Sep 20, 2017
“The world is entering a post-America era,” says He Yafei. With BRICS changing the global governance landscape, He Yafei delves into this new concept and explains the characteristics of such an era.
Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies
Sep 25, 2017
Going forward, as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa set forth a broad and compelling vision for the next ten years, that vision must be informed by the principles, purposes, associations and ambitions that guided them through their first decade of collaboration and partnership.
Sep 05, 2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping told an international summit on Tuesday that although the global economy had improved, risk factors had also increased.Addressing t
Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong
Xiao Geng, President of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance
Sep 05, 2017
Financial markets today are thriving. The Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq composite index have all reached record highs lately, with emerging-economy financial markets also performing strongly. But digital currencies could further destabilize an already-tenuous leverage- and liquidity-based system.
Zhao Suisheng, Professor, University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School
Aug 25, 2017
If China is to assert itself more in its region and further afield, will it undermine, or even replace the U.S.-led world order?
Niu Li, Director of Macro-economy Studies, State Information Center
Aug 04, 2017
Since the start of 2017, China’s economy has shown a stable recovery supported by the better-than-expected exports, high industrial reserves, and a hot property market. Even with financing difficulties and rising costs, it appears that China’s economy will continue to stabilize with improvement through the latter half of the year.
Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Aug 03, 2017
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which marks its 50th anniversary this month, comprises the world’s seventh-largest economy, on track to become the fourth largest by 2050. ASEAN’s approach may turn out to be the way of the future, enabling other fractious regions to develop sturdy bonds of cooperation.
Curtis S. Chin, Former U.S. Ambassador to Asian Development Bank
Meera Kumar, New York-based Asia analyst and communications consultant
Aug 01, 2017
Enduring wage disparities and outdated and imbalanced tax structures are seen as contributors to growing inequality, where neither the U.S. nor China are immune. Business, government and civil society leaders must come together to ensure the quality of education is improved to meet the demands of a technology-driven knowledge economy.
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Jul 26, 2017
At a time when Beijing seems inclined to turn inward economically, emphasizing state control and punishing foreign investors, American firms should point out the obvious economic benefits of attracting outside capital. American and other foreign firms could create some of the jobs necessary to employ Chinese workers who have come to expect a better life—and are likely to protest if that future does not materialize.
Zhong Wei, Professor, Beijing Normal University
Jul 10, 2017
The bubbles in both finance and property are growing too big. The ordinary real economy is increasingly unable to bear the over-expansion of finance and property of the past 10 years. And NASDAQ is the most precarious bubble of all.