China’s Position on Climate Change – Truly Sustainable?
By Kerry Brown and Benjamin Barratt
Back in 2009, the world would not have thought that China will be taking a leadership role in humanity’s...
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...
Grand Vision: China’s OBOR in Context
By Anoush Ehteshami
China celebrated the progress of its ambitious One Belt, One Road initiative in Beijing in May 2017. The OBOR is vast in...
US-China Ties in the Shadow of the Mueller Investigation
By Dan Steinbock
In the foreseeable future, the Trump administration will be constrained by the special counsel’s Russia investigation. How will it impact the...
Dynamic Mechanism of “Social Modernisation” with Chinese Characteristics
By Bao Zonghao, Xiang Kun and Zhang Shuangshuang
While the classic concept of “modernisation” and its logical extension are dedicated to “economic modernisation”，we argue that...
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,...
The Trump-Xi Summit Paves the Way to New Realism in US-Chinese Trade
By Dan Steinbock
Despite preliminary pessimism, the Trump-Xi Summit showed greater trade pragmatism than initially expected, even though it was overshadowed by a raw...
China Down: The Weight of the Past on China’s Struggle for Development
By Richard Westra
Dr. Richard Westra historically contextualises China’s 21st century meteoric growth in terms of its post World War II socialist development and the...
Trumping World Trade
By Dan Steinbock
After the inauguration, President Trump has begun to reset the White House trade policies. But the consequences of “America First” stance in...
China’s Emerging Silicon Valley: How and Why Has Shenzhen Become a Global Innovation Centre
By Xiangming Chen and Taylor Lynch Ogan
Shenzhen is China’s very own Silicon Valley. Find out how it has become innovative by tracing its rapid...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI
By Terence Tse
CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value.
A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...
