Ahead of a possible meeting between presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, is explaining how the US is boosting China’s stature globally. The US is losing its former friends in Australia, Canada, and Europe, while domestically, inflation is killing the US economy through a trade war with China, he tells at Moats.Read More →

Governments are increasingly investing in sovereign funds to steer their investments into AI, copying China’s strategy, says Winston Ma, investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor focused on the global AI economy, in The Innovator. Winston Ma wrote ten books on the digital economy, including The Digital War: How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace.Read More →

Business analyst Shaun Rein clashes at North Meridian with former Trump ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands on what Trump is achieving on China, Trump’s trade strategy, Taiwan, Iran, and whether Washington still has the leverage over Beijing that it thinks it does. Rein is the author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order.Read More →

In Northern China, the building of the new city Xiongan New Area is in full swing, writes China expert Ashley Dudarenok on her weblog. “These developments signaled serious progress toward creating a liveable, diverse city rather than a sterile administrative zone,” she writes.Read More →

The blockage of the Street of Hormuz threw the world into a fuel crisis, while China was able to fend off most of the effects. China veteran Kaiser Kuo describes how the strategy of electrification offered a way for China to avoid the spike in fuel prices, although it is not clear if other countries can copy this strategy, he explains at the World Economic Forum.Read More →

Business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, discusses the push for a war with China, now that NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has identified China as the real enemy for the organisation, even though China is eager to improve relations with European countries, he tells George Galloway at Moats. Read More →

China, Africa, and the US are pretty different bedfellows when it comes to trade, says political analyst Harry Broadman to Al Jazeera. China seems to have a better understanding of Africa, where the US was in the past mainly focused on opening the African markets for its own benefit, he adds.Read More →

Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein explains at CNBC why we cannot expect too much from the ongoing meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Trump has no credibility at all in Beijing, he says.Read More →