Donald Trump recently hosted a diplomatic summit between leaders from Serbia and Kosovo, touting a diplomatic achievement in a historically tense region. Upon closer examination, the proposed deal may have been a facade for plays involving China and Israel.

Decoupling serves neither China nor the United States. Instead, it would impose grave economic costs on both countries at best and threatens a calamitous military clash at worst.

China is not signaling that it favors decoupling. The world is simply returning to the era of economic sovereignty. China must act adroitly as the world’s largest supplier goods and its biggest marketplace.

A new interpretation of China’s reform and opening-up is designed to more effectively coordinate the country’s economy with the rest of the world. The key to institutionalizing China’s domestic market is attracting more international investment.

China outlined a plan to further integrate its successful special economic zone Shenzhen, an emerging tech hub, with Macau and Hong Kong

The Trump administration’s tariffs against China were recently ruled to violate international trade law. With a key stakeholder in the multilateral trading system willfully disregarding the very rules that it helped inscribe, the rules-bound order can only be worse off.

Deng Xiaoping’s actions capitulated China into an economic superpower that is regaining wealth and power that was lost to the West centuries before. With this new abundance of wealth, China will have some consequential decisions about where to invest the wealth.

Donald Trump’s tax return report is a bombshell even in the midst of a turbulent year. Within the numbers may lie the answers to some of Trump’s erratic decisions and outbursts.

The US dollar has long enjoyed a global status, but a turbulent 2020 combined with rising powers are challenging the de facto currency of the world.

The country’s biggest risk today is economic isolation from the rest of the world. It must continue to participate actively in the world economy and contribute what it can. Total self-sufficiency is possible for China only with a decline in its standard of living.