South Asian academia has done a lot of research and had a lot of debates about China`s One Belt and One Road initiative. When Chinese scholars communicate with South Asian scholars, we found they still have some misunderstanding and misperception about the B&R initiative.
Tens of thousands took to the streets of Indonesian capital Jakarta in a massive demonstration against Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama on Friday last week after accusations of blasphemy. Clashes broke out between police and protesters, leaving one dead and several injured.
Chenchen Chen, a Research Fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, talks about the challenges of China`s reform of state-owned enterprises at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Asia & China programme.
Over the last few months, a number of events have exposed tensions on economic issues between China and Europe. Experts said China`s relations with the EU, its largest trading partner, are encountering some difficulties, but these issues are more like marital squabbles than outright divorce.
Recently, Chinese economists Justin Lin Yifu and Zhang Weiying held a debate on industrial policy. Upon reading Zhang`s subsequent article "Four Mistakes Justin Lin Yifu Made In Industrial Policy," I was surprised to find he had misread British and American history and developed an incorrect position on industrial policy.
Latvia became the first country in the Baltic Sea area on Friday to sign a memorandum of understanding to link up with China`s Belt and Road Initiative, during Premier Li Keqiang`s visit to the country.
Liu Zhiqin, a senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies of Renmin University of China, was interviewed by CCTV on deepening reform of China on Oct.27.
China won`t go backward. Why would the country return to a closed state after it has heavily benefited from integration into globalization? Given the reform and opening up China is undertaking, the country will not return to the era in which it was like a clamshell any more.
Liu Zhiqin, a senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies of Renmin University of China, was interviewed by CCTV on the falling of industrial profit growth on Sep.27.
The initiative, comprising the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, has brought together over 100 countries and international organizations in Asia, Europe and Africa, via land and maritime networks.
One of the world`s most challenging issues today is development. A platitude possibly, but it nevertheless embodies a number of political and diplomatic phenomena. They might seem quite strange looking in from the outside, but they are actually quite normal in nature.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the US, exchanges of people from the two countries have increasingly deepened, forming the basis of the Sino-US relations. Even after a recent furious row between the two sides, caused by the South China Sea conflicts, this basis has not changed and continues to consolidate, forming an important foundation for us to judge the trajectory of Sino-US relations.
BRICS nations, while achieving substantial benefits through their joint efforts, must also face up to the divergence in their interests, which has given rise to concerns that BRICS not only suffer from a lack of economic luster, but are also losing their shine in the political space.
a Washington-based NGO released a report criticizing the reaction of Chinese troop to the turmoil of South Sudan in July 2016. The report brought the deadly attack against the UN Peace Keeping Operation (PKO), which left two Chinese PKO soldiers dead and five wounded, back to the debates, as well as China`s role in peace and security operations in Africa.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will wrap up his four-day visit in China Friday. This is his first foreign trip outside the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) after assuming office. It thus marks a thaw in the Sino-Philippine relationship. In fact, the bold moves by Duterte can be an inspiration for other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, showing they all can find a better way of getting along with a rising China, rather than relying on Washington to confront Beijing.
Liu Zhiqin, a senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies of Renmin University of China, was interviewed by CCTV on challenges in China`s economy on Sep.20.
The visit, the first by a Chinese head of state to the South Asian country in three decades, heralds a new era for cooperation between the two countries, which established contact through ancient silk routes more than 2,000 years ago.
Tibet is an important part of the China-initiated "One Belt and One Road" initiative. Geographically, as a hub of critical value in connecting China and South Asia, the autonomous region is playing an increasingly important role in regional networks with the acceleration of India`s development and the boosting of Sino-Indian economic relations.
One effect of the unfolding of the international financial crisis since 2008 has been a beginning of an understanding of China`s economic policies among wider circles in the West.
The 11th Summit of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies concluded in Hangzhou on September 5, 2016. The G20 Leaders’ Communiqué, released after the meeting. G20 Leaders’ Summit this year has created a blueprint for medium and long-term development of the global economy.