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![]() Andrew ShengProject Syndicate |
Two major divorces are in the making in March. The obvious one is Brexit, which officially occurs on March 29. The other is the deadline for the...
In a time of the messy Brexit divorce and acrimonious US-China trade relations, there is angst over whether the world is entering a period of...
HONG KONG – Even before the 2008 global financial crisis laid bare the limits of China’s export-oriented growth model, the country’s leaders...
HONG KONG – Earlier this month, at a conference to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China’s “reform and opening up,” President Xi Jinping...
As the year draws to an end, 2018 was not a year of living dangerously, as most of us want more than ever to live a quiet life. The year has also not...
The truce in the US-China trade war declared at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires last week has only temporarily defused tensions and differences across...
HONG KONG – On the 40th anniversary of the launch of China’s “reform and opening up,” the country is well on its way to recapturing its former...
The Chinese have a saying, “crossing the river by feeling the stones”, which describes a folksy, pragmatic approach to an uncertain situation,...
HONG KONG – Trade tariffs may be getting the most attention, but the conflict between the United States and China is actually being fought on...
This year, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war. In 1919, W.B.Yeats wrote his famous poem, The Second Coming, which...
As bankers and policymakers converge on Bali this weekend for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, the question...