In a world where global trade is in crisis, the agreement on the RCEP has been greeted as the world’s largest free-trade zone. International trade negotiator Harry Broadman disagrees, he writes in Forbes. This claim is over-stretching the truth,” Broadman writes.Read More →
The newly elected US president Joe Biden will reset some of Trump’s policies, like on the climate, but economist Arthur Kroeber says Biden will follow his predecessor on China, he tells in Bloomberg.Read More →
The new US president Biden will be treating China in a multi-lateral fashion, not bilateral, like Donald Trump who saw trade basically as a real-estate transaction, says former White House trade negotiator Harry Broadman to BNN Bloomberg. China has ignored its trade obligations since admission into the World Trade Organization in 2001, he says, and Broadman does not expect another line now Trump has shaken that international boat.Read More →
Only half a decade ago Silicon Valley thought China becoming a force of innovation was preposterous. Now, under Trump, China has proved them wrong, says business analyst Shaun Rein in a wide-ranging interview with state paper Global Times. Also: China’s successful fight against Covid-19 and decoupling economies.Read More →
China’s leadership is this week drafting its new 5-year plan. Financial analyst Sara Hsu expects an ongoing shift from an export-driven economy to more domestic consumption, she tells at CNBC International. “China realizes it cannot rely on export as it did in the past,” she says.Read More →
Trump’s trade war against China has already been put in a backseat during the Covid-19 crisis, and also when US president Trump wins the upcoming elections, the state of the economy might not allow him to uphold the current tariffs, says business analyst Ben Cavender to the Jing Daily. JingRead More →
Financial analyst Sara Hsu looks at China’s post-corona recovery, which looks encouraging, although the good news is spread unevenly along the services sector, the smaller companies, and some regions, she tells at the state broadcaster CGTN.Read More →
In a wide-ranging interview with the South China Morning Post, China veteran Kaiser Kuo explains why – unlike many others – he did not become a China-whiner, also not after he returned in 2016 to the US. He is now a leading voice on the relations between China and the US, without taking sides for either country.Read More →
A large number of officially organized exchanges between the US and China underlined in the past the relations between both countries. But since US president Trump came in charge in 2017, about one hundred have been abandoned, says long-term China analyst Arthur Kroeber to Bloomberg.Read More →
China and the US might have their first evaluation of their 6-month old trade agreement soon, but the cross-currents between both countries are here to stay, says Berkeley Research Group managing director Harry Broadman to Bloomberg Markets. China kept largely its promises, while the US cannot afford to take on China in a more aggressive way, he says.Read More →
Relations between Australia and China have never been so worse in decades, says business analyst Shaun Rein to the state-owned CGTN. Why is Australia upsetting its largest market for its exports, he wonders and dives into the controversy.Read More →
India has been one of the hotspots of investments from China, but that might end now the hostilities between both countries increase, says business analyst Shaun Rein to AP. Chinese apps have already been banned by the Indian government, and startups seem to be next. Anti-Chinese feelings among consumers might be putting Chinese investors also off.Read More →