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Wang Huiyao: Two Sessions signals ‘people’s stimulus’
This year's Two Sessions, the most important meetings on China's political calendar, have been unlike any other in recent memory. With China emerging from a pandemic that has now swept the world, the meetings took on a new format combining physical meetings and cloud technologies.
May 27 , 2020 -
Jorge Heine: World trade, from bad to worse?
The recent resignation of World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Roberto Azevedo, effective in September, one year before the end of his second term in office, has thrown a monkey wrench into the world trading system. With the WTO already in serious trouble, this resignation could not have come at a worse moment.
May 26 , 2020 -
Liang Jianzhang, Huang Wenzheng: Births for the nation
As the demographic trend in China has shown a major fundamental change, some of the local laws and the regulations, which no longer conform to the country's overarching demographic strategy, should be adjusted in due course.
May 26 , 2020 -
Laurence Brahm: Government Work Report-Blueprint for a decade of challenges
Premier Li Keqiang delivered the annual Government Work Report at the Great Hall of the People before assembled delegates of the National People's Congress on May 22, 2020. It was a defining moment in the wake of the most devastating public health crisis that China has had to face in its modern history. Moreover, the coronavirus pandemic that is ravaging the world today is an ongoing crisis for which China must take specific remedial economic measures to address.
May 23 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Chinese economy’s resilience helps ease unemployment challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has changed the lives of everyone around the world and may even change the global landscape. While Western countries are still struggling with COVID-19, China has started its economic recovery.
May 21 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Reform the WTO for a post-coronavirus world
In 1941, at the height of World War II, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met secretly in a desolate bay off Newfoundland. Over the next four days, they thrashed out what would become one of the most important documents of the 20th century: the Atlantic Charter. It laid out principles for the post-war order, key among which were economic cooperation and a trading system open to all.
May 14 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Rising to challenges
The novel coronavirus has become a catalyst for change. Shocking death tolls and severe economic headwinds have compelled countries and world leaders to reflect on the state of our multilateral institutions.
May 14 , 2020
