Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist at the Financial Times
Sep 11, 2018
For political reasons, Trump and Xi will find it hard to back away from this fight.
Deborah Elms, Executive Director and Founder of the Asian Trade Centre
Sep 11, 2018
Some observers worry the Chinese government will use devaluation of the yuan as a weapon in the trade war. It won’t.
He Wenping, Senior Research Fellow, Charhar Institute and West Asia and Africa Studies Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences
Sep 10, 2018
The generosity of China’s support shows its benevolence towards Africa.
Sep 10, 2018
China will be taking part in the 2018 Vostok war games with Russia.
James A. Dorn, Senior fellow and China specialist at the Cato Institute
Sep 07, 2018
The main risk in implementing protectionist policies based on security considerations is that the “national defense card” will likely be overplayed, curbing legitimate trade and investment in the name of safety.
Arvind Subramanian, Visiting lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
Josh Felman, Director of JH Consulting.
Sep 07, 2018
China’s economic exceptionalism is now being threatened by a perfect storm of existing stresses – namely, the domestic debt build-up – and new complications, including US trade barriers, the geopolitical pushback against China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and tightening monetary conditions, particularly in the United States.
Wang Yiwei, Jean Monnet Chair Professor, Renmin University of China
Sep 07, 2018
For all the fears and complaints about the Belt & Road, it at least offers Africans opportunity.
Richard Javad Heydarian, Professorial Chairholder in Geopolitics, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Sep 06, 2018
Mohammad Mahathir’s campaign rhetoric may have been initially regarded as election fodder, but his government’s strong stance on BRI projects illustrates the Malaysian prime minister may be leading his country down a new path.
Børge Brende, President of the World Economic Forum
Justin Wood, Head of Asia Pacific at the World Economic Forum
Sep 05, 2018
To survive, ASEAN members must make important decisions about the role of their community in regional affairs.
Giulio Pugliese, King’s College London, War Studies
Aug 31, 2018
Along with military goals, the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” initiative serves a variety of economic purposes with strategic undertones. Japan and, to a lesser extent, the United States, Australia, and India are seeking to increase their regional political leverage, favour their export industries, and shield regional countries from economic dependency on China.