Although many societies aspire to provide equal opportunities for everyone, that is easier said than done. People born into different economic and social statuses have unequal educational or financial starting points. This often leads to very different career and life opportunities.

As the WTO-led multilateral trading system has weakened, free trade areas are driving the process of laying down international rules.

A large-scale U.S. decoupling from China cannot succeed because the global landscape of trade is complex and unable to respond to sudden shock. Relations are destined to get better, despite temporary setbacks.

Chinese technology companies are suffering reputational damage from the deteriorating US-China bilateral relationship, but they can take proactive steps to protect their brand image and success.

This is no stunt designed to blunt criticism of China’s trade policy. The country seeks joint development in a bid to foster a better future for mankind.

China’s pig predicament communicates the complex range of priorities in US-China trade tensions: when it comes to putting pork back on people’s plates, both American and Chinese stakeholders are aligned.

Concerns are rising in Washington over the Chinese app TikTok, a video-making social media platform whose popularity has boomed in the U.S. in 2019. With concerns that the app is gathering and sharing the data of American users, TikTok might be yet another casualty in the U.S.’ war on Chinese tech companies.

Decouple or not? That is the question in fraught China-U.S. trade tango.

The much-touted Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is to be signed next year, without India.

In the early 2000s, the BRIC economies were projected to surpass the advanced G6 economies by the early 2030s. Today, the huge potential of emerging economies prevails, but the pace has slowed and country trajectories have diverged, thanks to geopolitics.