China – EconomicsPublication - Tuesday, September 29, 2009
China and the Financial Crisis
This report, produced by a task force under the aegis of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and CIGI, assesses the impact of the global financial crisis on China. The report suggests that China has been perceived as relatively well insulated from the crisis, but along with other trade dependent countries outside the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) its integration into the global economy means exposure to the negative effects of the economic downturn.
Article - Wednesday, October 1, 2008
As Asia goes, so goes the world
Canada will have to be up to the challenge of dealing with a region of booming economies, proliferating nuclear weapons and political instability in the coming years
Article - Thursday, September 25, 2008
Why Asia should matter to Canadian voters
It is because Asia will intrude significantly on issues critical to Canada's welfare and security.
Article - Sunday, August 17, 2008
The dragon in the archipelago
The current Olympics has been China's 'coming out party', as well as the launch, as it were, of what some observers say will be the 'Asian century'.
Article - Friday, July 25, 2008
China's Knocking on the G8 Door
This year's G8 Summit at Toyako, Japan, was seen by most observers as a disappointment. The agreements that were reached lacked creativity and teeth, whether on climate change, Zimbabwe, development assistance, or the fuel and food crisis, the club seems to have run out of ideas.
Article - Monday, July 14, 2008
India and the new scramble for Africa
Africa's enormous natural resources, many of them lying fallow because of economic mismanagement or outright civil wars, are precisely what India needs.
Article - Monday, March 17, 2008
Recent increase in inflation: No cause for alarm
In recent months higher rates of inflation have been experienced by many countries. The rate of inflation has also increased in China, India and Russia.
Article - Friday, September 14, 2007
Asia’s strategic triangle: China-India-Japan
The three Asian giants can transform Asia into an area of peace by thinking creatively and cultivating relations based on complementary interests and realistic expectations rather than the deadweight of history or the baggage of naive idealism.
Article - Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Strategies for the G8
The G8 recently discussed energy, with the stage set by the German Green agenda. In taking these tortuous paths, it is useful to form a phalanx with peer groups, which is what the Indian Prime Minister did through solidarity with the Bricsam: Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa and Mexico.
Article - Sunday, March 25, 2007
China in Africa - a reliable friend?
China's red carpet treatment for 50 African heads of state last November, to commemorate five decades of Sino-African relations, as well as high-profile state visits by top Chinese officials including Chinese President Hu Jintao and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to dozens of African states in recent months, bears testimony to the continent's strategic importance for Beijing's economic and political growth strategies in a multi-polar, post cold war environment.