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Zamir Ahmed Awan: Currency swap deals good for developing countries
The global trade is dependent on US dollar and whenever the US wants to punish any country, it easily imposes sanctions and freezes its accounts. An overall vulnerability has long been felt, but no country was able to challenge the dollar as an internationally acceptable currency for global trade.
November 27 , 2018 -
Wang Huiyao: Digital economy needs global governance
From the G20 and World Economic Forum to national development plans and think tank research reports, in recent years, the "digital economy" has become a buzzword and risen to the top of many countries’ and businesses’ agenda.
November 05 , 2018 -
Wang huiyao: Import expo marks new economic era
CIIE affirms China’s embrace of trade as a positive force that can create benefits for workers and consumers in all countries
November 01 , 2018 -
Wang Huiyao: China-India cooperation can be global yardstick
India, as one of the key emerging economies along the route of the Belt and Road initiative (BRI), is a partner that China cannot ignore as it seeks to diversify its international trade. China and India are the world’s two most populated countries, as well as two crucial Asian economies. The cooperation between them is expected to become a yardstick of South-South cooperation.
October 23 , 2018 -
Wang Huiyao: WTO reform deemed both imperative and beneficial
Over the past 20 years, the WTO has played a critical role in the economic development of nations all over the world, and has been the primary impetus for economic globalization. However, for more than a decade now, the development of the WTO has stagnated due to irreconcilable differences between developed and developing countries. This can be seen in the demise of the Doha Round of talks. With WTO talks deadlocked, the current US administration has adopted an increasingly negative attitude toward the institution, choosing to abandon multilateralism and instead relying on bilateral talks to resolve trade issues. Furthermore, US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull the US out of the WTO. These developments constitute an unprecedented challenge to the multilateral trading system that has done so much to reduce trade barriers and promote the spirit of free trade since World War II.
October 14 , 2018 -
Harvey Dzodin: US should be working, not warring, with China and others
US President Donald Trump is on record saying that "trade wars are good and easy to win" and that he’s a "very stable genius." With his imposition of 200 billion US dollars in tariffs on Chinese exports to the US effective this past Monday, we can conclusively add these two statements to the thousands of documented fake "facts" that Trump has made.
September 26 , 2018 -
Laurence Brahm: Going to America
Laurence Brahm, first came to China as a fresh university exchange student from the US in 1981 and he has spent much of the past three and a half decades living and working in the country. He has been a lawyer, a writer, and now he is Founding Director of Himalayan Consensus and a Senior International Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization.
September 21 , 2018