China has become an easy scapegoat for the COVID-19 pandemic, while now it is in better shape than most other countries in the world, says super-investor Jim Rogers from Singapore. “Blaming foreigners is a normal habit during crises,” he adds.Read More →
The US should improve its infrastructure, just as China did, says business analyst Shaun Rein at the CGTN. He looks back at his 23 years in China, and how traveling has become so much easier, because of heavy investments in the fast speed railways network in the country.Read More →
Derailing China’s economic reforms is the only way the US can stop losing its leverage as the largest economy in the world, says political economist Shirley Ze Yu in the South China Morning Post. Improved market liberalization has every time helped China to improve its economic position, and the US has no other alternative to win this fight in stead of blocking market forces in China, she argues.Read More →
One of the key legacies of president Xi Jinping is moving away from some of the key reforms initiated by his predecessor Deng Xiaoping, for example, where it comes to the importance of private companies for China’s economy, says leading economist Arthur Kroeber in Global Village Space.Read More →
Relations between Australia and China have never been so worse in decades, says business analyst Shaun Rein to the state-owned CGTN. Why is Australia upsetting its largest market for its exports, he wonders and dives into the controversy.Read More →
China is trying to contain a second wave of the coronavirus. Economist Arthur Kroeber looks at what the government wants to do. Unlike other countries, China tries to eradicate the number of cases to zero, whatever it might cost. Even though that is not realistic, it has huge consequences for some consumer good sectors and travel, who might not recover for the time being. An overview of the situation in June.Read More →
Premier Li Keqiang caused some rippled over the past few weeks by pushing street vendors as a way to save the economy and generate employment in the post-corona era. Some big cities disagreed, as they have tried to get rid of those vendors and political economist Shirley Ze Yu also disagrees with the street vendor policies, she writes in the South China Morning Post.Read More →
The European Union needs to cooperate with China, argues Harvard scholar Shirley Ze Yu at Bloomberg. While the EU is contracting because of the coronavirus pandemic, China is still showing positive predictions, although at a lower level than in the past. China is eager to expand it’s Belt&Road Initiative, and Europe can make good use of it, she tells.Read More →
Former US President Clinton’s assistant trade representative Harry Broadman fears China might be killing its Hong Kong goose with the golden eggs. He also sees not providing data on the leadership views on economic growth is foolish, he tells at Bloomberg. Read More →
China might be opening up slowly after its coronavirus crisis, but the problems are not over, warns super investor Jim Rogers at Platts, as most of their international customers are just at the start of their economic downturn.Read More →
China is going to be the most expensive and complicated market in the world, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok to Rethink Industries. How the new normal looks like in the retail after the coronavirus crisis.Read More →
Renowned economist Arthur Kroeber, author of the bestseller China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, dives into the information explosion after the Covid-19 virus did hit China. Much information is available, but most is of low quality, he argues, and here he does a reality check of what we can say at this stage in April, including Europe and the US.Read More →