Opinion & Analysis

Johnson LI 2020-01-10 There have staged many large-scale wars in the Middle East since world II， among which some were triggered by internal religious, political and ethnic conflicts in combination with external support, while others resulted from direct intervention of US-led international forces. Since the end of the Cold War, the US approach to the Middle East has shifted from high-profile strategic expansion to an ongoing strategic contraction. However, whether by resorting to war or by sponsoring the Arab Spring, the United States has never fundamentally changed the geopolitical pattern in the Middle East.
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2019-12-10 On 9 December, the 2019 conference on “One Country, Two Systems” and the Basic Law was co-hosted by Tianda Institute, Bauhinia Magazine, and Hong Kong New Youth Energy Think Tank at the World Trade Centre in Hong Kong. By adopting the  “Guiding Principles of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee and the Future Development of Hong Kong” as theme of the Seminar, the participants reviewed achievements, experiences and problems in implementing “One Country, Two Systems” and the Basic Law in Hong Kong, having regard to the interpretation of the guiding principles of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee and their impact on the current situation and future governance of Hong Kong.
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SHI Lu 2019-07-07 Technology is what drives the contemporary economy. The economic, political and military competition between China and the United States is essentially the contest between the core technological strength of the two countries. At present the priority of China’s economic development is to incubate more high-tech enterprises through financial reform, a matter that has taken on more urgency as China’s technological weakness has been underscored in the US-China trade war.
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Alyssa AYRES 2019-01-25 The BRICS, a bloc comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has in its short existence rapidly expanded its diplomatic activities, demanded a louder voice on global economic and security forums for its members, and created brand new financial institutions. The member countries share a desire for the world to accord them larger roles, but despite their consensus on reforming the international order, two of the five—China and India—have some deep differences between them.
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Johnson LI 2018-10-26 US Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech at the Hudson Institute think tank on 4 October, which sent one signal and reflected three mindsets.
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LIN Feng 2018-07-10 The consensus in China’s corridors of power seems to be that China has to fight back in the trade war initiated by the United States, which is seen as part of Washington’s systematic efforts to contain China’s rise.
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SONG Lianghua 2017-08-01 The subprime mortgage crisis has led to a money-flooded world suffering from both financial overdevelopment and underdevelopment, which has increasingly exposed the financial sector, especially banking, to micro and unsystematic risks. Against this backdrop, the financial sector as the “blood” of the economy has to be involved in the supply-side structural reform. The reforms can never succeed without an optimised social investment and financing structure.
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SHOU Huisheng 2017-02-10 Donald Trump is an heir to “the other United States” dominated by a worldview that has been marginalised but never extinguished in the post-war era and that is now regaining its predominance in mainstream politics during this unique historical period. This is a change that is putting an end to the post-war world order of the past seven decades.
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Tianda Institute 2017-01-19 In the absence of a robust global governance system, governments have to address wealth inequality catalysed by globalisation on their own, which will naturally lead to the rise of protectionism and deglobalisation. The key to fixing the problem is to figure out how to play a part in the global governance system.
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DENG Haozhi 2016-12-23 The new round of real estate regulation measures launched by the central and local governments are designed to cool down the real estate market in the short term instead of bringing down the market in the long run. Governments don’t expect to reverse the current rising trend of the market, and no trend change is likely to happen in the real estate market in first-tier and some strong second-tier cities.
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