Alicia Garcia Herrero, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at NATIXIS and Senior Fellow at Bruegel
Sep 07, 2023
China's economic slowdown is no longer the main contributor to global growth, but the rising strength of developing Asian economies offers hope for sustained global economic activity in 2023.
Zhong Yin, Research Professor, Research Institute of Global Chinese and Area Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University
Aug 22, 2023
GDP in the first half of 2023 increased 5.5 percent year-on-year as the country steadily left the COVID crisis behind. But the goal is not just short-term GDP improvement. If China sticks to its people-centered approach, it will create an ongoing pattern of high-quality development.
Christopher A. McNally, Professor of Political Economy, Chaminade University
Aug 14, 2023
China's economy is at a crossroads. As its old model of development faces challenges, it will require a shift to consumption-driven growth despite challenges in the private sector.
Martin King Whyte, Professor of International Studies and Sociology Emeritus, Harvard University
Aug 05, 2023
China has boasted the world’s largest population for hundreds of years, but with challenges brought about by mandatory birth limits and rapid economic growth, China is now faced with a population decline that likely will endanger Xi Jinping’s goal of moving China into the ranks of rich countries.
Zhong Yin, Research Professor, Research Institute of Global Chinese and Area Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University
Jul 27, 2023
Despite setbacks, the Chinese government is confident that the long-term positive trajectory of the country’s economy will continue uninterrupted. The effects of macroeconomic policy will continue to emerge, market demand will gradually recover and the supply structure will adjust.
Yu Yongding, Former President, China Society of World Economics
Jul 05, 2023
Before Deng Xiaoping launched China’s reform and opening up, the People’s Republic was working to establish a self-sufficient economy. But after dec
James Hinote, Geopolitical Strategist
Jul 04, 2023
Growing extreme partisanship in the U.S. has deadlocked the debt ceiling raising at a time when the U.S. Dollar is facing its greatest challenge as a global reserve currency. China has sought to increase cross-border transactions in the Chinese yuan and has signed more deals to achieve this with several countries. However, the yuan lacks global adoption of its currency and in alternative systems outside of countries that do significant direct business with China.
Zhong Yin, Research Professor, Research Institute of Global Chinese and Area Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University
Jun 27, 2023
The country’s current slowdown in economic growth is a natural reflection of its development at an important moment. It has come to a point where efficiency and quality, rather than quantity, are what will really count in the long run.
James H. Nolt, Adjunct Professor at New York University
Jun 21, 2023
American playwright and humorist George Ade coined the maxim, “the higher they fly, the harder they fall,” toward the end of the Gilded Age more tha
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
May 31, 2023
“The old is dying and the new cannot be born,” the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci wrote in the early twentieth century. We seem to be living in a similar interregnum today, likewise marked by “a great variety of morbid symptoms,” including, not least, the breakdown of global supply chains and the return of inflation. The only way forward is to support the development of new markets, industries, and institutions. But who will finance this effort?