Dec 17, 2019
The United States is trying to make high-tech a platform for strategic rivalry, which is not how China sees it. The reality in the field is a kind of constructive and strategic mutual dependency.
Shang-Jin Wei, Professor, Finance and Economics at Columbia University
Xinding Yu, Associate Professor of Economics, University of International Business and Economics
Dec 13, 2019
December 11, 2019, is the 18th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization. It also marks the start of an era in which the WTO no longer has a functioning appellate body to adjudicate trade disputes among member countries. Why is the WTO imploding, and can it be resuscitated before it’s too late?
Wang Honggang, Deputy Directorof Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
Dec 12, 2019
China’s idea for a new model of international relations is about more than economics. It envisions global solidarity in the context of multipolar politics.
Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies
Dec 11, 2019
The Trump administration has demonstrated a lack of a respect for international trade law throughout the US-China trade dispute. Now, organizations like the WTO will suffer at the hand of Trump’s prioritization of his ‘America First’ policies.
Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government , Claremont McKenna College
Dec 06, 2019
America’s allies are reluctant to support a move as drastic as a total split with China.
Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies
Dec 05, 2019
The Trump administration has demonstrated a lack of a respect for international trade law throughout the US-China trade dispute. Now, organizations like the WTO will suffer at the hand of Trump’s prioritization of his ‘America First’ policies.
He Yafei, Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
Dec 04, 2019
Weakening political will on the part of the United States and others is undermining the global commons necessary for good global governance. That’s where China comes in.
Nov 27, 2019
He Yafei, a leading scholar of American studies in China, spoke with China-US Focus host James Chau in Hong Kong on Nov. 15. The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
Zhou Xiaoming, Former Deputy Permanent Representative of China’s Mission to the UN Office in Geneva
Nov 22, 2019
Trashing favorable treatment for rising countries in the WTO would be unconscionable.
Zhang Baijia, Former Deputy Director of the Party History Research Center, CPC Central Committee
Nov 22, 2019
Some wrestling may be needed before they can seriously look at decoupling.