David Kelly

on March 25, 2016

David Kelly is a Research Director at China Policy, a Beijing-registered research and advisory company working across major policy fields. He is also a visiting professor in the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology at Peking University. First traveling to China in 1975-1976 for language study, he received a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from Sydney University. Following a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Chicago, he steered a course between intellectual history and political science, later moving into policy analysis while a research fellow of the East Asia Institute in Singapore. His current focus is the external impact of China’s internal governance.

Continental Shift: How China is Changing Africa

A China in Africa Podcast

By Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more on March 25, 2016

For their new book, Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa’s 21st Century, South African authors Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak embarked on a 14-country odyssey across two continents over a span of five years to report on Africa’s changing economic, political, and social landscapes.

What they discovered along the way was that China’s role had become pivotal in so many of the African countries they visited. The Chinese presence in Africa, they observed, “is the defining phenomenon of our time.”

Why China’s Economy Can’t Collapse

on March 24, 2016

China’s economic outlook once again became the focus of attention for many last week. For one thing, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) listed the possibility of a hard landing for China’s economy as the topmost of the world’s top 10 risks. There was, nevertheless, no apparent reaction in U.S. or China stock markets, whose prices rose as expected, in stark contrast to their reaction to bad news from the Chinese economy earlier this year.