This is an excerpt from China’s Economic Arrival: Decoding a Disruptive Rise, a MacroPolo collection of essays published by Palgrave MacMillan in February 2020. Although I wrote this well before the pandemic, this essay remains…
Read More- May 18, 2020 ECONOMY, Finance Policy
NPC Watch: Three Notables
China’s annual two sessions, the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, will start on May…
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Beijing is capitalizing on the COVID-19 pandemic to win friends and shape perceptions around the world. Yet China’s energetic “mask…
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If there is a silver lining in the COVID-19 shock, it is irrefutably demonstrating the linkage between human activity and…
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One irony of US-China technology competition is that much of it isn’t taking place in either country. Instead, it plays…
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Since the coronavirus outbreak in January, Beijing has announced a raft of policies to stabilize the economy, though short of…
READ MORE- February 20, 2020 ECONOMY
As Viral Outbreak Improves, Demand Holds the Key to Economic Recovery
Much commentary in the last week has focused on anemic economic activity since China officially went back to work on…
READ MORE- January 29, 2020 ECONOMY
Economic Impact of Coronavirus Will Likely Be Modest
The rapid spread of the coronavirus—rising by more than 1,000 confirmed cases per day over the last few days—has rightly…
READ MORE- January 22, 2020 POLITICS
Proselytizing Power: The Party Wants the World to Learn from Its Experiences
In recent years the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has stepped up its global outreach. Since Xi Jinping became General Secretary…
READ MORE- December 11, 2019 ECONOMY, Finance Policy, POLITICS
In Year-End Economic Confab, Beijing Will Look to Reorder Priorities
China’s annual Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC)—the most consequential economic policy meeting of the year—is reportedly under way. It will…
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