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Harvey Dzodin: Racism, bad governance hallmark of US
Just as we thought that things in the United States could not get any worse with more than 100,000 novel coronavirus deaths, the country is aflame and angry because of a spate of racist incidents, many committed by police officers who have rarely been punished for their crimes.
June 02 , 2020 -
Harvey Dzodin: Outbreak creates a phoenix and a flounder
Since I've spent more than half of my life in China and the United States and consider myself a political wonk, I frequently compare and contrast how the two countries handle their most pressing challenges.
May 27 , 2020 -
CCG new report calls to strengthen multi-level int’l cooperation
On April 5, 2020, the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) released the English version of the report “Strensgthen multi-level international cooperation to fight the pandemic”. The report summarized China’s experience in dealing with the outbreak and provided suggestions on global cooperation to fight the virus and its economic fallout. It drew on ongoing research and analysis of the unfolding outbreak and recent seminars CCG has hosted featuring Chinese and foreign experts.
April 05 , 2020 -
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
