom Watkins, President and CEO of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, FL
Sep 18, 2013
Years of mounting cash deficits and long-term debts have led one of America’s greatest cities to ruin. Today, as the City of Detroit seeks to dig itself out of bankruptcy, Detroit native Tom Watkins encourages China to take a good look at the result of poor city management.
Yi Xianrong, Researcher, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Sep 18, 2013
As recent reports suggest the Renminbi yuan is going through its most active role in the global trading market in history, Yi Xianrong advises against overestimating what this means for the yuan’s globalization. Yi suggests accelerating the pace at which the yuan is open to the outside world and establishing an effective exchange-rate pricing mechanism before globalization can be discussed.
Jonathan Holslag, Professor of International Politics, Free University Brussels
Sep 16, 2013
China’s Central Committee will gather later this year for a session that will shape the outlook of the global economy. Despite hopes that China will announce a rebalancing strategy, Jonathan Holslag believes Beijing will continue its high export policies.
Chen Xiangyang, Director and Research Professor, CICIR
Sep 14, 2013
Commenting on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech at the G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Chen Xiangyang explains the significance of Xi’s remarks highlighting the need for cooperation to ensure stable economic growth across the globe, rather than focusing on the economic crises facing rising and falling powers.
Ding Yifan, China Forum Expert and Deputy Director of China Development Research Center
Sep 11, 2013
Detroit's decline demonstrates what happens when laws of economic and social development are broken, writes Ding Yifan. It is a lesson that China should learn to accomplish its economic restructuring without repeating Detroit's mistakes.
Walker Rowe, Publisher, Southern Pacific Review
Sep 10, 2013
China’s economic slowdown has emerging economies around the world concerned that slowing growth will impact trade and investment. Specifically, many Latin American markets worry they will be negatively impacted by a decrease in exports to China.
Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale University
Aug 30, 2013
The global economy could be in the early stages of another crisis – and, once again, the Federal Reserve is in the eye of the storm. As the Fed attempts to exit from its unprecedented policy of massive purchases of long-term assets, many high-flying emerging economies suddenly find themselves in a vise.
Zhang Monan, Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, CCIEE
Aug 28, 2013
To facilitate its drive to upgrade the national economy, China needs to renew its national economy accounting system according to the new international standard, says Zhang Monan.
Yao Yang, Professor, China Center for Economic Research
Aug 24, 2013
Considering the lack of progress toward implementing financial reforms, many analysts question whether China’s leaders have the economy under control. As China’s leaders prepare for their annual summer meeting, Yao Yang urges the adoption of a bold plan for structural reform.