After years of post-crisis despair, the broad consensus of forecasters is now quite upbeat about prospects for the global economy in 2018. World GDP growth is viewed as increasingly strong, synchronous, and inflation-free. Exuberant financial markets could hardly ask for more.

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum authorizing Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative, to determine whether to investigate on complaints that U.S. companies were "involuntarily" transferring core technologies to China in order to secure market access.

Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday called for advancing cooperation between China and 16 Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC), also known as

Faced with a global economy in transition, we should uphold multilateralism, pursue shared growth through consultation and collaboration, forge closer partnerships, and build a community with a shared future for mankind.

The scale of all sorts of debt in the US, including federal government debt, corporate debt, household debt, and private debt is nearing an all-time high. Evidence suggests a new debt crisis is mounting.

“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.

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.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told an international summit on Tuesday that although the global economy had improved, risk factors had also increased.Addressing t

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.

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?