Zhou Xiaoming, Former Deputy Permanent Representative of China’s Mission to the UN Office in Geneva
Feb 21, 2023
America’s professed commitment to the WTO is suspect: What it really wants is to reshape the organization in its own image. By rejecting the WTO ruling against it, the U.S. is putting the teetering trade body at risk.
Shang-Jin Wei, Professor, Finance and Economics at Columbia University
Dec 14, 2021
The 20th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization on December 11 has once again highlighted long-standing debates about how well China has lived up to its WTO obligations, and whether any deviation from its commitments boosts or slows its economic growth. This discussion affects many countries’ views on whether the current global trading system should be built up or pulled down.
May 25, 2021
China made headway with CPTPP, but had setback on trade pact with Europe.
Victor K. Fung, Group Chair of the Fung Group, Vice Chairman of China-United States Exchange Foundation
Apr 27, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent the world into perilous, uncharted territory from which no country will emerge unscathed. Over half of the global population is under some form of lockdown. All economies, rich and poor, are falling into recession and can limit the fallout only by working together.
Zhao Minghao, Professor, Institute of International Studies at Fudan University, and China Forum Expert
Feb 13, 2020
Washington must be careful in assessing the possible impacts of the novel coronavirus outbreak -- particularly in the implemenation of the phase one trade deal. The U.S. needs to give China a certain degree of flexibility.
He Yafei, Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
Nov 15, 2019
A recent report by Mackenzie said that the country’s dependence on the world has shrunk, even as the world’s dependence on Chinese production and exports has continued to rise.
Ben Reynolds, Writer and Foreign Policy Analyst in New York
Aug 19, 2019
The deepening US-China trade war poses a significant challenge to the health of the global economy A new global recession could push both sides to the negotiating table, or it could provoke another wave of retrenchment and protectionism.
James H. Nolt, Adjunct Professor at New York University
May 16, 2018
We are currently headed into an unprecedented crisis in the world trading system that is not simply rooted in bad laws, weak institutions, reckless leaders or rogue nations; it is rooted in wrongheaded theories. The looming U.S.-China trade war is one of the real consequences of this.
Dan Steinbock, Founder, Difference Group
Apr 09, 2018
As oil can now be traded with RMB-denominated contracts, the rise of the petroyuan will accelerate the internationalization of the Chinese currency as investors begin to increase their allocations into Chinese financial assets.
He Yafei, Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mar 19, 2018
The world is not totally dark and the forces of free trade and globalization remain strong. China stands firm and holds the banner of free trade high.