Derek Scissors, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Feb 02, 2018
President Trump’s long-held views and campaign words signify heavy political pressure to shrink the U.S. trade deficit. Additional and unprecedented steps will be taken in 2018, primarily directed at China. But the trade deficit, especially the bilateral Sino-American deficit, may not budge.
Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale University
Feb 01, 2018
The imposition of so-called safeguard tariffs on imports of solar panels and washing machines under Section 201 of the US Trade Act is directed mainly at China and South Korea.
Jan 30, 2018
Latest AmCham China survey developed in collaboration with Bain & Company finds greater optimism about future of U.S.-China relations
Zainab Zaheer, Development Consultant
Jan 30, 2018
It’s no secret that Pakistan and China have recently strengthened their long-standing relationship. With preparations for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor well underway, ties between Beijing and Islamabad seem to be stronger than ever. According to a senior economist in Karachi, “As the U.S. looks inward, China is reaching out.”
Justin Lau, Independent Researcher of International Political Economy
Jan 30, 2018
Utilizing Dependency Theory to understand technological transfers
Zhang Monan, Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, CCIEE
Jan 30, 2018
A solution to local government debt is strengthening the central bank’s supervision over it.
Lawrence Lau, Ralph and Claire Landau Professor of Economics, CUHK
Jan 30, 2018
Recently the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC) reported a rate of growth of real GDP of 6.9% for 2017, a slight increase from the 6.7% in 2016. This announcement was welcome by much of the world but it was also met with the usual skepticism in some quarters, especially because of the recent voluntary revelations by certain regions that they had been over-stating their economic data in the past.
Jan 29, 2018
China is determined to fight three critical battles: preventing and resolving the major risks, conducting targeted poverty reduction, and controlling pollution.
Jan 29, 2018
China last week released its first ever official white paper policy document on the Arctic, outlining China's plans to expand the already ambitious Belt and Road Initiative to the Arctic.
Zach Montague, News Assistant, New York Times
Jan 29, 2018
The fact that multiple cities and provinces in China are confessing to runaway data manipulation might strike some onlookers as bizarre. Major discrepancies between reported and actual growth in recent years would seemingly call into question even the most basic assumptions about the health of the Chinese economy and the trajectory of its growth.