China
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Joe Stiglitz: The Challenges Facing China
Mar 6, 2019
The Nobel laureate economist discusses how an activist government is needed to tackle problems like climate change
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Waiting for the Chinese Bear Stearns
Mar 13, 2018
Unregulated, speculative lending markets nearly brought down the global financial system 10 years ago. Now, Western banks are exporting this failed model to the developing world.
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Imbalances in China's International Payments System
Jul 13, 2017
Why it’s urgent that China adjust its balance of payment structure and safeguard its foreign assets
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Understanding China’s Cultural Revolution
Jun 22, 2016
Frank Dikötter explores previously classified Chinese leadership documents, and attempts to set the record straight.
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To Understand China’s Economy, Look to Its Politics
Jun 7, 2018
The removal of term limits for Xi Jinping may be a better indicator of economic health—or crisis—than official statistics
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China’s Green Opportunity
Jan 12, 2018
China is now the world’s largest greenhouse-gas emitter, accounting for over 25% of the global total. But the country has also demonstrated a growing understanding that a truly green economy promises to improve quality of life and create enormous opportunities for technological and political leadership.
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China vs. the Washington Consensus
Nov 13, 2017
The 2008 financial crisis was a shock to faith in entirely free financial markets. But the neoliberal assumptions underlying the previously dominant “Washington Consensus” continue to inform much Western commentary on China’s economy.
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China’s International Economic Strategy
Nov 21, 2017 | 04:00—05:30
The Implications of Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative for China and the World Economy
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China’s Weapons of Trade War
Feb 25, 2017
A trade war would undoubtedly hurt both sides. But there is reason to believe that the US has more to lose. If nothing else, the Chinese seem to know precisely which weapons they have available to them. China could stop purchasing US aircraft, impose an embargo.
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A Socialist Market Economy With Chinese Contradictions
Jan 3, 2017
Beijing’s leaders face a critical dilemma over a credit boom that imperils China’s prospects for a smooth transition to a sustainable economic path
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China’s Coming Debt Crisis?
Mar 22, 2016
The condition of the Chinese economy is increasingly becoming a significant factor exorcising the minds of global policy makers.
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The China Delusion
Feb 18, 2016
The current bout of exchange rate anxiety is really just a symptom of the fact that China’s transition from an export-led growth strategy to one propelled by domestic consumption is proceeding far less smoothly than hoped.
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Renminbi to the Rescue?
Dec 10, 2015
With the RMB in the SDR, careful progression in China could balance the international monetary system.
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The SDR is the Catalyst for China’s Currency Internationalization
Dec 7, 2015
There is a deeper story to be told about the inclusion of the Renminbi.