Karen Mancl, Professor Emerita of Food, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, and Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
Apr 16, 2020
Agricultural plastics have transformed China’s agriculture and the Chinese are unlikely to abandon its use. If things do not change, plastic use in agriculture will move from a “white revolution to white pollution”.
Teresa Kennedy, Master's student at Peking University's Yenching Academy in Beijing
Apr 10, 2020
Against the backdrop of the global supply chain and climate change, possibilities for growth in China’s alternative meat market are undeniable, and US companies are looking to profit.
Yang Wenjing, Research Professor, Institute of American Studies, CICIR
Apr 07, 2020
The pandemic will drive major changes in global supply chains and in relations between China and the United States. The anti-globalists will spare no effort to use the ongoing health crisis to drive further wedges.
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, President of Philippine Association for Chinese Studies, and Research Fellow at Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation
Apr 07, 2020
As the epicenter of the outbreak shifts from China to Europe and beyond, China fights stigma with medical diplomacy, hoping to revamp its image and bolster its international standing.
Tang Xiaoyang, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
Mar 27, 2020
Those who ignore the lessons of history are bound to repeat past mistakes. Panic, negligence, inefficiency and waste are the fruit of human weaknesses, not the strength of the coronavirus. This must change, and there’s not a moment to spare.
Zhang Monan, Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, CCIEE
Mar 26, 2020
The world is reeling from the novel coronavirus epidemic. While the epidemic has been effectively contained in China, many other important economies across the world are being hit hard, and humanity has been thrown into crisis mode.
Sun Chenghao, Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy of Tsinghua University; Visiting Scholar, Paul Tsai China Center of Yale Law School
Li Zhuyun, medical investor and former employee at Novartis in Boston
Mar 11, 2020
To credibly claim that its “America First” approach is not isolationism, the United States should avoid excluding China from the industrial chain. Global prosperity and stability be ensured only by staying connected.
Ma Shikun, Senior Journalist, the People’s Daily
Mar 10, 2020
While a live animal market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, has been widely cited as the source, this has yet to be conclusively proved. The ultimate answer should be used to stop the epidemic, not to place blame.
Kemel Toktomushev, Research Fellow, University of Central Asia
Mar 06, 2020
As COVID-19 spreads, the virus and the Sinophobia that follows threatens China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its goal of creating ‘a community of common destiny.’
Hua Xin, PhD, CASS Graduate School
Xu Chen, University of International Business and Economics
Mar 06, 2020
People around the world are at the mercy of the epidemic. The emergency respects no borders, and coordinated global efforts in health and economic policy will be required to turn things around.