Liu Zhiqin: Do US voters want `America first’ or `Trump first’?

We all know that President Donald Trump used the slogan of "America first" and won the election. The people were keen to see what the president would bring them with his policies. Now 200 days are long enough for a newly elected president to show his talent and his ability and let the world see what he can do for the US.

Ding Gang: Playing Indian separation card a poor choice

After the border standoff between China and India erupted, some Chinese scholars asked: Since India supports "Tibet independence" forces, why doesn`t China play the card of Indian separation?

Zhao Minghao: Will Bannon’s exit affect the US’ China policy?

US President Donald Trump is known for his unpredictability in his China policy. However, it is the unpredictability in US domestic politics that is now challenging China-US relations. The resignation of Trump`s chief strategist Steve Bannon has exposed the severe problems within the Trump administration. In the following months, China-US ties will come to a key period.

He Yafei: New world order is the inevitable trend

After decades of turbulence, the world order led by the United States has begun to change, with the 2008 global financial crisis possibly being the turning point and this year signaling a new beginning.
On the global front, the strength of developing countries has greatly increased. For example, China has been playing a greater role in global governance to build a "community of shared destiny", as propounded by President Xi Jinping.

Zhao Minghao: Politicizing trade will hurt Sino-US relationship

US President Donald Trump has given US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer a year to look into whether to launch an investigation into China`s trade law, policies and practices. The US plans to apply the Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which empowers the president to take trade measures against Chinese products such as lifting tariffs.

Liu Zongyi: New Delhi may disrupt BRICS Summit to blackmail Beijing

India orchestrated the standoff to not just guarantee the security of the Siliguri Corridor - India`s sensitive "chicken`s neck" connecting its central and northeast regions, but more importantly to jeopardize China`s Belt and Road initiative. In this way it can reverse its strategic disparity with China in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region and tighten its grip on small countries there.

Liu Ying: Preventing financial risks vital to economy

At the National Financial Work Conference last month, President Xi Jinping emphasized the need to prevent systemic financial risks, because finance is the core competitiveness of a country and financial security is a significant part of national security. The goal of financial work is to serve the real economy while preventing risks, for which financial reform is necessary.

He Yafei: A paradigm shift in global governance

We are living in a seemingly rudderless world full of uncertainty thanks to the simultaneous existence of globalization and anti-globalization sentiments. As a result, the paradigm of global governance has begun a momentous yet bifurcated shift, making adaptation difficult for countries, large and small. Yet countries have to understand and timely adapt to this shift, both individually and collectively.

Ding Gang: Belt and Road can’t be taken as a cash machine

News about the construction of the Kra Canal in southern Thailand appeared on Chinese media again. Thais with close connections to China are reportedly beating the drum and tying the construction with China`s Belt and Road initiative (BRI), through which they think they can acquire financial support for the construction.

Bian Yongzu: Finance must resume natural role in real economy

Domestically, economic downward pressure has been increasing, and financial risks that were formerly concealed by rapid economic growth have been emerging. Chaotic conditions exist in some areas: there is an overheated real estate industry with related nonperforming loans, local government debt is at risk of default, and Internet finance and shadow banks are putting intense pressure on systemic liquidity.

China-Argentina Think Tank Dialogue on Global Governance held in Buenos Aires

On the morning of August 4 in Argentina, guided by the China Public Diplomacy Association, co-sponsored by Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY) and the Argentine International Relations Committee, "Sino-Argentina Think Tank Global Governance Dialogue" was held in Buenos Aires.

Ding Gang: US using N.Korea issue to isolate China

North Korea`s latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile last week aggravated tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Using sanctions passed by the UN Security Council, the US has been pressing China`s neighboring countries to cut their economic ties with North Korea, stepping up its strategic control of China`s neighborhood.

“2017 Zhi-Xing China: China-U.S. University Student Leaders Academy” delegation visits RDCY

Seventeen-members of “2017 Zhi-Xing China: China-U.S. University Student Leaders Academy” delegation visited Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY) in the morning of July 28th, and take part in a lecture with the theme of “Global Governance Innovative Development & China-U.S.

John Ross: China`s economy growing three times as fast as US

Recent publication of U.S. GDP figures for the 2nd quarter means data is now available for comparison of China and America, the two largest economies, for the first half of this year.

Report : Beijing tops study of cashless living in cities

Beijing is the "smartest" city in China, according to a report on the cashless society released Monday.
The report was jointly published by Chinese tech giant Tencent, the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, and French market research firm Ipsos.

Zhao Minghao: Economic talks key to avoid Sino-US trade war

The first China-US Comprehensive Economic Dialogue (CED) concluded in Washington recently. Many Western commentators noted that it produced no major breakthroughs.

John Ross: China`s GDP data destroy `hard landing` myth again

Ding Gang: Revive border trade between China, Russia

Standing on the top of the monumental gate into Russia at the border city Manzhouli and looking north, I can see Zabaykalsk, the final stop of the Far Eastern Railway within Russia. The Russian town is also an important pivot of the Belt and Road initiative. Many of the freight rail lines linking Chinese cities with European countries that opened in the past year pass here.

Liu Zongyi: India’s attitude may hinder Tibet’s B&R involvement

A number of provinces and cities are eager to be involved in the "Belt and Road"(B&R) initiative, including Southwest China`s Tibet Autonomous Region. The opening-up of Tibet is in line with the general trend, but due to some historical and geopolitical factors, it has had to face some special challenges involving international strategy and security in the process of its development.

He Weiwen: Globalization Fights Its Way Forward

After tenacious efforts by all G20 members, with the US as a dissenting voice, the recent G20 Hamburg Summit maintained the basic course of the G20 on global governance for a prosperous global economy. This was achieved against a strong headwind of systemic de-globalization policies proposed by President Donald Trump of the US.