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.

China is determined to fight three critical battles: preventing and resolving the major risks, conducting targeted poverty reduction, and controlling pollution.

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.

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.

As President Khaltmaagin Battulga’s administration plans new multilateral infrastructure projects with China and Russia, it appears to be gradually shifting away from its "Third Neighbor" relationships, chief among them its relations with the United States.

China is easing its trade restrictions. The US should too.

Chinese companies are facing barriers as the U.S. continues to restrict the market entry of foreign companies considered a national security risk.

Security and the economy are the two key areas of global governance. Zero-sum game thinking on these issues should be avoided at all costs.

The bright side of 2018 is the continuation of Chinese innovation-led new economy. We will see it lead Chinese economic structural change further to new heights.

With China’s economic development and transformation, as well as the stronger domestic consumption and innovation, US enterprises are still willing to increase direct investment in China.