China Economic ReviewFor the first time in six years, Mr Xi and Mr Trump met up and Trump declared the score was 12 out of 10. The markets to some extent disagreed—Wall Street fell, although not solely on news of the meeting. So what really happened? In larger terms, not much. The fundamental positions, strengths and weaknesses […]
China’s system for the past 75 years has been built around a series of party meetings organised in a five-year cycle, and this week saw the 4th Plenum, or annual meeting, of the Central Committee of the 20th Party Congress. This meeting is where the most powerful people in the country come together to discuss and […]
The economy remains largely in a less than healthy state, the property market is facing another year at least of declines, exports are at some point going to start feeling the pain of the tariffs, and consumers just refuse to start spending like it’s 1999. There are two paths forward—one is to stress economic development, […]
We’re moving towards AGI (artificial general intelligence—capable of learning applying knowledge) and then ASI (artificial super intelligence—smarter than the whole human race combined) beyond it. Nobody knows how long it’s going to take. Some people say two or three years to AGI, some people say 10. But it seems to us that this impending change […]
The Lowy Institute is a think tank in Australia which does some good stuff on China. It just issued its Southeast Asia Influence Index, which now has China with an overall score of 65 out of 100, a one-point lead over its nearest rival, the United States, making it the “most influential power” in six […]