Opinion

Jul 10, 2020 18:05 PM

Opinion: How China Is Turning Covid-19 Adversity Into Market Opportunity
By Markus Herrmann and Jost Wübbeke
By using a strategic crisis management approach to recovery, Beijing is stimulating short-term growth to serve long-term goals and drive technological progress
Jul 09, 2020 18:12 PM

O’Neill: A V-Shaped Economic Recovery Could Still Happen
By Jim O’Neill
Many classic short-term leading and coincident indicators now point to a rapid rebound
Jul 08, 2020 17:10 PM

Opinion: China Will Benefit From Easing Limits on Cross-Border Investments
By Kai Keller
Investors must diversify in order to ensure they can meet future liabilities and aspirations. This includes shifting out of cash and across geographies
Jul 07, 2020 15:53 PM

Opinion: Covid-19 Pandemic Is a Humanitarian Crisis Widening Our Societies’ Fault Lines
By Koichi Hamada
Societies and governments are required to go far beyond social distancing or stimulus payments to tackle deeply embedded systemic inequalities
Jul 03, 2020 20:35 PM

Opinion: China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: In or out?
By Gary Hufbauer, Jeffrey Schott and Zhiyao Lu
When President Trump closed the door on U.S. participation in the trade pact, he created an opportunity for China to reshape Asian economic integration
Jul 02, 2020 17:22 PM

Opinion: Hainan Will Be Its Own Thing, Not Another Hong Kong
By Cheng Shi and Qian Zhijun
Discount e-commerce specialist’s rapid rise is built on strategy of targeting less-affluent consumers with strong social elements like group buying and games
Jul 01, 2020 14:50 PM

Opinion: Asian Economies Must Use Fiscal Stimulus Wisely to Recover
By Chang Yong Rhee
Amid reopening, policies must be geared toward supporting the nascent rebound without exacerbating vulnerabilities
Jun 30, 2020 15:20 PM

Opinion: ‘V-Shaped’ U.S. Recovery Faces Great Uncertainty
By Michael J. Boskin
One bright spot has been the rapid pace of adaptive innovation in online teaching, telemedicine and vaccine research
Jun 26, 2020 10:00 AM

Managing Crises: How Different Nations Have Coped
By Song Bing
Jared Diamond’s instructive ‘Upheaval’ is timely in assessing, and providing insight, into historic upheavals in seven countries and their solutions
Jun 25, 2020 12:05 PM

IMF: Covid-19 Recession and Recovery Will Be Like No Other
By Gita Gopinath
Exceptional support, particularly by major central banks, has driven a strong recovery in financial conditions, but deep uncertainty remains
Jun 24, 2020 20:03 PM

Opinion: Shenzhen Passes Milestone With Personal Bankruptcy Regulation
By Cai Kailong
Draft regulation marks an important step toward a market economy, but there is still a long way to go
Jun 24, 2020 17:32 PM

Opinion: Post-Luckin Coffee Scandal, a Split Will Appear in Chinese Companies’ Listing Plans
By Joel Gallo
Larger firms will flock to Hong Kong, while startups still view a U.S. IPO as a trophy
Jun 23, 2020 15:31 PM

Opinion: The Unprecedented Scale of the Global Lockdown Is Playing Out in Unprecedented Ways
By Gita Gopinath
A blow to the service sector, a decline in inflation and a divergence of financial markets from the real economy
Jun 18, 2020 20:37 PM

Wang Jisi: China-U.S. Ties Today Worse Than Soviet-U.S. Relations During Cold War
By Wang Jisi
Both sides are more entangled, meaning the quarreling is more heated than the isolated Cold War blocs
Jun 18, 2020 06:47 AM

Opinion: Let the Hawaii Meeting Arrest the Slide in China-U.S. Relations
By Huang Shan
Pursuit of mutual benefits should drive efforts to address lengthening list of tensions over trade, technology, Hong Kong, listed companies and the pandemic
Jun 17, 2020 20:21 PM

Yan Xuetong: Will the World Move Into a New Cold War After the Pandemic?
By Yan Xuetong
The world order will become more bipolar and level of digitalization will grow ever more important, writes the Tsinghua University professor
Jun 16, 2020 14:01 PM

Eichengreen: Pandemic, Threadbare Social Safety Net Helped Create Conditions for U.S. Turmoil
By Barry Eichengreen
Police killing African-Americans is not a recent phenomenon. The reaction has been different this time due to Covid-19
Jun 12, 2020 16:35 PM

Georgieva: Covid-19 Threatens Poverty Alleviation Efforts
By Kristalina Georgieva
Policymakers must do everything in their power to promote a more inclusive recovery
Jun 11, 2020 20:43 PM

Opinion: Container Shipping Passes First Pandemic Test
By Mark Szakonyi
How well the world’s freight liners adjust capacity to demand will make all the difference
Jun 10, 2020 20:47 PM

PIIE: Tracking the China-U.S. Trade Deal
By Chad Bown
As of April, China was running behind on meeting its commitments under the phase one agreement