Peter Knaack is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Economic Governance at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. He holds graduate degrees in Economics and International Relations from the University of Southern California. Knaack learned financial Chinese at the Inter-University Program at Tsinghua University, and he has worked as a visiting researcher at Peking University’s School of International Studies and the Center for New Structural Economics. His research focuses on cross-border financial regulatory coordination at the G20 and the FSB, China’s emerging role in global financial governance, and the regulatory politics of shadow banking and digital financial services.

Last Updated: August 3, 2017

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08.03.17

As China Reins in Capital, What Next for Global Trade?

Yu Zhou & Peter Knaack
China’s Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, are tightening controls on overseas spending by the country’s biggest companies and their highly visible billionaire CEOs. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Xi personally signed off on...