China-US Trade War: Osaka G20 Déjà Vu?
By Dr. Jack Rasmus
This past weekend, June 29, Trump and China president, Xi, met again at the G20 in Japan in the midst of...
Eclipse of US Free-Trade Legacy in Americas and Asia Pacific
By Dan Steinbock
Recently, all major US free trade deals in North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific have fallen under fire. As American legacy...
Patient Capital in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
By Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang
As the world is carefully watching China’s Belt and Road Initiative, many new opportunities continue to spring from...
How the Belt and Road Could Change the 21st Century
By Dan Steinbock
Until recently, globalisation was led by the West and benefitted only a few advanced economies. After China’s three decades of rapid growth,...
Slavehood 2017
By Peter Koenig
We thought slavehood has been abolished a long time ago. Peter Koenig begs to disagree as he describes how we live in...
China and Southeast Asia: Unbalanced Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion
By Xiangming Chen & Curtis StoneIntegrating with Southeast Asia is a key component of China’s multi-pronged regionalisation around its borders as its global rise...
Sino-Russian relations: More rhetoric than substance?
By Robert Bedeski & Niklas Swanström
Despite some re-engagement between China and Russia since Putin’s initial embrace of the West, the positive rhetoric of today...
Entrepreneurship in China
By Yasheng Huang
By most accounts, China is one of the most entrepreneurial countries on earth. According to the widely cited Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM),...
How to Create a Government that Considers Future Generations
By Richard Owen
This year – 2020 – has been shocking. If I try to find a silver lining, I think it might be this...
China Steps Up as US Steps Back from Global Leadership
By Flynt Leverett & Robert Sprinkle
Global leadership is shifting, not drifting, toward Beijing. As Washington greets a new administration disinclined to play a worldwide...