Huang Yiping, PKU Boya Distinguished Professor and Former Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, People’s Bank of China
Feb 18, 2020
China’s economy is growing at is lowest rate in over 30 years, but if the country’s nearly 40 million small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) could overcome a lack of access to funding, they could become a powerful engine of economic dynamism. Can digital innovators close the SME financing gap?
Feb 17, 2020
The latest accusation adds to a long list of US charges against Huawei .
Zhang Jun, Dean, School of Economics, Fudan University
Feb 14, 2020
Just five days before the Chinese New Year, the authorities in Beijing finally declared the coronavirus epidemic that originated in Wuhan to be a major public health emergency.
Ding Yifan, China Forum Expert and Deputy Director of China Development Research Center
Feb 14, 2020
It is not the end of the world. The plague will soon pass, and when it does, supply chains will reconnect, production will resume and everything will return to normal.
Steven Yang Yue Heng, Yenching Scholar, Peking University.
Feb 13, 2020
China’s rich trove of ancient wisdom expands the imagination about global governance. Its perspective deserves a place at the table. After asking what our current world is, we must not forget to ask ourselves what the future world could be.
Zhao Minghao, Professor, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, and China Forum Expert.
Feb 13, 2020
Washington must be careful in assessing the possible impacts of the novel coronavirus outbreak -- particularly in the implemenation of the phase one trade deal. The U.S. needs to give China a certain degree of flexibility.
Jianyin Roachell, Transatlantic Digital Debate Fellow and Co-founder of Policybot.io
Feb 12, 2020
Made-In-China 2025 is China’s controversial agenda that could propel it to be the world’s leading nation in manufacturing. While the plan was formally withdrawn after receiving US backlash, Beijing may still be operating along that plan—just less transparently.
Brahma Chellaney, Professor, Center for Policy Research
Feb 04, 2020
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership was set to become the world’s largest free trade agreement. But India’s withdrawal from it has thrown the negotiated trade bloc into imbalance and has underscored India’s qualms with China’s trade practices.
Ma Shikun, Senior Journalist, the People’s Daily
Feb 04, 2020
United States stretches reason past the breaking point as it applies pressure to the company. Britain is adopting the technology anyway, while Meng Wanzhou’s rights continue to be violated in Canada.
Zhou Xiaoming, Former Deputy Permanent Representative of China’s Mission to the UN Office in Geneva
Feb 03, 2020
The road to trade peace is treacherous, especially since most of the obligations under phase one are one-sided and place China at a disadvantage. But tariffs are becoming less useful as leverage for the United States in the face of Chinese economic resilience.