China in the World Podcast
12.07.18
Managing a Fragile Transition in U.S.-China Relations
from Carnegie China
Haenle and Cui discuss lessons from the past 40 years of the bilateral relationship, central areas of cooperation and competition, and a future framework that will allow China and the U.S. to avoid conflict. Cui asserts that U.S. and Chinese...
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03.01.18How the West Got China Wrong
Economist
Last weekend China stepped from autocracy into dictatorship. That was when Xi Jinping, already the world’s most powerful man, let it be known that he will change China’s constitution so that he can rule as president for as long as he chooses—and...
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01.24.18China to Roll out Fresh Market-Opening Measures This Year, Official Says
Reuters
China will roll out fresh market-opening measures this year that could exceed “international expectations”, a top Communist Party official said in Davos on Wednesday.
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11.30.17U.S. Seeks to Deny China Market Economy Status in WTO
Financial Times
The Trump administration has opposed China’s bid for recognition as a “market economy” in the World Trade Organization, citing decades of legal precedent and what it sees as signs the country is moving in the opposite direction under Xi Jinping.
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04.19.17China, EU Push Message of Free Trade, Engagement
ABC
Top diplomats from China and the European Union pledged closer cooperation Wednesday, highlighting their common interests in peace and security and pushing a message of free trade and open engagement in contrast to fears that the U.S. is turning...
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02.23.17Why Is EBay Returning to China?
Bloomberg
EBay recently announced that it’s partnering with Ningbo, a major port and manufacturing hub, to help boost the city’s e-commerce with the rest of the world. That’s a farsighted move.
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02.13.17China Accused of Undermining Drive to Cut Steel Capacity
Financial Times
China’s cuts in steel capacity last year primarily targeted mills that were already idle, doing little to reduce the exports that have fueled trade tensions or address the blight of toxic smog, a study has found.
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02.13.17China, the Party-Corporate Complex
New York Times
In December, 15 years after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the United States and Japan formally refused to grant Beijing the coveted label, denying it important concessions on tariffs and other trade...
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01.18.17China’s Top Economic Official Braces for Possible Trade War
New York Times
Liu He has struggled to overcome resistance to a program of measured economic liberalization and more open markets that he argues is critical to China’s long-term economic health
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12.28.16China’s Markets are Tamed— but Not Tempting
Wall Street Journal
The roller-coaster ride may be over, but global investors say that still hasn’t made China attractive for 2017
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07.18.16U.S., China Clash Over Market Economy Status at WTO
Reuters
The United States warned China on Thursday that it had not done enough to qualify for market economy status.
Caixin Media
06.06.16
Uncertain Future for China’s Market Status Bid
It’s been 15 years since China joined the World Trade Organization, and yet China is still waiting for the WTO to grant it market economy status. During this period, some Chinese businesses have expanded overseas while others have been accused of...
Caixin Media
05.09.16
Yao Ming’s Biggest Game: Hoops Reform in China
Retired basketball superstar and Shanghai Sharks team owner Yao Ming is finding efforts to reform China’s professional sports environment a lot tougher than a slam dunk.The former Houston Rockets center, who hung up his high tops in 2011, is trying...
China in the World Podcast
04.21.16
China’s Relations with a Strategic Europe
from Carnegie China
For many years, China-E.U. relations have been driven singularly by mercantilism, but diplomatic engagement between Beijing and Brussels increasingly features a geopolitical component. In this podcast with Paul Haenle, Carnegie Europe Director Jan...
Sinica Podcast
01.29.16
The China Meltdown
from Sinica Podcast
[—Editors note: this podcast was recorded on January 18, 2016]With equity markets in free fall, housing prices skipping downwards, foreign reserves plummeting, and industrial production on a road trip back to the last decade, it’s no surprise...
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01.08.16China’s Obsolete Economic Strategy
New York Times
China has changed dramatically over 30 years, and command-and-control economic management will not produce the results of the past.
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10.07.15Once the Biggest Buyer, China Starts Dumping U.S. Government Debt
Wall Street Journal
Shift in Treasury holdings is latest symptom of emerging-market slowdown hitting global economy.
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10.01.15Jack Ma to US: Quit Worrying So Much About China
CNBC
"You American people worry too much about the China economy," Ma said at the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting.
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09.04.15G-20 Seeks Reassurances that China Plans to Calm Markets
Wall Street Journal
The Group of 20 biggest economies are concerned a stalled Chinese economy could spur further global sell-offs.
Conversation
07.29.15
Can Xi Jinping Turn China’s Economy Around?
On Monday, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 8.5 percent, erasing all of the gains it had made in an extraordinary run-up this year. The drop was the second 8.5 percent drop in recent weeks. The first such drop (the occasion for the Conversation...
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10.24.14China Vows Better Rule of Law, But No Word of Disgraced Security Chief
Reuters
The moves, made at a closed-door meeting of the ruling party's elite, are pivotal to the workings of China's market economy.