China’s foreign inward investment regime will witness a great leap forward next week during the final plenary of the ‘Two Sessions’ meetings, with the fast-tracked passage of a streamlined and liberal foreign investment law.

The quiet revolution Blinder described in 2004 is underway in Beijing. True, the PBOC has plenty of room for further improvement in its communication and exchange-rate policies. But its progress so far is good news for China and international policymakers alike.

Much of Trump’s wish list is pie-in-the-sky. If there is any paper agreement much beyond what China offered last May, it will consist largely of empty promises that China will be unable or unwilling to keep.

The case involving Meng Wanzhou’s extradition to the U.S. illustrates the precariousness that U.S. allies must face when balancing their relations with the U.S. and China.

The issue of currency manipulation remains one of the thorniest issues to be hammered out during the final rounds of US-China trade talks. So far, negotiations have not reached consensus on a mechanism for dispute resolution that could satisfy both sides.

Although the global economy is witnessing an evident slowdown this year, 2019 is a promising year for deepening the financial supply-side structural reform. This requires China to be neither aggressive nor conservative, and instead be cautious and avoid making blunders.

A comparison of the U.S.’s strategic positioning before the Singapore summit and today.

While North Korea negotiations have collapsed, the Trump administration is now focused on reaching an agreement with China.

The Trump administration’s negotiation pattern historically has been to escalate tensions and then agree to a modest change. We should expect nothing less in the outcome of the China-US trade negotiations.

While President Trump claims that a trade deal is close at hand, it is unclear whether the US can entice China to concede to any of its key demands. It remains to be seen whether the negotiations will be successfully resolved and, most importantly, who will gain the upper hand.