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Open Questions – SCMP interviews with global opinion leaders

In Open Questions – a new series of interviews with global opinion leaders – academics, scholars, economists and diplomats such as Richard Koo, Shen Zhihua and David Lampton discuss US-China relations, the Chinese economy, and more.

Updated: 11 Nov, 2024
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Open Questions | Economist Marc Uzan on how China can help reshape the global financial system

Marc Uzan, who has campaigned for changes to the global financial system for 30 years, says he remains optimistic about international cooperation despite the rise of unilateralism.

02 Sep, 2024
Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
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Open Questions | Nobel laureate Michael Spence takes long view on China, global supply chains, AI

Michael Spence, a winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, discusses the impact of the US-China rivalry on global trade and the future of China’s economy as supply chains shift.

12 Aug, 2024
Illustration: Victor Sanjinez Garcia
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Open Questions | This economist says China’s property oversupply is far from over. Here’s why

Chinese economist Mao Zhenhua, who was among the first to spot weaknesses in the country’s real estate sector, says the era of large-scale construction which fuelled the property crisis has ended.

05 Aug, 2024
Illustration: Victor Sanjinez Garcia
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Open Questions | Arthur Kroeber: why China decoupling is unlikely, and talk of reform incomplete

Founder of Gavekal Dragonomics says efforts to dislodge China from global supply chains are unlikely to succeed and discussions of ‘reform’ from outside the country often miss vital context.

12 Jul, 2024
 Illustration: Henry Wong
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Open Questions | China at risk of ‘far more serious’ recession than Japan 30 years ago: economist

Economist Richard Koo’s theories influenced Western policy decisions after the global financial crisis, and now he has strong words for Chinese policymakers on the need for fiscal stimulus to ward off a ‘balance-sheet recession’.

20 May, 2024
Illustration: Victor Sanjinez Garcia
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Open Questions | South China Sea flare-up risk ‘much higher’: Taiwan’s former unofficial US envoy

There is no easily identifiable off-ramp for Beijing and Manila on the Second Thomas Shoal, Douglas Paal, unofficial US representative to Taipei from 2002 to 2006, tells the Post.

06 May, 2024
Illustration: Victor Sanjinez
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Open Questions | Idea that China is peaking as a power a ‘dangerous assumption’: David Lampton

‘No government in its right mind’ would want China’s collapse, but what China and the US want from each other is unlikely to materialise ‘any time soon’, warns David Lampton, China watcher since the times of Deng Xiaoping.

22 Apr, 2024
Illustration: Victor Sanjinez
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Open Questions | ‘The magic of China’: still lots for foreign firms, top business leader says

What does one of the most influential business leaders think is the magic of China, and why could hubris rear its head if lessons are not learned from the perils and pitfalls of other economies?

08 Apr, 2024
Illustration: Kaliz Lee