China Looks West: What Is at Stake in Beijing’s “New Silk Road” Project
By Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett and Wu Bingbing
Not even two years into what will almost certainly be a ten-year tenure as China’s president,...
Here Is the Path to Peace in the South China Sea
By Hu Bo
President Xi Jinping's meeting with US President Barack Obama provides a rare opportunity for benign interactions to take place that allow for...
Global recovery 2021 and the dark legacies of Smoot-Hawley
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
In 2021, China’s economic momentum will drive global economic prospects. But new trade wars could derail global recovery, again.
In the...
French Election: As Marine Le Pen Makes it to Second Round, the Left-Wing Vote...
By Paul Smith
After the first round of the 2017 presidential election in France, economist Thomas Piketty suggested that while there were four candidates on very close...
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),...
Can China’s Belt and Road Initiative Successfully Lead to a New Eurasian Economic Zone?
By Jeremy Garlick
China’s Belt and Road Initiative, also known as “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR), is a grand plan to connect East Asia with...
Behind the UK-China-EU Ménage à Trois
By Dan Steinbock
In the short-term, the UK-China ‘golden decade’ will be reflected in a series of multi-billion pound business deals. In the medium-term, it...
Time for Asian-style diplomacy, not the US, to take the lead on North Korea
By Chandran Nair
Chandran Nair says Asian nations cannot be mere bystanders or slavish US allies as Washington’s self-serving strategies worsen the prospects for regional...
BRICS – A Future in Limbo?
By Peter Koenig
The BRICS are not what they intended to be, never really were.
Today it’s clear that fascist-turned Brazil is out - so we are...
How the 2016 Election Mirrors Failure of US Democracy, and the Implications on Sino-US...
By Zhang Zhixin
The election mirrors failure of US democracy by showing that the party elites try to manipulate the primary process, the election system...
