Xi Jinping has been confirmed for a third term as general secretary of the Communist Party and head of the military. So, the question remains, “is…
China• Economy
China’s biggest property boom in human history has ended and is now turning into a bust and economic transformation
September 2022China’s property – driven growth model, which has powered the global economy for at least two decades, is in my opinion looking increasingly broken. Fixing it…
Shocks such as COVID-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine command not only our attention but also has a deep influence of reshaping the world from…
Manufacturing in my opinion matters a lot! While it has become increasingly automated and globalized over the past several decades, it still holds a special place…
There has been a stark shift in global economic thinking on austerity. That was strikingly evident at the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank…
China• Europe• Russia• US
All over the World, from the US to Europe to Russia to China the Vaccine Race is on – but a Vaccine will not fix our problem so fast…
November 2020The United States may be within months of a profound turning point in the country’s fight against the coronavirus: the first working vaccine. Demonstrating in less…
A small town in Germany gets a letter form US senators, threatening it with “crushing, legal and economic sanctions”. Professors at Oxford and Princeton tell students…
China• Coronavirus• US
To me, it is obvious – the Western World is blind towards Beijing!
October 2020The Trump administration banned the popular short-video app TikTok and WeChat in the United States, because their parent companies, ByteDance and Tencent, are both Chinese. Washington…
Trade wars rarely have victors. They do, however, sometimes have losers. And Donald Trump has definitely turned out to be a loser. That’s not the way…
With the daily headlines about the US and China imposing tariffs on merchandise in each other’s markets, you might get the impression that all that matters…