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Opinion | What Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can learn from China’s reformers

The Musk-Ramaswamy duet is gearing up for one of the most ambitious reform projects in US political history. Appointed to…

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Opinion | Trump tariffs could be a blessing in disguise for China’s reformers

Historically, China has shown a tendency to enact rapid changes in response to external pressures or implement difficult domestic reforms…

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Trump’s trade chief pick, a Lighthizer protégé, set to push hard line, tariffs on China

Jamieson Greer’s nomination as the next US trade representative, having been described by president-elect Donald Trump as a key figure…

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Opinion | The West can’t have it both ways on overcapacity

Political hypocrisy is a contradiction between a state’s professed ideals and actual practices – an inconsistency that undermines the coherence…

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Opinion | Is Chinese manufacturing set to follow the path of Japan’s decline?

Chinese overcapacity is raising concerns worldwide. It is easy to see why: China accounts for nearly one-third of the world’s…

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China considers higher tariffs on large petrol cars as EU tensions escalate

“The timing of the action basically suggests that this is a response to the EU tariff on made-in-China EVs,” said…

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Opinion | EU and China should join hands to lead new era of green trade

Events such as the US-China trade war, the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict have accelerated this shift, leading to…

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Opinion | US protectionist craze hasn’t done its economy any favours

Most worrying is what Maurice Obstfeld at the Peterson Institute recently called “a deep distrust of economic openness” – a…

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Opinion | Late to the game, Hong Kong’s big splash on tech must pay off

National industrial strategies, the subject of intense study and debates in the 1980s in the wake of the phenomenal success…

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Exclusive | Stephen Roach on how Beijing can right its economic course and the US’ big China ‘blunder’

Now, nearly 11 years later, I would have to say that while the Chinese economy has progressed on many fronts,…

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