Housing activity accounts for 29% of GDP, and Evergrande’s debt crisis is sign that more broadly things could soon change
Is China’s economic rise sustainable?
In a SOAS China Institute debate, four of us discussed if China’s economic rise is sustainable. Here are my conclusions
China’s Go-It-Alone Five-Year Plan
China’s new Five-Year Plan focuses on self-reliance more than any other since its reform and opening up began. But authoritarianism, top-down directives, and social control are likely to stifle innovation and ambitious development goals.
ECONOMICS, NATIONAL SECURITY, AND THE COMPETITION WITH CHINA
The intersect between economic and national security is spawning turbulence and volatility in Sino-US and Sino-western relations
China’s Bittersweet Recovery From COVID-19
Predictions of a “Chernobyl Moment” for the Chinese Communist Party in early 2020 have proven incorrect. China has won the bragging rights for recovery, but there is much more, and less to this than the narrative suggests
Has the pandemic emboldened or weakened China in the global system?
First published: LSE Ideas 03/11/2020
If the 2008 financial crisis and aftermath was the time China lost respect for the western economic model,