He Wenping, Senior Research Fellow, Charhar Institute and West Asia and Africa Studies Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences
Sep 02, 2022
It’s up to African country’s themselves to characterize their debt. Borrowing is not bad, per se. Chinese loans are small compared with those of Western creditors, and the debt has mainly been used for infrastructure, not running expenses such as wages or energy costs.
Wu Zhenglong, Senior Research Fellow, China Foundation for International Studies
Sep 02, 2022
The European Union will see sanctions through regardless of cost. Meanwhile, it is feeling the backlash. As pressure continues to advance, the trouble will ferment, eroding their resolve. Will the EU be able to tough it out? That’s anything but certain.
Dan Steinbock, Founder, Difference Group
Aug 26, 2022
In its pursuit for unipolar primacy, the Biden administration is risking the economic stability of China, the West, emerging Asia, and the futures of the Global South.
Sun Bingyan, Vice Director of Research Center for Intellectual Property and Technological Security, University of International Relations
Wang Dong, Professor and Director, Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding, Peking University
Aug 15, 2022
Washington wants to build a “small chip world” for itself that is decoupled from global supply chains. This is pure fantasy. The act can neither help the U.S. achieve a secure supply chain nor rejuvenate its domestic chip manufacturing sector. And it won’t slow China down either.
Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong
Xiao Geng, Director of Institute of Policy and Practice at Shenzhen Finance Institute, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Aug 08, 2022
Last October’s G20 Leaders’ Summit – held in Rome, and hosted by then-Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi – produced a declaration brimming with promises to “address today’s most pressing global challenges” and “converge upon common efforts to recover better from the COVID-19 crisis and enable sustainable and inclusive growth” across the world. What a difference a year makes.
Zhang Monan, Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, CCIEE
Aug 08, 2022
Some central banks have followed the U.S. Federal Reserve, but Japan, for example, is marching to the beat of its own drum. The Biden administration and the Fed, meanwhile, claim the surge in U.S. inflation is “temporary.” This reflects a severe misjudgment.
Brian Wong, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, HKU and Rhodes Scholar
Aug 02, 2022
China’s economy has weather the pandemic as well as any other nation’s has in the last few years, but the future seems uncertain as the world order is reshuffled as borders and regulations return to pre-outbreak norms.
James Hinote, Geopolitical Strategist
Aug 02, 2022
The international financial infrastructure has long been dominated by Western institutions. China’s advances in digital currency could help spread its influence on global commerce enough to challenge the hegemony of the U.S. dollar.
Xu Hongcai, Deputy Director, Economic Policy Commission
Jul 27, 2022
China’s fundamentals are resilient and robust, and the trend points to normalcy and growth. Trade is up, inflation has been controlled, and while the U.S. Fed’s rate hike pushed many currencies down, the Chinese yuan has remained stable.
Jul 19, 2022
China reported its worst economic performance since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.