In Al Jazeera, Harry Broadman, a former US assistant trade representative and one of the chief negotiators of the WTO, wonders what Trump’s real plan is with these tariffs when it comes to China, decoupling or ending all business. “He’s obviously a deals guy in real estate, but not international markets … How he thinks is, ‘How can I win and how can I make the opponent lose?’” he said.Read More →

After more than a week of confusion after US President Trump imposed and maintained massive tariffs on Chinese goods, one thing is sure, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of  The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order. The Chinese will not kowtow to Trump, he tells Moats, and they have won round one.Read More →

China might have the upper hand in dealing with the US president’s efforts to curtail the country’s economy with sky-high tariffs, suggests leading economist Arthur Kroeber, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, in the Christian Science Monitor. “The government believes China can sustain the pain longer than the U.S. consumer can … and the U.S. will cave first,” he says.Read More →

The jury is still out on whether Trump’s tariffs on imports from China will hurt the US or China more. But political analyst Victor Shih has seen how China has been anticipating the latest wave of tariffs, he tells CNN. “But China can sustain that (situation) much more so than American politicians can,” he said.Read More →

China can and will use its financial tools to offset the negative effects of the massive tariffs US President Trump has imposed on Chinese goods, says financial expert Winston Ma, adjunct professor at the New York University in a discussion with Bloomberg. China has not been using financial stimuli during and after the Covid crisis unlike the US, and still has the resources to do so now, he says.Read More →

Financial and innovation expert Winston Ma, an adjunct professor at NYU, discusses how AI is reshaping the Chinese industrial revolution at state-owned CGTN. Not only has DeepSeek emerged as a leading AI tool, but other companies are following this lead and expanding into industrial sectors rapidly.Read More →

One-third of global wealth will come from China in the future, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein in a debate with George Galloway on this latest book, The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order. One of the achievements of current leader Xi Jinping is that he has been able to diminish the gap between rich and poor Chinese, says Rein. China used to be an unfair society, focusing on the rich, but Xi focused on the poor and middle-class Chinese, a group that counts for 400 million people and might grow to 800 million.Read More →

The 2024 China company list for non-state companies has seen a large number of newcomers and a drop in traditional companies, says Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman and chief researcher of the Hurun Research Institute, at the China Daily. Companies on industrial products, semiconductors, and software services went up, while medical devices and consumer goods went down.Read More →