The Xi Decade: New Thought for the New Era
By Dan Steinbock
In the Xi decade, Chinese transition to the post-industrial society will accelerate, despite the new normal in the world economy.
As the 19th...
What does China’s Handling of the Coronavirus Mean for Digital Economies?
By Bai Guo
How does the general situation currently stand?
The outbreak of this epidemic has severely disrupted the supply chain of many industries. The modern...
Weathering COVID-19: Lessons from Wuhan and Milan for Urban Governance and Sustainability
By Xiangming Chen and Yi Teresa Wu
The global spread of COVID-19 has exposed the world’s largest and densest urban centres to bearing the brunt...
How the Pandemic has Changed China’s Economy – Perhaps for Good
By Gilles Guiheux, Guo Ye, Ke Huang, Li Jun, Manon Laurent, and Renyou Hou
China was the first country to be affected by Covid-19 and...
China’s Africa Strategy Is Shifting From Extraction to Investment – Driven From the Industry-Rich...
By Lauren Johnston
China experienced a massive economic boom in the 1990s and 2000s which increased its demand for resource imports, like oil, from Africa. This led...
The Social Theory of Contemporary Capitalism
By Partha Chatterjee
The sociology of capitalism developed by Max Weber and its critique developed by Marxists are unable to account for the transformed structure...
Chinese Resilience and Silent, Simple and Steady Resistance – a Model for Mankind
By Peter Koenig
In a positive appeal to the Chinese people, last Saturday, President Xi Jinping has called on the nation’s courage to defeat the...
2020-22: Soaring Costs of the West’s Pandemic Failure
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
The West has failed to contain the pandemic, which has already caused almost 300 million confirmed cases, 6 million deaths and...
The China-EU-US-Triangle Déjà Vu
By Dan Steinbock
The new rapprochement between Brussels and Beijing involves converging economic interests between Europe and China – and diverging strategic interests between Europe...
India Has Landed on the Moon: Here’s What the Political and Economic Gains Are
By Christopher Newman
From the early days of human space activity in the 1960s, missions to the Moon have attracted significant global attention. India’s recent...
