Gordon Chang, Writer
Sep 22, 2015
While China’s National Bureau of Statistics’ (NBS) reporting on GDP growth grates have been called into question by international observers, there is acknowledgement that the structure of China’s economy is changing. The real test of the reliability of official reporting, therefore, will come when NBS issues its Q3 headline GDP figure.
William Overholt, Senior Fellow, Fung Global Institute
Sep 17, 2015
The gravest threat to American global leadership is neither Russia nor China but continued interest group-driven Congressional abandonment of the kind of balanced strategy that won the Cold War.
Niu Li, Director of Macro-economy Studies, State Information Center
Sep 16, 2015
China’s economy has shifted to a slow gear, having a bigger impact on those resource-exporting countries which highly depend on China’s market, but having no remarkable impact on European and the US economic growth. In particular, China’s slow economy is not the “culprit” of the recent US stock market slump, which was caused by the American market’s own problems.
Francis Lui, Director, Center for Economic Development, HKUST
Sep 15, 2015
The IMF holds a cautiously optimistic view about the prospects of the Chinese economy, recognizing that the important reason for a slowdown in China’s economy is the change in its development strategy. The services industry is rising, R&D is expanding slowly, and the financial system is modernizing. These changes take time and patience: If China chooses to slow down a little bit, it will be easier for the country to succeed and achieve the long-term goals it has anticipated.
Sep 11, 2015
The Wall Street Journal writes, "China is committed to reform despite slower growth, has the tools to avoid a major economic setback and won't resort to a currency war to benefit its exporters, the nation's premier said in a speech to global business leaders on Thursday.
Jeffrey Frankel, Professor, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
Sep 10, 2015
The lens of government intervention in China has led foreign observers to misinterpret some of the most important developments this year in the foreign exchange market and the stock market.
Sep 10, 2015
The economy is stabilizing despite a slower growth pace, Li said at Summer Davos held in northeast China's port city Dalian. "On the one hand it is turning for the better while stabilizing; on the other hand difficulties remain," Li said.
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Edward Tse, Booz & Company's Senior Partner, Chairman for Greater China
Sep 08, 2015
Many of today's most successful Chinese entrepreneurs such as Alibaba, Xiaomi, and Tencent know that they are riding and contributing to a historic wave of economic activity. These Chinese entrepreneurs have thrived, in part, because they created companies able to change as China changed.
Sep 02, 2015
Sir, Praise to George Magnus for setting out so plainly a few of the hurdles facing China’s leadership, especially the recentralisation of power and its intrusion into economic policymaking
Fernando Menéndez, Economist and China-Latin America observer
Aug 31, 2015
The downturn of global financial and foreign exchange markets, is causing concerns in the Americas. A Chinese trade and investment focus on the “Pacific Pumas” would be a prudent strategy and help reduce tensions and suspicions between the U.S. and China in the region.