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Ascending China’s Beliefs on Trade, Economic Strategy

6 November 2017

Ascending China’s Beliefs on Trade, Economic Strategy




With President Trump scheduled to meet President Xi Jinping and other China leaders Wednesday  in Beijing, it is hard to know how much their discussions will focus on U.S.-China trade and economic policies. U.S. concerns about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and China’s military expansion in the South China Sea could dominate.

Whatever the outcome, modern ties between the world’s two largest economies are crucial for the global economy — and often misunderstood. Here is what top experts and analysts are saying about China’s beliefs about trade and economic policy today, and what’s at stake for the U.S. and the world.

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30 October 2017

How Will Xi Jinping Balance Market Forces, State Control?




Can China achieve Xi Jinping’s vision of becoming a “moderately prosperous society” if the world’s second largest economy continues to be dominated by state-owned, state-run companies?

Not by conventional models of markets and economic growth. Job security and self-dealing in China’s state-owned enterprises have been known to override what markets value more: innovation, risk-taking and reinvention.

President Xi’s 19th Party Congress two weeks ago called for stronger, bigger state companies along with more support for private firms. That may sound like a dead-end contradiction to capitalists in the West. But it prompts an intriguing question: can China’s state-owned enterprises become more efficient and profitable within China’s government-controlled economy?

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