As a pioneer “new type of think tank with Chinese characteristics,” CCG is dedicated to researching think tank theories and continuously innovating management practices, promoting the innovative development of Chinese think tanks, and promoting academic exchanges and management experience sharing between Chinese think tanks and academic experts and international top think tanks through multiple channels. Over the past ten years, CCG has been actively learning from cutting-edge ideas and management practices of international top think tanks, and has been exploring new ways to meet the needs of Chinese think tanks by sending visiting scholars, "going global" international exchange, organizing the annual China Global Think Tank Innovation Forum, and seminars for international top think tanks, publishing research works, and cooperating with international think tanks. CCG has developed into one of the leading non-governmental think tanks in China.
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Laurence Brahm: Sharing science, not political bashing, needed to fight COVID-19
The coronavirus crisis is a worldwide pandemic requiring collaboration across nations regardless of ideology, political system or religiosity. This is the time for global unity against a pandemic attack, no different than if all the nations of the world had to unite to fight an attack from outer space aliens. As science fiction as it sounds, the coronavirus global pandemic is something right out of science fiction and needs to be met head on with global cooperation, the sharing of information, science and experience to fight a common enemy. This is not the time to be fighting among ourselves.
March 20 , 2020 -
Laurence Brahm: Remember the ‘Big Short’? This time it’s bigger
In the movie The Big Short a fund manager takes a position against the rising American stock market, seeing the incubating subprime as a potential crisis that could bring down a house of cards. He effectively bets against the market, or rather he bets against America. Others are shocked and question his acumen. In the end, when the 2008 subprime crisis erupts into a global financial crisis, and America enters a historic recession, short of outright depression, the fund manager cashes in on his bet and makes a fortune as others lose their shirt.
March 14 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Step up int’l cooperation to curb the COVID-19 pandemic
China's COVID-19 pandemic is now effectively under control after a two-month battle, with an orderly resumption of business and production underway in most parts of the country. On March 10, China's President Xi Jingping arrived in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province, to inspect the effort in containing the virus. It is evident in his inspection that the central government of China attaches great importance and caution to the work of virus containment.
March 12 , 2020 -
Laurence Brahm: Western nations should try TCM against coronavirus
Traditional values and methods often prove effective when applied in modern circumstances. In combating novel coronavirus China adopted a combination of both, using both advanced medical technologies and big data on one hand, and classic methods of organization and response with herbal medicines on the other.
March 12 , 2020 -
Jay Dong: Revealing the puzzle pieces of COVID-19
There are a couple possibilities. One is false negative to begin with. The false negative can be due to different detection methods… And then the other one could be sample timing. As I mentioned, as the disease progresses, if you check one location [and it's] negative, but [it] may not mean all locations negative. So that's a false negative possibility.
March 12 , 2020
