Nicola Casarini, Senior Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali
Jul 03, 2018
The next China-EU summit to be held in Beijing on July 16-17 will be used by leaders of the two sides to send a strong message against U.S. protectionism, signaling a change in EU-Chinese relations.
Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies
Jul 03, 2018
As President Trump seeks to ramp up pressure on China by implementing additional tariffs, he and his administration may find the constraints of international law and WTO procedures hard to circumvent. Washington should suspend its tariff threat, sit down with President Xi’s reform-minded team and press for the further liberalization of China’s foreign direct investment and intellectual property rights regimes.
Adnan Aamir, Journalist and Researcher, Islamabad, Pakistan
Jul 03, 2018
Rather than helping Pakistan’s economy, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is creating a debt trap for Pakistan which will result in Pakistan’s continued economic dependence on China.
Dominic Ng, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of East West Bank
Jun 28, 2018
Dominic Ng warns that closer US scrutiny into investments by foreign companies could lead to a blanket ban on Chinese funding in specific sectors, in turn dealing a blow to US jobs, America’s investors, and its reputation for transparency and openness.
Zainab Zaheer, Development Consultant
Jun 26, 2018
President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on ZTE may have been due to China’s announcement of retaliatory tariffs on agricultural goods: tariffs that significantly impact the livelihoods of the U.S. farming community, one of Trump’s biggest supporters.
Kemel Toktomushev, Research Fellow, University of Central Asia
Jun 26, 2018
Although the leaders of the SCO member-states emphasised that the Qingdao summit will be a new departure point for the organisation and agreed in principle that there is a need for a roadmap of actions, it still remains unclear what the SCO can really offer.
Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale University
Jun 26, 2018
The trade war may well be an early skirmish in a much tougher battle, during which economics will ultimately trump Trump.
Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong
Xiao Geng, Director of Institute of Policy and Practice at Shenzhen Finance Institute, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jun 26, 2018
The economic inequality in America is pulling apart its social fabric.
Christopher H. Lim, Senior Fellow in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Vincent Mack, Associate Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Jun 25, 2018
Four obstacles may yet derail China’s Belt and Road.
James H. Nolt, Adjunct Professor at New York University
Jun 21, 2018
As the U.S. and China exchange their first barrage of tariffs, it's worth examining the flawed logic that led the U.S. to begin this trade war. The reality is that the U.S. is not the paragon of a free market economy it presents itself as, and China is not as exploitative in trade as the Trump administration would suggest.