Zhai Kun, Professor at School of International Studies; Deputy Director of Institute of Area Studies, Peking University
Xiong Lan, PhD candidate, School of International Studies, Peking University
Dec 18, 2019
The US and its courts are extending a long arm of interference around the globe, heaping untold complexity on many Chinese companies.
Zhang Monan, Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, CCIEE
Dec 18, 2019
New growth engines often evolve slower than the old growth drivers fade away, but they’re coming, even though the economy may linger at the low end for a while.
Patrick Mendis, Visiting Professor of Global Affairs, National Chengchi University
Joey Wang, Defense Analyst
Dec 18, 2019
The US and the West can excoriate China all it wants on China’s debt traps, lack of transparency, and pernicious diplomacy. But unless the US and the west come up with better solutions, that dirt road, for the developing world, is still a dirt road.
Kemel Toktomushev, Research Fellow, University of Central Asia
Dec 17, 2019
China has gifted security technology to a number of foreign nations, stretching from Ecuador in South America to Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. Whether such technologies are part of China’s BRI efforts to construct ‘a community of common destiny’ or are backed by some other ulterior motive is unclear.
Dec 16, 2019
China and the U.S. last week signed off on the terms of a limited Phase One trade deal.
Shang-Jin Wei, Professor, Finance and Economics at Columbia University
Xinding Yu, Associate Professor of Economics, University of International Business and Economics
Dec 13, 2019
December 11, 2019, is the 18th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization. It also marks the start of an era in which the WTO no longer has a functioning appellate body to adjudicate trade disputes among member countries. Why is the WTO imploding, and can it be resuscitated before it’s too late?
Zhou Xiaoming, Former Deputy Permanent Representative of China’s Mission to the UN Office in Geneva
Dec 12, 2019
Expectations and requirements are different kettles of fish. A country is only obliged to honor the terms laid out in its accession agreement.
Joel A. Gallo, CEO, Columbia China League Business Advisory Co.
Dec 12, 2019
Further opening and reform of China’s financial sector is good news for foreign firms and even better news for China itself. Financial innovation will encourage economic growth and benefit companies and the public sector alike.
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, Research Fellow, Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation
Dec 11, 2019
US global calls to ban Huawei are falling flat. Even countries that recognized Huawei’s security vulnerabilities would not want to politicize what is supposed to be a technical or business judgment.
Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies
Dec 11, 2019
The Trump administration has demonstrated a lack of a respect for international trade law throughout the US-China trade dispute. Now, organizations like the WTO will suffer at the hand of Trump’s prioritization of his ‘America First’ policies.