https://www.scmp.com/rss/322065/feed Zheng Yongnian is X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor and dean of the School of Public Policy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and director of the Institute for International Affairs, Qianhai. Professor Zheng is editor of the Asian Review of Political Economy and the China Policy Series. He has been selected as one of the World's Top 2% Scientists ranked by Stanford University and Elsevier in 2024 and 2025. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Zheng Yongnian Zheng Yongnian Several signals from this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos revealed a fundamental transformation in international politics. The forum laid bare the conclusion of a long era, yet provided little clarity about the coming one. The first signal is the collapse of the post-World War II order shaped by the West – and the West’s own unravelling with it. The West has used its dominance over global discourse to construct and impose concepts it favours on the non-Western world. Yet the West itself is... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3341715/tianxia-20-how-china-can-help-shape-next-world-order?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3341715/tianxia-20-how-china-can-help-shape-next-world-order?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:30:14 +0000 As the novel coronavirus outbreak evolves into a large-scale public health crisis, the Chinese government has at all levels changed its previously passive stance and under-reporting. China has mobilised an unprecedented level of resources to battle the epidemic. From central to local governments, civilians to the military, and officials to the people, no stone has been left unturned. Yet, Chinese society’s attitude towards the government’s efforts is startlingly divisive. On one hand, sceptics... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3049530/cope-coronavirus-outbreak-china-needs-less-politics-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3049530/cope-coronavirus-outbreak-china-needs-less-politics-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:45:11 +0000 If realised, a proposed South China common market encompassing 11 cities around the Pearl River bay area, including Hong Kong, would become a major economic region in the world. It would have a gross domestic product of US$1.3 trillion, twice that of the San Francisco Bay area and close to that of the New York Bay area, and the value of its foreign trade would total US$1.5 trillion, more than three times that of the Tokyo Bay area. With both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen stock markets playing a key... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2015816/how-eu-style-common-market-can-bring-hong-kong-and-taiwan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2015816/how-eu-style-common-market-can-bring-hong-kong-and-taiwan?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Sep 2016 08:46:55 +0000 The impact of Tsai Ing-wen’s election as Taiwan’s president will, of course, be profound. Tsai was actually in charge of cross-strait affairs in both the Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian administrations. She was the creator of the “one country on each side” concept when Lee was leader of Taiwan. Ideologically, Tsai is even more inclined towards independence than Chen; her ideology is probably closer to Lee’s. However, she will need to adjust her pro-independence stance after coming to power, even... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1903631/sooner-or-later-tsai-must-face-taiwans-political-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1903631/sooner-or-later-tsai-must-face-taiwans-political-and?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:38:36 +0000